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fatslob-:O said:

JEMC said:

If AMD can manage to get a 232mm² chip beating or coming close to the monsters that are their Fiji chips (at least Fury), it would be awesome! But that could bring some trouble with cooling and heat density.

 

Oh, and it's a few days old but somehow I missed this piece of news:

THE PC GAMING SHOW IS BACK FOR 2016

http://www.pcgamer.com/the-pc-gaming-show-is-back-in-2016/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX_inDdvsxE

It would be nice for AMD to come close to those monsters in such a small space for their sake and I don't think heat density should be much of an issue with the clocks that GPUs run at ... 

The Fury X was a missed opportunity with AMD betting on more compute and bandwidth. Their DX11 drivers ain't bad but they would have had a better deal with a bigger frontend to lower submission overhead and 5 geometry processing units and maybe 60 CUs ? 

As for the PC Gaming Show it was very horrible from what I heard and based on the announcements last year so I'm not particularly excited for this years showing ...

I do hope heat doesn't become a problem. After all, these cards were the "Artic Island" ones because of their focus on efficiency, but AMD will still have to come up with a good cooler and not the thing they used with the 290 series.

What I found odd about Fury was its performance disparity. At 1080p they are kind of bad performers, with the 980 coming close in many benches, and yet once resolution goes up their performance doesn't drop as much as the other cards. In any case, AMD says that GCN 4.0 brings lot of changes so we'll have to wait a bit more to see what they've done.

 

About the PC Gaming Show, it was something completely different than what we're used to see at E3, and at some point it was more like a late show kind of conference: one host interviewing many people in the industry with some videos of their work and some jokes.

It wasn't great or mind blowing, but it wasn't horrible either. That said, there are lots of ways to improve it even without changing the format: less talk about how great PC gaming is and more game demos running even if they are in the background would improve it a lot. Also, it would be great for all if both AMD and Nvidia took part on it and use the show to reveal some new hardware, but I can't see them both attending to the same show and not being the central point of it.

All I know is that I'll watch it again (not live as it will be too late over here).