New Processing CHIP for extreme gaming

[indira]

if its AMD i'll pass there way behind intel.

[Coldfire]

The newest generation GPUs are all pretty cool. They are focusing on reducing the power usage now it seems. You can get a highend GPU that consumes less than 100W in games now.

[Antipika]

The newest generation GPUs are all pretty cool. They are focusing on reducing the power usage now it seems. You can get a highend GPU that consumes less than 100W in games now.

It's more like the processing power increased way faster than what's games are demanding nowadays. If you compare the most demanding games (GPU wise) of 2012/Crysis 1 (2007) with the most powerful GPU today and 5 years ago, you will see that GPU processing power moved on way faster.

So it's easier to have a good graphic card with a low TDP.

We also had a leap in resolution between 2002 and 2007, with 1920x1080 becoming rapidly a new standard. But between 2007 and today, 1920x1080 is still widely used and enthusiasts with 2560x1600 (or more) are really a minority so the needed processing power didn't increased much.

[Rau]

If anything, that's a just an integrated 8800 or 45xx series.

[Coldfire]

It's more like the processing power increased way faster than what's games are demanding nowadays. If you compare the most demanding games (GPU wise) of 2012/Crysis 1 (2007) with the most powerful GPU today and 5 years ago, you will see that GPU processing power moved on way faster.

So it's easier to have a good graphic card with a low TDP.

Don't start making the mistake of thinking TDP means power usage :P
Over the years they always increased the clock speeds while decreasing the structure sizes. Now the clock speeds are at a point where putting them any higher would increase the power consumption a whole lot. Same thing with CPUs.

[Ferth]

Anyone else notice that the subtitles in that video had a lot of weird crap in it? Like they were written by someone who doesn't speak english but knows a bunch of english words...

"because the performance premix is yet swimming lesson rental so let's start." 00:43

[Alhanelem]

I'll wait until somebody I know builds a machine using one. I haven't been impressed with AMD processors (much less Radeon graphics) for a while now.

This is where we disagree, as I have preferred AMD for the last couple generations. Intel hardware is overpriced for what you get, even though they often do bring out the bleeding edge CPU first. AMD gives you a lot more for the money most of the time. I would only choose intel if money was no object and I wanted the bleedingest of bleeding edge.

The only thing Nvdia truly has going for it is the physics processing tech that it has a monopoly on (and the driving software is programmed not to allow it to run at full power on anything other than Nvidia/intel hardware even though it would work just fine on any hardware)

I'm more concerned with them dying after a few months like I hear happens to most of the non-Intel brands.

Samsung makes great SSDs, just as does intel. Samsung makes all the components in theirs themselves, unlike several other makers. Look around on newegg, you'll see the smallest percentages of 1-eggs on their products compared to any other brand. There are many brands that are really unreliable (which is ironic since solid state in most kinds of products means better reliability/durability), Intel and Samsung are both great most of the time- Intel costs a LOT more though.

[Rau]

Anyone else notice that the subtitles in that video had a lot of weird crap in it? Like they were written by someone who doesn't speak english but knows a bunch of english words...

"because the performance premix is yet swimming lesson rental so let's start." 00:43

That's youtube automatic captions. It guesses the word based on the sound they make.

[Ferth]

That's youtube automatic captions. It guesses the word based on the sound they make.

Ah, very silly.

[Molly_Millions]

This is where we disagree, as I have preferred AMD for the last couple generations. Intel hardware is overpriced for what you get, even though they often do bring out the bleeding edge CPU first. AMD gives you a lot more for the money most of the time. I would only choose intel if money was no object and I wanted the bleedingest of bleeding edge.

That price difference is what drove my choice initially. But around the same time I built that machine, I got a new i5 at work that hauled ass doing fairly simple things compared to my AMD, I reconsidered and built a new gaming rig using an i5 chip. I'm glad I did.