In the meantime we have the fan made projects.

Yeah, I know, nice way to bust some hopes.

Those Tesla/Quadro cards run that fast because Maxwell is rubish when it comes to computing, and they need every MHz to compensate that.

This is how I see the situation right now (Note that this is just my opinion, and I don't know as much as I would like):

Both professional and gamers want and ask for two basic things, MORE and FASTER, and Nvidia and AMD not only know it, but share that same vision and work in the same direction. What happened with the last gen is that they choose a different focus.

With Kepler and Maxwell Nvidia payed more attention the FASTER side of things, while AMD focused on the MORE aspect (probably because they needed the GPGPU capabilities of their GPU to compensate the poor performance of the CPUs in their APUs). And the truth is that it worked well for both camps, offering noticeable improvements over previous cards while remaining competitive with their main competitor.

Now, with Pascal and Polaris, I expect them to pay attention to the other side of things. Because of that, I believe that Nvidia will focus on MORE (and the Pascal diagram seems to point in that direction), and AMD will pay more attention to the FASTER aspect. And just like the last time, I expect to see noticeable improvement.

In any case, we'll find out in a couple of months.

Talking about videocards, there are two new rumors from Hardware Battle regarding AMD:

AMD Radeon Pro Duo launches on April 26th

http://videocardz.com/58903/amd-radeon-pro-duo-launches-on-april-26th

Radeon Pro Duo, the mixture of Radeon and FirePro series will launch later this month. According to HardwareBattle, Radeon Pro Duo will be available on April 26th, however review embargo may lift sooner. So in case you were wondering how does Pro Duo perform in games, you will be given extra time to consider spending $1499 on Fiji-based product before it reaches the shelves.

AMD Radeon R9 490X and R9 490 launches in June

http://videocardz.com/58894/amd-radeon-r9-490x-and-r9-490-launches-in-june

AMD’s Radeon 400 series will launch in June. The preview may happen at Computex which starts end of May. However the official launch will take place end of June. So we are probably looking at paper launch at Computex and hard launch with reviews later that month.

What’s more, Radeon R9 490X will be based on Polaris 10. It means there won’t be any Fiji to R9 490 rebranding. This leaves us with two possible scenarios. Either Fury X is faster than Radeon R9 490(X) Polaris 10, and Fury series will be offered alongside Radeon R9 490 line till Vega 10 becomes available, or Fury X is slower than Polaris 10 and it may be used for Radeon R9 480 series instead.

If the 480 series consist of Fiji rebrands (I kind of doubt it), I hope they do some tweaks and add a few extra ROPs, because Fiji performs bad at "low" resolutions.

Let's go with the news. By the way, I hate PCGamer's new look.

CONSORTIUM: THE TOWER GETS FIG CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/consortium-the-tower-gets-fig-crowdfunding-campaign/

After an unsuccessful Kickstarter campaign, Interdimensional Games has launched a new FIG crowdfunding campaign for Consortium: The Tower. Consortium: The Tower is said to be a sci-fi first-person immersive simulation, and the team aims to raise $300K in the next 34 days.

UMBRELLA CORPS – RESIDENT EVIL THIRD-PERSON MULTIPLAYER GAME – RELEASING ON JUNE 21ST

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/umbrella-corps-resident-evil-third-person-multiplayer-game-releasing-on-june-21st/

Capcom has released a new trailer for its upcoming Resident Evil third-person multiplayer game, Umbrella Corps, in which the Japanese publisher also confirmed the game’s release date. Umbrella Corps is powered by the Unity Engine, is coming on June 21st, and this brand new trailer focuses on character customization.

BATTLEFLEET GOTHIC: ARMADA – NEW TRAILER FOCUSES ON THE ELDAR FLEET

http://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/battlefleet-gothic-armada-new-trailer-focuses-on-the-eldar-fleet/

Focus Home Interactive has released a new trailer for Tindalos’ upcoming Unreal Engine 4-powered real-time strategy title, Battlefleet Gothic: Armada, that focuses on the Eldar fleet. The Eldar ships are said to be fast and highly manoeuvrable and their strategy is based around hit-and-run assaults.

