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AnthonyW86 on 31 March 2013
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fillet said:
AnthonyW86 said:
fillet said:
 


You are entirely correct here. My apologies for talking nonsense about the power consumption bit.

No problem, Nvidia made a interesting step with Titan indeed but it did end up using more power than the GTX 680. I think this is the reason why AMD has passed on introducing an entirely new card this time, there is simply not a big enough step to take without a rise in power consumption.

:)

The TITAN is an interesting card indeed, purely because it was basically a shock release, rewind 4-5 months and everyone was expecting the next gen desktop series of the 8000 series from AMD (not the mobile/desktop rebadges of the 7000 series they have released) only about 2-3 months ago did we hear anything about this TITAN.

So in effect it's kinda a free lunch for those who are interested at the ridiculous price point.

I believe they've had this thing on the go for a long time in the Tesla based pro end GPUs and that's where the tech comes from, to combat theb Ghz edition 7970s from AMD which nvidia didn't anticipate beating the GTX680s in many tasks.

Anyway, sorry again about before, I thought you were just another "nvidia suck how dare they say horrible things" person, when they're just covering themselves. Sure it's not nice or respectable, but it's not exactly evil.

Indeed Titan's architecture wasn't even designed for desktop graphics in the first place, so kudos to Nvidia for getting it done. I think Nvidia is great(except for pushing 3dfx out of the market and buying them). I've actually owned Nvidia cards for years, Geforce 2 MX, Geforce 4 ti4200, 6800 gt, 7900 gt(witch i killed with a Vmod) and a 8800gt. I actually sold the 8800gt just to buy one back a year later because it still ran all the games great. I finally replaced that 8800 gt with a HD5850 when Sapphire build a seris of cards to get rid of the chips when the HD6850 launched and it cost me 100 euro's brand new. Even today you can't get that much performance from a 100 euro card.

ethomaz said:
Jega said:

I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this but I saw a couple times that the xbox 720 has a dual gpu.


http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/games/1296739/xbox-720-release-date-specs-news-and-rumours

PROCESSOR AND GRAPHICS - updated 26/03/13

As with the PS4, the Xbox 720 looks certain to use AMD graphics hardware. VG247 reports that multiple sources have confirmed to it that the console will use two GPUs in tandem, it goes on to say that these won't be used in the usual 'CrossFire' configuration seen in PCs. We're not sure about all this as complex hardware architectures have been the failing of many consoles in the past, as a simple architecture is easier for developers to get to grips with quickly.

In any case it's the RAM that really matters if the ps4 is using 8 gigs of memory, you can bet xbox 720 will at least match that.

The dual-gpu rumor is a late 2011 already proved false... no Durango devkit had dual-gpu... about the RAM the Durango always have 8GB and Sony did match that specs.

Indeed, that rumor came to be because of the APU design and they were expecting it to have a discrete powerfull gpu aside one combined with the cpu. Nobody expecting AMD to be able to fit a 100w gpu in an APU design. Also using one chip is much cheaper then using two.