Sizzling Sequels & Fijian Ferocity
admin | June 13th, 2015 - 2:51 pmAMD-Ite. You’re more shaken than a maraca in a tumble dryer.
Nvidia-Ite. I’m not in the least concerned. AMD has always played to a gallery stat junkies who harvest their results from five minute intervals of benchmarks and time demos. Remember the 290X? Glowing reports from glory hunting hacks praising how it trumped the Titan for half the cash only for it to later emerge that several crucial sources had relied on hand picked samples that maintained higher frequencies than retail parts. Note the guileful spiel on those slides. “Typical board power. Up to 1050mhz. Doesn’t any of that ring a hells’ bell? Why power it via dual 8 pin PCI-E sockets if it only sucks 300 watts.
AMD-Ite. Nothing devious their. Just another tantalizing goad, a way of saying to tweakers ; “If you don’t push the Fury to it’s incandescent peak, you’re a craven coward who’d be better off going green, so to speak. It’s rated to absorb 375 watts, that’s headroom of 100 watts to play with, somewhat more generous than the miserly 25 a Maxwell gives you before its draconian limiters deny an over-clockers freedom.
Nvidia-Ite. For your sake I’m relieved. It’ll need every one of them if it wants to compete with beasts like this.
10% up on a Titan X out of the traps with 150mhz left in the tank, and that’s on AIR.
AMD-Ite. HA! So the fact that Nvidia were lazy, arrogant and presumptuous enough to recycle the same cooler for the fifth time in succession means you now have to rely on after-market boards to salvage a scrap of respect, I wish I’d sold tickets for this! What about the other bonuses you’ve glossed so smoothly over? The real-time VU with DIP definable LEDs.
Nvidia-Ite. I have a prettier one on my mixing desk.
AMD-Ite. Asynchronous compute engines, an exclusive feature of GCN’s architecture guaranteeing the most efficient and reliable Direct X 12 experience anybody could envisage.
Nvidia-Ite. This sounds hauntingly familiar.
AMD-Ite. They can harness the API’s unique facility to execute sophisticated graphical routines and shading operations in parallel, minimizing latency, while the host system’s workload will be more evenly distributed across multi-core CPUs, removing the bottleneck DX11 precipitated when one core became overly utilized. Coders and developers can now evolve their expertise and enjoy an unfettered line of communication with the machinery, allocating the hardware’s resources more practically and with immeasurably greater intuition.
Nvidia-Ite. More political guff. The industry has been harping on about CPU optimization for over half a decade and still, the most strenuous games barely bother a quad core chip. You’d think from that sickening self-publicising that AMD had invented ASYNC Shaders. The Maxwell can process simultaneous tasks just as effectively and supports every DX 12.1 function. Next please.
AMD-Ite. VSR, Virtual super resolution to enhance visual detail on non-Ultra HD monitors. Images are rendered at 2160p then scaled down in accordance with the display’s innate dimensions resulting in a quasi anti-aliasing effect indistinguishable from the real thing and rivalling the quality of native 4k content at negligible expense to performance.
Nvidia-Ite. So essentially identical to Dynamic super resolution. Nice work on the re-brand, a whole words’ worth of difference. Next.
AMD-Ite. Target Frame Rate Control for the user to nominate a specific frame rate which the card will then dynamically enforce by attenuating the large spikes on load screens and menus or during less intensive activity, hence eliminating needless power consumption. Supremely flexible over clocking providing a means to achieve the definitive balance between thermals, acoustics and efficiency via adjusting the target GPU temperature, fan speed, desired power usage and core frequency up to 50 and 90% over their stock values with the finest granularity and absolutely no TDP limit in sight.
Nvidia-Ite. Oh, spare me any more of this puerile promotional piffle and let’s see some genuine numbers. My friend, we both know where this is going. Journalistic jubilation followed by gradual and grim realisation that when submitted to impartial scrutiny under the merciless conditions that only a certified endurance gamer can induce, the Fury will flounder and fade. Let’s see exactly how willing it is to over-clock after an hour of Dying Light, let’s see how much VRAM is left half way through an evening of GTA 5 and how many how watts it gorges in an Elder Scrolls weekend. The core will crumble, the frame buffer will fold while the Titan and the Ti tear through textural martyrdom without dropping a megahertz.
AMD-Ite. Right. I think that’s the last toy out of the pram. You have one day left to dream.
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The Fiji’s genetics were nothing if not radical, though our tenacious turquoise apologist was partially correct. The fact Redbead had seen fit to imbue the supreme incarnation of his masterpiece with aquatic instincts at birth meant he had all but conceded the struggle for carbon credits and would rely on raw pace to retain his ruby legions, recruit free agents, including five people who refused to part with their Voodoo 5 6000, and force betrayed acolytes wandering the perimeters of lush grassy meadows to submit to the wicked wonders of a Scarlett wilderness.
Furthermore, his decision to elevate memory to unprecedented heights at a considerable cost to its volume was as reckless as a gambler tossing his last quarter on 44 red in raging defiance of luckless misery. If his timing was perfect, 4 gigs would ferry his fervent followers through the next textural tempest, but if wasn’t, and that little white marble rattled into the jaws of a gaping green zero, a triumphant emerald casino would collect. I wonder how he got on?
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