>>Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O74nSsaZ9Q

A STEAM COMPETITOR IS TRYING TO GET ITS APP ONTO STEAM

http://www.pcgamer.com/a-steam-competitor-is-trying-to-get-its-app-onto-steam/

Fresh off the revelation that a guy got his game onto Steam without Valve knowing comes the news that the makers of a games marketplace are trying to get their app onto Steam (a somewhat well known games marketplace itself) using Steam Greenlight. That's... an interesting business plan? It's at least as interesting as the fact that the app arrived on Greenlight on April 1st, a day known for hilarious pranks, japes, jokes, and outright lies.

>>*facepalm*.

OVERWATCH BETA NOW HAS RANKED COMPETITIVE PLAY

http://www.pcgamer.com/overwatch-beta-now-has-ranked-competitive-play/

It's still only in beta, but Blizzard has already implemented a ranked competitive playlist in Overwatch. Rolled out earlier this week as part of a major new patch, Competitive Play can be accessed via the main 'Play' menu, but only if you've already reached level 25 in the regular, casual playlists. Players will compete "through a series of divisions and tiers in monthly seasons," the update reads.

FALLOUT 4 SURVIVAL MODE PATCHED TO STOP YOU EATING EVERYTHING

http://www.pcgamer.com/fallout-4-survival-mode-patched-to-stop-you-eating-everything/

Fallout 4's survival beta has been updated, bringing with it a change that might sway survival sceptics: you are no longer the Commonwealth's hungriest person. Sure, it's survival tradition to make you devour anything that doesn't run fast enough—Sugar Bombs, moles rats, Abraxo, Dogmeat—but it's far from immersive, not to mention annoying. I eat four times a day (five, if it's been a bad one), and I can get shopping delivered, so why, in a world of scarcity, does the Lone Wanderer eat like a sumo at Thanksgiving?

WATCH TOTAL WAR: WARHAMMER'S CHAOS WARRIORS IN ACTION

http://www.pcgamer.com/watch-total-war-warhammers-chaos-warriors-in-action/

Look upon the face of controversy and know madness! The forces of Chaos, sectioned off as a pre-order bonus for Total War: Warhammer to widespread anger, have been revealed. The 18-minute developer let's play introduces the Chaos armies as they battle against the Empire. Karl Franz and co. bring their own new units, such as the pegasus-mounted Light Wizard.

>>Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MYlmb3gip8

Mother of god... :o

Maxwell is perfectly fine in compute performance and in fact had better single precision performance ... 

It's double precision performance that's more of a concern with power consumption. The Tesla K40 was only 144MHz slower than the Titan Black but it was running at least 15 watts lower than the Titan Black too ... 

If a consumer version of the GP100 existed it would at BEST have 100MHz breathing room even if Nvidia disabled most of the FP64 units ...

I know tht single precision performance was good, but the double precision was terrible.

In any case, We'll find out soon.

More "info" about Pascal based cards

Nvidia Pascal graphics cards to ship in volume in July

http://hexus.net/tech/news/graphics/91937-nvidia-pascal-graphics-cards-ship-volume-july/
and
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20160408PD205.html

"According to industry insiders in Taiwan, Nvidia partners will show off gaming and enthusiast 'Pascal' GeForce GTX 1000 series graphics cards at Computex 2016. Companies such as ASUS, Gigabyte and MSI will all be hawking these next generation graphics cards, as you would expect. Volume shipments of Pascal-based graphics cards will begin quite shortly after the launch, PC gamers and enthusiasts will only have to wait until July, reports Taiwan's DigiTimes."

and from the Digitimes' article

"Meanwhile, AMD has prepared Polaris-based GPUs to compete against Nvidia's Pascal; however, the GPUs will be released later than Nvidia's Pascal and therefore the graphics card players' third-quarter performance will mainly be driven by demand for their Nvidia products."

Time for the news, the last piece of the week. Yay!

THE FAN LEGACY: METAL GEAR SOLID – DEMO NOW AVAILABLE

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/the-fan-legacy-metal-gear-solid-demo-now-available/

Metal Gear Solid fans, here is something for you. Yesterday, we informed you about The Fan Legacy: Metal Gear Solid – a first-person experience allowing fans the opportunity to revisit some of the most emblematic MGS levels. This project will go live this May, and you can download its demo right here, right now.

