AMD exec discusses Radeon RX 480 Ashes of the Singularity demo

[Bagnaj97]

From http://www.wsj.com/articles/amd-pric...ket-1464725394 (stick the link into google and open it from there - they don't paywall hits through google):

"AMD said its new Radeon RX cards, certified for use in VR by HTC and Oculus VR, deliver performance equivalent to that of $500 graphics cards used for VR."
I took that to mean RX cards are certified by HTC and Oculus. Cards that are either not powerful enough or not certified for some other reason could still be R3/7/9. Or perhaps I'm reading too much into it.

[Biscuit]

Unless OFC it is RX460,RX470,RX480,etc??

The next gen is RX560,RX570,RX580,etc??

Right... so the whole exercise of introducing the R# only lasted 2 generations which were all based on pretty much the same technology, except the fury which didnt fit into that scheme anyway.

I feel as though I have to have a rant about this nonsense twice a year. There is definitely busy-bodies at tech companies in the nomenclature department and it drives me up the wall.

From http://www.wsj.com/articles/amd-pric...ket-1464725394 (stick the link into google and open it from there - they don't paywall hits through google):

"AMD said its new Radeon RX cards, certified for use in VR by HTC and Oculus VR, deliver performance equivalent to that of $500 graphics cards used for VR."
I took that to mean RX cards are certified by HTC and Oculus. Cards that are either not powerful enough or not certified for some other reason could still be R3/7/9. Or perhaps I'm reading too much into it.

Interesting thought, but I think thats just the way they have worded it... I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

[DanceswithUnix]

They pretty much only sold R7 and R9 cards before anyway, so ditching them to RX is only halving the number of prefixes.

[keithwalton]

Interesting that they used a haswell-e system, would the story be the same on one of their own systems or even a skylake system where the number of pci-e lanes will be a limited.

X99 boards are pricey never mind the 40 lane cpu,

[kalniel]

Interesting that they used a haswell-e system, would the story be the same on one of their own systems or even a skylake system where the number of pci-e lanes will be a limited.

There's no real limitation on dual GPU PCI-E lanes for skylake or AMD systems.

[Millennium]

I really like the price point for this card. If only the games and driver updates could keep up it would be a solid price performance winner.

[canopus72]

What is the difference between multi-adapter mode crossfireX?.

[DanceswithUnix]

What is the difference between multi-adapter mode crossfireX?.

In DX12 a game can see a pair of GPUs and drive the rendering itself.

In crossfire the graphics driver makes the pair of cards appear as a single resource and tries to split work up between them behind the scenes.

[jigger]

Very impressive but also slightly confusing 4K results. Assuming this true the RX 480 seems to punch well above it's price tag.

http://www.ashesofthesingularity.com...b-d49c93a4572e

[kalniel]

Very impressive but also slightly confusing 4K results. Assuming this true the RX 480 seems to punch well above it's price tag.

http://www.ashesofthesingularity.com...b-d49c93a4572e

Hard to tell too much since some of the options are turned down.

[jigger]

I'm not sure how hard the game is on graphics cards at those settings, but for a £165-£200 it seems impressive to be able to run that game at 4K with decent settings.