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fatslob-:O said:

JEMC said:

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.

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

AMD has hopes that more games will become compute limited to give them the advantage in the long run and that's exactly what their aiming to do with support for asynchronous compute shaders just like how console APIs expose support for that kind of feature ... 

I'm curious as to how much of an improvement it will be with the changes they've made to the command processor, geometry related fixed function units, and the shader instruction pre-fetching ... 

That's one of the reasons because I like AMD, they launch products that not only cover today's necessities, but also the ones that will come in the future. Maybe that's why their 7970/280X is still a very capable card today even thought it launched three or four years ago.

But, because everything has its cons, that forward thinking can also backfire on them. The best example that I can think of is how they had a tesselator unit years before any game used it and, when engines and games started using it, they did so with a different method that made those old cards useless for tesselation.   

fatslob-:O said:

JEMC said:

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).

That would sound great ... 

As for me I don't do E3 so I base it on what it announced and what content they show for it ...

I always find E3 to be an interesting time because, if nothing else, is a clear sign of how healthy is the industry.

And well, this year could be fun to watch with Nintendo having new hardware and AMD (and hopefully Nvidia) using the conference to reveal at least part of its cards and plans.