>>So far it only works on x64 systems, and you can download the demo from here.

NINTENDO KILLS 3D ZELDA TRIBUTE

http://www.pcgamer.com/nintendo-kills-3d-zelda-tribute/

Striking faster than a flock of keese, Nintendo has killed the ingenious Legend of Zelda tribute which turned the classic 3D in your browser. It was only three days ago we discovered it.

>>As expected.

ATTACK ON TITAN OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED FOR THE PC – NEW SCREENSHOTS & TRAILER

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/attack-on-titan-officially-announced-for-the-pc-new-screenshots-trailer/

KOEI TECMO revealed today that Attack on Titan will be coming to Steam on August 30th. Attack on Titan closely follows the riveting storyline of the anime’s first season and focuses on the exploits of various key characters, putting the player in a position to relive its most shocking, courageous and exhilarating moments.

>>Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE00fqbUIyw

FABLE LEGENDS MAY NOT BE DEAD AFTER ALL

http://www.pcgamer.com/fable-legends-may-not-be-dead-after-all/

Lionhead was unexpectedly closed down last month, and that meant the end of, among other things, the free-to-play action-RPG Fable Legends. But now it seems that the game may not be quite as dead and buried as it first appeared: MCV says that three sources at Lionhead have told it that staff members are being asked if they would like to continue working on the game as an independent studio.

EVERYBODY’S GONE TO THE RAPTURE – OFFICIAL PC REQUIREMENTS REVEALED

http://www.dsogaming.com/news/everybodys-gone-to-the-rapture-official-pc-requirements-revealed/

The official Steam store page for Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture has gone live, revealing the game’s PC requirements. PC gamers will need at least a 64-bit operating system, 4GB of RAM, a modern-day quad-core CPU and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti or an AMD Radeon HD 6850 GPU.

YOU CAN NOW STREAM PLAYSTATION 4 GAMES TO YOUR WINDOWS PC OR MAC

http://www.pcgamer.com/you-can-now-stream-playstation-4-games-to-your-windows-pc-or-mac/

It's no secret that our gaming platform of choice is the PC, but we get it: there are some fun games on the consoles, too. And now they're all playable on your PC, too. You can now stream games from the PS4 to a Windows system (or Mac, if that's what you're rocking).

BATTLEBORN OPEN BETA PRELOADING HAS BEGUN, SEASON PASS INFO REVEALED

http://www.pcgamer.com/battleborn-open-beta-preloading-has-begun-season-pass-info-revealed/

The Battleborn open beta is just under a week away, and accordingly, it's now available for preloading on Steam. Publisher 2K Games has also revealed a little bit about the Battleborn season pass, and released a new “Bootcamp” trailer that sets up the story of Solus and the Last Light Corporation, and showcases the different gameplay modes and characters.

KILLING FLOOR 2 GETS VERSUS MULTIPLAYER IN REVENGE OF THE ZEDS UPDATE

http://www.pcgamer.com/killing-floor-2-gets-versus-multiplayer-in-revenge-of-the-zeds-update/

There's a scene near the end of Land of the Dead where John Leguizamo, having been bitten by a zombie, is offered a quick, clean death before his humanity slips away. “Nah,” he says. “I've always wanted to see how the other half lives.” Thanks to Revenge of the Zeds, the latest update to the multiplayer Zed-slaughtering FPS Killing Floor 2, you'll be able to do the same—without all the unpleasantness of actually becoming a near-mindless, flesh-eating creature of nightmares.

SCI-FI FPS DESYNC WILL BE AT PAX EAST, SO HERE'S A NEW TRAILER

http://www.pcgamer.com/sci-fi-fps-desync-will-be-at-pax-east-so-heres-a-new-trailer/

Stylish FPS Desync is coming along just fine, if the new trailer embedded above is any indication. The tough, twitch-oriented shooter is due to release at some point this year through Adult Swim Games, but if you're keen to play it sooner, you'll need to get to PAX East later this month.

>>Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj0BTw3NaH0

And that's it. Have a nice weekend!

Nice idea: upgrading a dead Xbox 360 (RRoD) to a working "Xbox 960" (PC with GTX960).

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I also have a RRoD'ed 360 lying around...