Pemalite said:
JEMC said:
I've already been corrected, but thanks.
But, and this is my personal opinion, I wouldn't go with less than a 7970/280X for a gaming PC/Steam Machine right now. I know that the 270 is faster and more powerful than the chips found in consoles, but even without Windows and with Mantle devs will still get more juice from those console chips, so I'm affraid a 270 won't be enough to keep pushing 1080p without lowering details in 3 or 4 years, whereas with a 280 that won't happen until much, much later. Maybe when talk about new consoles start again.
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These boxes will be using a light weight Linux OS, probably lighter than the ones in the consoles in terms of memory usage.
Plus, Mantle will provide low overheads.
If you were talking strictly Windows+Direct X that would be true due to the Draw Cells limiting performance greatly.
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What can I say. I'm not sold on the promise of Mantle, mostly because right now it's only that, a promise.
Also, having a bit of overhead is always a good thing in my book.
Btw, anyone knows when will the Steam Machines will launch? Have Valve send the 300 prototypes already?
Please excuse my bad English.
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