No, no particular technical difficulty, just another step in gradually falling prices. We have seen drives hit $0.39/GB as well with standard Amazon.com pricing. The Crucial M550 (a bit faster) is at $407 for 1TB model today, for example: http://amzn.to/1kBpIs1
As far as I know no other article anywhere has published what problems actually exist with Eyefinity, as they are very different than the problems that exist with CrossFire on single display configurations.
In GPU terms, yes. The shaders and cores are very different between AMD and NVIDIA (that's why AMD can have 1536 and compete with a HD 7970 with 2048 shaders).
It may be too late for this post, but Allyn over at pcper.com posted up some analysis of this article and that it leaves out important data:
Max data write speed did not take into account 8/10 encoding, meaning 6Gb/sec = 600MB/sec, not 750MB/sec. The flash *page* size (8KB) and block sizes (2MB) chosen more closely resemble that of MLC parts (not SLC – see below for why this is important). The paper makes no reference to Write Amplification.
"Write Amplification would be a factor of 500, meaning the flash memory is cycled at 500x the rate calculated in the paper." Gulp.
"just fine" differs from person to person. No, GTX 580s aren't required to play PC games and most of the time the lower cost GTX 460/HD 6850s are fine. But sometimes more power is just better.
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Today's launch is for reviews, with performance results, etc. That previous post was just the "announcement".
No, no particular technical difficulty, just another step in gradually falling prices. We have seen drives hit $0.39/GB as well with standard Amazon.com pricing. The Crucial M550 (a bit faster) is at $407 for 1TB model today, for example: http://amzn.to/1kBpIs1
Good drive, for sure, but keep in mind that the Crucial MX100 broke that barrier at its launch in June (and at $0.44/GB).
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/S...
That was a paper launch announcement. This post is a review with benchmarks and overclocking.
As far as I know no other article anywhere has published what problems actually exist with Eyefinity, as they are very different than the problems that exist with CrossFire on single display configurations.
Maybe if you read the story, you'll find the "driver" and "version" are mentioned for both AMD and NVIDIA setups.
This is not a "bug" bug a substantial issue with advertised features.
In GPU terms, yes. The shaders and cores are very different between AMD and NVIDIA (that's why AMD can have 1536 and compete with a HD 7970 with 2048 shaders).
It may be too late for this post, but Allyn over at pcper.com posted up some analysis of this article and that it leaves out important data:
Max data write speed did not take into account 8/10 encoding, meaning 6Gb/sec = 600MB/sec, not 750MB/sec.
The flash *page* size (8KB) and block sizes (2MB) chosen more closely resemble that of MLC parts (not SLC – see below for why this is important).
The paper makes no reference to Write Amplification.
"Write Amplification would be a factor of 500, meaning the flash memory is cycled at 500x the rate calculated in the paper." Gulp.
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Editorial/Taking-Accurate-Look-SSD-Write-Endurance
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Processors/Intel-Sandy-Bridge-E-Review-Core-i7-3960X-and-X79-Chipset-Tested
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011/11/14/intel_core_i73960x_sandy_bridge_e_processor_review
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1773/1/
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5091/intel-core-i7-3960x-sandy-bridge-e-review-keeping-the-high-end-alive
This post over at pcper.com links to a good story on the Kal El "companion" core: http://www.pcper.com/news/Mobile/ASUS-Unveils-Prime-World%E2%80%99s-First-Quad-Core-Android-Tablet
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/NVIDIA-Reveals-5th-CPU-Core-Upcoming-Kal-El-Tegra-SoC
I think he has come full circle on that though and thinks ray TRACING will win. Did you listen to the full interview?
Check this update out: http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/Bitcoin-Mining-Update-Power-Usage-Costs-Across-United-States
We did a follow up based on finding out how much it costs to run these Bitcoin operations and looked at retail energy prices across the US! I think the results are a big hindrance for mining... http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Graphics-Cards/Bitcoin-Mining-Update-Power-Usage-Costs-Across-United-States
Yeah, that's my bad. Sorry! I sent an email off to /. to correct it.
Agreed! The more people read about these products the better informed. A couple more:
bit-tech: http://bit-tech.net/hardware/2011/01/03/intel-sandy-bridge-review/1
Neoseeker: http://neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/Intel_i7_2600K_Intel_i5_2500K
"just fine" differs from person to person. No, GTX 580s aren't required to play PC games and most of the time the lower cost GTX 460/HD 6850s are fine. But sometimes more power is just better.
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=1034
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/11/09/nvidia_geforce_gtx_580_video_card_review
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4008/nvidias-geforce-gtx-580
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1461/1/
http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/19934
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2010/11/09/nvidia-geforce-gtx-580-review/1
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=954
This review also has a page that attempts to compare the new GF104 architecture on a clock per clock basis with the original GF100: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=954&type=expert&pid=12
This article also compares the ARES to a pair of HD 5870s and you are mostly correct:
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=953
Keep in mind that with 2GB cards you are actually only saving about $200 by NOT using the ARES.
PCPer review seems to like them a lot too: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=924
Another review here points to slightly more of a performance edge to the GTX 480 and 470:
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=888
It starts at time stamp about 3:00
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=868&type=expert&pid=1
Uhh....yah. It does use a profiling system.
That is detailed in the article. :)
In the pcper.com video on the first page there is at least some homage to the Transformers that starts right around the 2:30 mark...
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=868
From what I am told that is coming sooner than you might think. Expect to see something by April!