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Sorry, completely missed the bit where you said "for low power compute applications". My bad.
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I'm glad there is an actual application for the card, however I can only imagine how many people will buy it for gaming because it has 4gb vs a 2gb 960
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I'm having a bit of trouble with the graphics on my laptop. Is this the place to ask for help? I've got a Lenovo Y510p that has both Intel HD 4600 and nVidia 750m. My 3D settings in nVidia Control Panel are currently set to auto-select, which always chooses the integrated option. If I change this to select the 750m, any time I start a game I get errors about not being able to create/start the d3d device. I've tried re-installing the drivers for the 750m, both by uninstalling it in the Device Manager and letting it re-detect, and by downloading the latest drivers from nVidia. What else can I try to get things going?
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May 14, 2015 08:18
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GordonTheDeadFish posted:I'm having a bit of trouble with the graphics on my laptop. Is this the place to ask for help? Hmmm, have you tried disabling or uninstalling the Intel integrated graphics? If you can do that then after a restart it should be forced to use the 750m instead.
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May 14, 2015 08:50
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No, see, he has Optimus. Which means the discrete graphics chip has no displays connected to it. It must framebuffer copy to the integrated graphics to function.
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I've been living with a semi-broken (random flickering while browsing or whatever, artifacts in games) MSI R9 280x for a while now and I'm finally thinking of replacing it with an actual working nvidia card but I have some questions first. I have a 500W PSU right now and the minimum wattage requirements for this card seems to be 500W. Do you usually want the PSU to supply more than the minimum requirements, so that this might actually be causing my issues? Googling shows that my problems are rather common for this GPU so I'm not so sure about that myself, but it might be worth to try a beefier one since I think I need to get another PSU anyway if I plan to get a newer card. Also, as for the PSU; what is the "minimum" wattage I should aim for wrt GPU's? 700W or even higher? I don't need SLI/Crossfire, just to use whatever card safely and without issues.
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May 14, 2015 09:55
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netcat posted:I've been living with a semi-broken (random flickering while browsing or whatever, artifacts in games) MSI R9 280x for a while now and I'm finally thinking of replacing it with an actual working nvidia card but I have some questions first. It all depends on the quality of your power supply. Two PSU's rated for the same wattage may perform drastically differently because they're made with different designs and parts. The 80+ ratings get you some idea of how they'll perform but even those are no guarantee. This is a good basic guide for power supply sizing and purchasing from the PC Parts picking megathread where all your computer parts questions go: quote:17. How much wattage does my PSU need to have? I found this one for $20… Aim for the target wattage from that equation and then shop for an 80+ gold rated power supply made by Seasonic or a rebranded version of a seasonic like XFX. The Rosewill CAPSTONE is good too but no other rosewills are as good. Note that overclocking will add more power requirements to your CPU and GPU over their stock rated power use and it's not an insignificant amount.
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May 14, 2015 11:07
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Welp. posted:AMD will not bring the Fiji-based R9 390X flagship graphics card to Computex, but leave the unveiling for a later date and event in June.
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May 14, 2015 14:30
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May 14, 2015 14:38
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Goddamn it AMD, Pascals going to be out by early next year, the hell are you thinking? I guess maybe they're having issues with quality?
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Speculation on wccftech says it's because E3 is a gaming thing and computex will have a ton of other poo poo so they want to go for ~max hype~ or something. I dunno about issues with quality, E3 is like a week after computex, so it's unlikely they'd delay by just a week if that was the case? edit: http://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-r9-300-series-fiji-xt-release-date/ Or not E3. quote:AMD Radeon R9 300 series will be launching on the 18th of June while the Fiji XT GPU will be launching on the 24th of June 2015. Truga fucked around with this message at 14:50 on May 14, 2015 |
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Truga posted:Speculation on wccftech says it's because E3 is a gaming thing and computex will have a ton of other poo poo so they want to go for ~max hype~ or something. In that same article quote:The Fiji XT GPUs with HBM (memory) will be launching later – around the 24th of July. While a july 24 launch is more depressing, it makes more sense than a six day later launch date
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Not that I don't like the what-ifs, but isn't wccftech pretty much all about wild guessing?
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Yeah, it's in the tags: Hardware, Leak, Rumor But they seem to get poo poo right often enough.
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They just post pretty much every rumor they hear and simple law of averages means that they're going to be right at least some of the time.
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Krailor posted:They just post pretty much every rumor they hear and simple law of averages means that they're going to be right at least some of the time. That's what I was getting at, the whole "broken clock is right twice a day phenomenon". Although I'm not saying I don't enjoy reading the rumors, just seems like people are putting a tad too much faith in them? Or maybe I'm just misreading the seriousness of the posters thanks to "the internet"..
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Isn't AMD running an E3 show with PC gamer? It'd make sense to reveal their top end card there.
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E3 makes the most sense, tbh. But you never know these days, AMD also did their own super hype event for 290x/TrueAudio IIRC.
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The new cards will be released when enough vendors are interested in stocking them and writing the old ones off. You decide what newegg giving away loving GTA5 for free (on their own dime, not AMDs) with a 290 says about their inventory levels.
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I would be shocked if AMD wasn't covering some of that cost.
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Hrm looks like newegg has about 985 new R9 290's in stock total.  That seems like a lot but I have no idea if that is an unusually huge number or what. e:\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Yea always got a kick out of it myself. Just put 999 in the amount box and update quantity. AFAIK its accurate across all newegg's warehouses too. PC LOAD LETTER fucked around with this message at 02:47 on May 15, 2015 |
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PC LOAD LETTER posted:Hrm looks like newegg has about 985 new R9 290's in stock total. I did not realize this could be done at Newegg and this post is now my favorite one of the day
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PC LOAD LETTER posted:Hrm looks like newegg has about 985 new R9 290's in stock total. Some bitcoiner just got a semi.
