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    AMD Zen Performance Preview

    Agreed. I am pretty sure Intel can pull off faster CPUs than they have on the market, similarly to what they did with Coppermine and were holding well till Prescott fiasco. As a very basic thing, about half of 6700K die is GPU, so Intel certainly can release Kaby Lake 8-core for 170/270...
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    AMD & NVIDIA GPU VR Performance in Trials on Tatooine @ [H]

    This is second brutal AMD fail in a row in UE4. I wonder, what grief has Sweeney with AMD, that Epic ignores AMD so much? But then, I will be devil's advocate here: minimum specs for Rift and Vive are GTX 970 AND Radeon 290. And they are here for a reason - so that users know they will have...
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    AMD and NVIDIA GPU Vive VR Performance in Raw Data @ [H]

    This kind of reminds me of early AotS benchmarks. Half-a-year prior to release, 1060 being like 2x as fast as 480 and faster than FuryX - makes no sense without using SMP. With AotS, by release, nVidia closed the performance gap to where it roughly should be. The difference might be that this...
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    Am I better off with 1070 strix or 480+ free syn monitor

    I was making similar decision half-a-year ago, only with 970 vs. 380. Oh, and I asked before I made the purchase ;). I went for 970, as the performance gap is so high, that it overpowers benefits of FreeSync. Even with 1080p, 970 does not guarantee minimum framerates over 60 in latest games...
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    Steam Hardware Survey updated with GPUs

    Consoles are in separate segment (Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom). And I counted only relevant segment revenue (Computing and Graphics). Unfortunately for us, AMD lumps together CPUs, APUs and GPUs for consumer and professional markets in on segment. If you own AMD share(s) (one is...
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    Steam Hardware Survey updated with GPUs

    Actually, when I compared financials ... It does not seem to be like it. Q4/15 AMD (ends 26 Dec 2015) vs Q4/16 nVidia (ends 25 January 2016), so very comparable periods. I will make a few assumptions: nVidia: Taking only Gaming market revenue AMD: Taking 50% of Computing and Graphics Revenue...
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    Max of $350 to spend on a new GPU...spend it for me

    With $350, I would: - Wait for custom AIB 480s and 1060s and pick between them. That will probably ease your wallet by some $270-300 - Use rest of cash for additional 8GB RAM - Or up the ante and go for 1070
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    Official NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Announcement @ [H]

    I would love to see 1060 vs. 480 in custom AIB face-off, like Asus Strix 1060 vs. 480, MSI Gaming, Gigabyte or whoever gives both vendors equal chance.
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    Official NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 Announcement @ [H]

    8GB vs. 6GB is largely discussion about textures. As long as you have enough VRAM, you can typically improve texture quality with minimum performance impact. RoTR specifically cannot run well with less than 6GB with the highest texture setting. This applies to 1080p as well. In order to have...
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    AMD confirms Power Issue for RX 480, blames memory bus, will patch

    It seems to me that nVidia is going for the kill ... with AMD getting cornered 3dfx style. They would probably get more profits from pushing more 1080s and 1070s to the market, but now they will divert their TSMC allocation to produce cheaper 1060s to ruin the RX480 launch. I suppose getting rid...
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    RX 480 is apparently killing pcie slots

    I am wondering why so many think that people buying $200 GPU also buy cheap mobos. Also it does not mean these people do not do research and/or do not get advice from educated friends/relatives. You can find plenty quality mobos in $100-$150 range. And it is common wisdom not to skimp on...
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    Have past cards from nVidia also violated PCIe power specs?

    As someone, who is not electrical engineer, I would be greatly interested in explanation why very frequent spikes occuring all the time that break the spec almost twice are not dangerous at all, just because the average happens to be within spec. Looking at fuses at my mother-in-law place...
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    AMD in Trouble? RX 480 Powergate

    This had to be known to AMD pre-release, and I wonder why they went for it. They should have known THG does this kind of testing that would reveal it. Using 6-pin just for marketing reasons seems very, very strange to me. Most people do not care, and they could easily defend it pre-release...
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    RX 480 post mortem - the good, the bad, and the ugly.

    From that link, I find the memory overclocking results most interesting.
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    AMD in Trouble? RX 480 Powergate

    Actually, OEMs will first test, whether thier systems are stable and working as intended. And since OEMs typically use so-so components to cut down price, I am sure it would be the Dells, HPs and Lenovos out there, who would raise first red flag on RX480 not meeting specification. At stock...
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