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HoloDust on 11 July 2013
zarx said:
HoloDust said:
Intel - I was dead serious in my previous post.

Next Xeon Phi will deliver 3TFLOPS of DP peak performance, 14-16 GFLOPS/W - Maxwell will have 8-16GFLOPS/W.
I think they will eventually target streaming gaming once it switches to casting/tracing - from everything I've read I was under impression that working with Xeon Phi is way easier than with GPGPUs, and if they have similar performance I can see why they might be obvious the choice.


Knights landing isn't due for release until 2015/16, Maxwell is 2014/15. Nvidia is much better positioned for a streaming path-traced gaming future thanks to Nvidia Grid and their partnership with Otoy anyway. As they are the only people I know of currently developing a real-time cload based path-tracing engine http://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=29544.

Indeed, nVidia is pushing hard, but Intel seems to be fixated on ray-tracing for quite some time now.

I don't expect this to happen in Maxwell/KNL era, but it seems they are closing the gap really fast. I find this two articles very interesting when it comes to Xeon Phi:

http://semiaccurate.com/2012/11/12/what-does-it-take-to-code-for-a-xeon-phi/

http://semiaccurate.com/2012/11/13/what-will-intel-xeon-phi-do-to-the-gpgpu-market/



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ethomaz on 11 July 2013

Both are toying... they expected to move to 22 or 20nm but neither TSMC or GLOBALFOUNDRIES moved ahead... what I can say they have issues with 28nm yet after all nobody is Intel.

While that nVidia and AMD will continue to recycle two years old chips lol.



Viper1 on 11 July 2013
CGI-Quality said:

Oh, I knew this (says it in the source, too ). What I'm saying is, while V. Islands will be great, I'm going to wait on the stronger tech.

Prepare to place yourself into a permanent state of perpetuity.



The rEVOLution is not being televised

mibuokami on 13 July 2013
disolitude said:
haxxiy said:

Leave AMD alone you sick bullies!

But yeah, Nvidia has been the comfortable market leader for quite some time now, though I don't think it interfered with their roadmap. TSMC would be a much more likely "culprit" considering they're responsible for the manufacturing processes and thus yields, wafer density etc.

Next year will be interesting to see anyways. All these >300W TDP cards!

Hey don't kill the messenger... I tried to support AMD. :)

I switched my GTX 670s to dual 7950s hen I changed my 3570k rig to an FX-8350. 

Very happy with the FX8350, but the 7950s are not doing it for me. First crossfire setup and first time I've ever noticed microstuttering lol...never had problems with my previous 3 SLI setups. 

I burst a pimple at crossfire support. For PC gaming enthusiastic, a big factor in choosing Nvidia is their driver, in particular for SLI which blows AMD out of the water... ATI has a very special place in my heart but they really need to step up their game for mutliple GPU support to earn back my dollars.




Shido on 14 July 2013
disolitude said:
haxxiy said:

Leave AMD alone you sick bullies!

But yeah, Nvidia has been the comfortable market leader for quite some time now, though I don't think it interfered with their roadmap. TSMC would be a much more likely "culprit" considering they're responsible for the manufacturing processes and thus yields, wafer density etc.

Next year will be interesting to see anyways. All these >300W TDP cards!

Hey don't kill the messenger... I tried to support AMD. :)

I switched my GTX 670s to dual 7950s hen I changed my 3570k rig to an FX-8350. 

Very happy with the FX8350, but the 7950s are not doing it for me. First crossfire setup and first time I've ever noticed microstuttering lol...never had problems with my previous 3 SLI setups. 


I havent used it myself(but soon I will have my 7950 Xfire setup) but you can use Radeon pro app, It apparently helps  A LOT with the Crossfire microstuttering. Search for it, maybe it will help you. Post results!



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