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PC LOAD LETTER posted:Hrm looks like newegg has about 985 new R9 290's in stock total. This is amazing.
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PC LOAD LETTER posted:Hrm looks like newegg has about 985 new R9 290's in stock total. Noice. I hope Newegg never fixes this.
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I have to confess that the 290 seems like the AMD version of the 960 at this point. It's neither the most cost-effective choice (probably the 7950 which is edging down around $100 refurbed) nor the most powerful, it still eats quite a lot of power, and the 290X is running about $30 more. Prices will probably continue to spiral in order to clear inventory before the 300s come out. Why setlle on that? 295x2s are pushing down towards $470 or so with rebates and discounts, which is almost tempting given how the 300 series keeps getting pushed back. If rumors are true it'll just about equal the 390X's power at about 2/3 the cost, assuming your game runs in Crossfire. It's rumored that the Hawaii series have full DX12 Tier 3 capability, so they should even be usable as 8GB instead of 4GB Crossfire. Hopefully the DISCOUNT INFERNO will continue to intensify. Paul MaudDib fucked around with this message at 04:26 on May 15, 2015 |
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May 15, 2015 04:21
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Isn't the 290 roughly on par with the 970s, at a cheaper price but with worse thermals and OC ability?
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Pretty much. New price is getting to be pretty decent again. Used is where its at IMO so long as you can get one with a decent warranty. Picked one up a while ago for ~$200 with one of those triple fan HSF's and I'm happy.
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Ragingsheep posted:Isn't the 290 roughly on par with the 970s, at a cheaper price but with worse thermals and OC ability? Depends on the game and resolution - the higher the resolution the worse the 970 scales out, but yeah, the 290/x are somewhere around that performance range. I just mean that the 290 is a "neither here nor there" card - it's not the best value in the series, you don't get the consolation of having the most powerful arc furnace in the series, you're not saving much, and prices are dropping like a stone, so - much like the 960 vs the 970 - why would you buy the redheaded-stepchild middle card of the lineup? Paul MaudDib fucked around with this message at 06:38 on May 15, 2015 |
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May 15, 2015 04:49
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Yeah I dont know man, the R9 290 can frequently be had for around $200, that is quite a bit of savings compared to a 970...
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I think he means compared to 290x, which has now started to become cheaper. e: And 290x is pretty much on par with 970. Slightly worse at lower resolutions, same-same at 1440p+.
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What is the likelihood that the EVGA 980ti will become eligible to step-up to immediately upon release? I have approximately 65 days remaining...
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Paul MaudDib posted:Depends on the game and resolution - the higher the resolution the worse the 970 scales out, but yeah, the 290/x are somewhere around that performance range. I just mean that the 290 is a "neither here nor there" card - it's not the best value in the series, you don't get the consolation of having the most powerful arc furnace in the series, you're not saving much, and prices are dropping like a stone, so - much like the 960 vs the 970 - why would you buy the redheaded-stepchild middle card of the lineup? The 960 is basically a 980 cut in half, whereas a 290 is just a 290X with some shaders disabled and the same VRAM and memory bandwidth. The performance difference between the 960 and 970 is a lot larger than the difference between a 290 and a 290X. That said if the price difference is only $30 then I would just get the 290X, the price difference used to be much larger.
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 Oculus Rift final specs released! The final Rift is 2160x1200 @ 90hz and requires a GTX 970 or higher http://www.theverge.com/2015/5/15/8612027/oculus-rift-pc-recommended-specs
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Bleh Maestro posted:
So, before we've only heard of it using standard resolutions, and suddenly now it's using the exact same res and refresh as the HTC Vive? Most people were expecting the Oculus Rift to have a higher res.
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Who knows. Still, don't underestimate that 90hz takes 50% more power than 60hz to render, and VR isn't as forgiving to your equilibrium when you drop frames.
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HalloKitty posted:So, before we've only heard of it using standard resolutions, and suddenly now it's using the exact same res and refresh as the HTC Vive? Most people were expecting the Oculus Rift to have a higher res. Low latency requirements are driving high FPS requirements (90 Hz) which results in inevitable tradeoffs to try and get this to the layman, insofar as a layman can be considered to be someone with a modern mid-high end gaming PC. In the Oculus blog post (which incidentally has more details than that linked article and is a better read) they note: quote:On the raw rendering costs: a traditional 1080p game at 60Hz requires 124 million shaded pixels per second. In contrast, the Rift runs at 2160×1200 at 90Hz split over dual displays, consuming 233 million pixels per second. At the default eye-target scale, the Rift’s rendering requirements go much higher: around 400 million shaded pixels per second. This means that by raw rendering costs alone, a VR game will require approximately 3x the GPU power of 1080p rendering. It seems to me the best thing that could happen for VR hardware is for the adoption of a common adaptive sync standard by AMD and Nvidia and incorporating that into VR displays. That would, I think, allow the FPS requirements to be slackened for the same perceived VR experience, and resolution could be increased instead. I'm still gaming on a 1680x1050 monitor though so I'm not really bothered  repiv posted:HDMI means no adaptive sync support, seems like a missed opportunity There's no way Oculus would wade into the AMD vs. Nvidia standards war before it's settled and everyone can use a common standard. Agreed that it seems like there's a lot of potential ~synergy~ between the technologies though.
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