Sizzling Sequels & Fijian Ferocity
admin | June 13th, 2015 - 2:51 pmNvidia-Ite – It’s last minute cover in case HBM doesn’t pay off. They’ve jumped ship too soon. They should have sat out first cycle and probably the second.
AMD-ite – Quit grasping at straws, there’s not the slightest connection. Search all you want, you’ll find no evidence of any repute that demonstrates 4 gigs doesn’t cut the candy. The R9s and 980s more than stand firm with optimum profiles applied in every noteworthy title. Even a 780 is enough 90% of the time. Choppy action at hyper resolutions is down the GPU itself showing wrinkles, a game’s heavy reliance on the CPU, inadequate system memory, buggy drivers, or plain poor coding. VRAM is an influential resource, though not nearly as pivotal as Nvidia has willed you to believe.
Nvidia-Ite –I suggest you research more thoroughly. A growing contingent venturing beyond 1080p are being forced to sacrifice any form of anti anti-aliasing and use customised pre-sets with lighting effects, draw distance, shadow detail and similar retinal spoils relegated to “medium”. Dying Light, Dragon Age Inquisition and Crysis 3 grind every 4 gig card into the dust at 4k. If rumours are accurate the Fiji’s fiery wrath will be ridden and weathered by a 980ti, never-mind a Titan X.
AMD-ite – Since when did 4k become gaming’s raison d’etre? Just because Nvidia’s been selling in harder than home insurance doesn’t mean its future is certain.
Nvidia-Ite – A rather different tune to the one you were singing a moment ago when you deemed it the Hawaii’s party piece.
AMD-ite – And so it shall be the Fiji’s but AMD never hyped 290s as mega High Def maestros. This was subsequently established by reviewers, most of whom used crossfire rigs because no single card at that time could provide a playable 4k experience. The Titan X was explicitly billed as being able to attain “acceptable” frame rates at 2160p, which in Nvidia doubletalk translated to a 40fps, meaning frequent sags below 20, how many seasoned veterans would be content with that?
Nvidia-ite – Seems reasonable to me.
AMD-ite – Indeed, and to all others plodding along with their monitors are still capped at 60hz, yet to reap the virtues of voluptuous variability. It’s ironic that you’ve overlooked another major attraction your God recently attempted to hijack. Did it ever occur to you that AMD might be targeting the Freesync fraternity? What’s wrong with 1080p and 1440p now that we can break the 60 barrier and still bask in buttery smoothness with not a tear shed or tear in sight.
Nvidia-Ite – Oh really? 1080p might excite those console commoners, but us? Role playing royalty, kings of eye-candy, we who revel at the spectacle of our colleague’s thunderstruck countenance and crestfallen slump as they lament the prospect of having to shuffle home and suffer Skyrim on their XBOX in plain old HD?
AMD-ite – Something tells me they’d be equally perturbed by the spectacular sluggishness of 30 fps in place of 130.
Nvidia-Ite – Those resolutions are CPU staggered, pick any video card from the last 5 years and chances are it would top the magic 100 with a stalled fan.
AMD-ite – Yet more astounding ignorance. Metro Last Light, Thief, Ryse: Son of Rome Assassin’s Creed Unity and The Witcher 3 all have a Titan X sweating to sustain an 80 average. A GPU can be persuaded to push plenty of pixels at the low end of the spectrum. Quiver in mortal terror at what the Fury could do by employing that bountiful bus to stimulate every last sliver of its frame buffer. We may witness 150fps across the board.
Nvidia-Ite – If that’s really what folks are after, why not simply grab a pair of 980s and clock them to cuckoo-land? Almost as easy on the environment, quicker and not much pricier.
AMD-Ite One Fury X will be all you need to brutalize Battlefield.
Nvidia-Ite And two will be all you need to start another cold war.
AMD-Ite – Keep up those clumsy witticisms, and in two weeks be you’ll receive the biggest punchline of your life. Where in the name of Unigine Heaven are you sourcing your 980s? $500 a piece is the current base rate. $1000 for two or $659 for a Fury X. I’d call that a pretty substantial.
Nvidia-Ite – You’d get 30% more pace.
AMD-ite – In that case cough up another $320, marry two Furies and you’ll climb another 30%
Nvidia-Ite – As soon as AMD gets round to releasing crossfire patches for games that SLI users completed six months earlier. Have you seen the leaked Firestrike Benchmark, the Fury barely shades a stock 980ti. The game’s over.
AMD-Ite Aren’t those the same results that show the Fury besting the Titan X in the Ultra test? Should I still be worried about it choking at 4K? Besides, basing your opinions on pre-launch exhibitions and benchmarks run with nascent beta drivers is like predicting the outcome of an F1 race after the first practice session. Cheap and childish gamesmanship.
Nvidia-Ite Well? What about those seeking double or triple delights? Take your pick. Three volcanic voltage vivisectionists tethered to awkward and ponderous cooling, crammed into a towering inferno and itching to erupt at 100 degrees within three seconds of Fur Mark or, a trio of whirring whispering artisans, over clocked to the bleeding edge of their trembling transistors and yet, as cool in the heat of Battlefield as a Camel beneath the sun’s anvil.
AMD-Ite. Your argument is as robust as a runt frame. That cooler is rated to dissipate 500 watts despite the Fury pulling nigh on half that on the ragged edge. If you believe for one fleeting polygon that this thing won’t over-clock like ten thousand Rolex watches on a swiss train in a time warp you’re delusional. AMD may as well have inscribed it with the words “crank me up or I will cry”.
Nvidia-Ite. If that really were the case perhaps you’d like to explain why they’ve hobbled the air cooled version. Lower core speed, less compute and texture units and 500 fewer stream processors. Looks like they struggled so much with yields that they only felt confident to stick the full fat chip under water. Frankly that’s a cop out. They literally bottled it.
AMD-Ite. What’s the matter, been rattled by some of the early projections? Those 4k scores for Tomb Raider and Far Cry got you running scared? Allow me to chase you down and compound your suffering. Here’s a link to a spellbinding showcase of every captivating feature and indispensable innovation the Fury will offer its visionary adopters along with a compendium of results from benchmarks conducted on two reference systems, with all relevant settings and specifications fully disclosed. Thirteen legitimate tests executed under typical conditions with approved drivers. No suspicious leaks from unverified sources, no sly selectivity or misleading interpretation, all data officially recorded by AMD and impartially published in unabridged form. Do my eyes deceive me, or is that a Fury whitewash?
Nvidia-Ite. The most skewed set of statistics since NATO last submitted a tax return. The title alone was enough to convince me I’d be reading something as impartial Che Guevara’s manifesto. Reviewer’s Guide??? Do we live in a dictatorship?
“Dear Mr. Mega Technophile of Transistor Times Weekly, we’d be most honoured if you’d review our product and will happily furnish you with a sample. Here is a list of popular applications we suggest you try and the hardware configurations we used to obtain the enclosed results. We believe these parameters to be the optimum foundation for demonstrating what the world’s greatest graphics card can deliver and advise that you are diligent in replicating them.
Should your figures deviate from ours, please double check every setting and component, if they still fail to correspond, either re-publish our results or the next parcel we send you will be ticking. Now we know what happened to poor old Kitguru.”
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