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Good quality streaming is nearly visually indistinguishable from blu-ray, even 4k UHD. There have been lots of side-by side quality comparisons, and anything modern (Netflix, Prime, VUDU, and even Apple) provides incredible visual quality. If you are sitting at normal viewing distances, you...

False. 7 nm Ryzen will be out on the desktop in the first half of next year with both IPC and clock speed boosts.

1. NVidia's actions are shitty and they are consumer hostile 2. Without competition, NVidia has every right (and corporate imperative) to maximize prices to meet demand 3. Prices are out of line with delivered performance (using history as a guide), and therefore consumers would be strongly...

If AMD ignores Ray Tracing with Navi and invests all available die space to conventional rasterization, they have a unique opportunity to leapfrog Nvidia in performance by quite a margin. Almost nothing will perform well with RTX features (save the new AA option) so there is a golden opportunity...

This looks pretty good - already seems to have more polish vs. the first one. Seems to be running on a modified Doom engine, so should get good performance and high quality visuals.

Possible that AMD traded FPS for more stable frame-time and a better overall experience? Or does the measurement just show too much noise that isn't really felt in game play? In general, I'd think I'd prefer more consistent frame times vs. absolute FPS. Good write up!

I think the key take away is that they are leveraging engineering talent that brought us the CPU Zen architecture to provide support to pull off something similar on the GPU side. It makes sense to try to get some synergy going now that they are generating healthy cash flow from the CPU side of...

What a terrible “article”. Didn’t expect to see trolling as an official article on this site...

Well, it is interesting that AMD has gotten it's driver "mojo" back, having better "Game Ready" day-one drivers than NVidia on a couple of key releases. That has not happened in some time and suggests that NVidia is literally asleep at the wheel at this point when it comes to driver releases...

Very cool review, thanks for investing the time to show something like this!

Was excited. Then realized my perfectly fine 4K monitor does not support HDCP 2.2. No longer excited, simply annoyed. The only ones punished are those who try to do the right thing by the right's holders...

I've used it once. The boards are much nicer to browse. Potentially could use it again. It's one thing to have a different opinion, but something else entirely to be so persistently abrasive that someone sucks the life out of every thread.

No doubt that there is plenty of opportunity for better audio, but Creative is not the solution and no one who has any familiarity with their history should support them. They are a textbook example of how to not only become a monopoly, but to essentially fail at it at the same time. I think...

Creative killed it. Full stop. I remember getting so pissed at them over a decade ago because of shitty drivers and forced obselence that I vowed never to buy another product from them again. And I haven't. They've been sitting on essential patents for over a decade now and have done nothing...

I've found the best program for beating the snot out of your CPU is to run some folding. That tends to trip your system pretty quickly given the extreme stresses it puts on the entire system.

I'm having trouble with like... any type of combat. Nothing that would seem to make sense works. I think maybe they should have more combat tutorials in game and a means to provide feedback for what you are doing wrong. At least at this time, I find this game to be anything but accessible.

I'm very happy with my card. I play most games that I like at 4K resolution with max, or near max settings (excluding AA). I was worried that some of the more demanding AAA games would be too much, and to be fair, they are at 4K + Max settings, but I am also surprised by something like Doom...

OMFG this is the hardest game I've ever played. I only really played Rome Total War previously, but the straight vertical line learning curve is... not very fun. Feels like you need maybe 20 - 40 hours of hard core military strategy learning before you can even pick this thing up to play...

Glad this article prompted a response. We all win if AMD actually does something to improve their performance.

I've found that the best way to try to take them out is to try to flank them (i.e., hit them from behind if you can move fast enough). Also, if you take some cover and are a bit patient, from time to time and opening becomes available for you to do some damage. Unrelated, I was impressed (not...

AMD already indicated this was the direction they wanted to head in- it just feels a little soon for something like that. But it does make sense and would negate the drawbacks of crossfire and sli. As to the how, I can't really say. You'd need logic that is the equivalent of a load balancer that...

I have to also admit that I was wrong and Kyle was right. He calls it like it is, which is why I keep coming back here. Lesson learned.

cdkeys had this at that price right at launch, which was hard to beat at the time.

Latest rumor on B3D is ~96 watts or so. If that is the case, then we could see some interesting partner boards maybe 1300 - 1400 range? Would be interesting.

I read that they got the phrasing wrong and that for whatever reason, scaling was only 51% instead of the normal amount you would expect to see from two cards. Not sure the root cause, but pre-release drivers are likely to be part of the issue.

Jerry Sanders once said that volume is the vaccine. It was an interesting statement at the time, and it made a lot of sense. Frankly, AMD had the production capacity at the time (Athlon / Athlon 64), but with Intel marketing agreements to OEMs based on volume sold, they weren't able to keep up...

Frankly I like AMD's thoughts about eventually eliminating crossfire and instead treating multiple GPUs as a single larger one. This would eliminate all of the draw backs we have today (wasted RAM, micro stuttering, special profiles). However, you'd need some fancy interconnect designs and logic...

Kyle - sorry to hear about this one. As much as I like AMD stuff, to me this just doesn't feel right. I'm sure there are plenty of sites that don't paint AMD in a positive light, not sure why you would be singled out for merely being honest. Feels like someone in there has a vendetta against...

I have it on good authority that AMD dropped a zero off the die size and shader counts by accident and the performance will be 10x a 3 GHz 1080... For the iPhone 7. Seriously. This is totally legit.

This is pretty cool. Honestly, not sure why this wasn't always an option to begin with as the same choices need to be made on the PC side already.

So question, and I apologize if it is a terrible one, but why are we so confident that having a 256 bit memory bus will prevent high performance? It obviously isn't ideal, but when we look at Fury, it is pretty clear that HBM was overkill and that RAM bandwidth wasn't really a bottleneck there...

Just got this and tested on high settings at 4K on my Fury X. Averages about 35 fps with highs in the low 40's. Smooth performance (on the benchmark). Will do more testing later. But feels good now!

My thoughts - as a Fury X user - they are "close enough" that it doesn't matter. I mean that in I am and have been a fan of AMD cards for a while. NVidia's current performance lead by itself isn't enough to make me change my mind (my history with them hasn't been good - bad luck or otherwise)...

Looks like a really solid suite of improvements. Especially encouraged that they are looking at DX9 - DX11 instead of just DX12. Can't wait. Feels like AMD is really reinvigorated lately - let hope this momentum sees through regular driver updates, next gen GPU and finally Zen.

Fury X - Sapphire using latest drivers.

So I can move up exactly 0 MHz from stock clocks... Oh well...

Nice article. Definitely time to hit AMD hard on the Crossfire issues. Seems like this is just inexcusable at this point.

Intel, with the backing of both Microsoft and HP was not able to successfully transition us to Itanium. A non x86 future ain't in the cards any time soon.

Seriously man, how many companies have the billions of cash lined up to design state of the art ISA's that are not x86 but would be performance competitive with an i5 or an i7? Add to that the additional billions required to incent Microsoft and every other software developer to start making...

What? There is nothing wrong with x86 such that IBM or even ARM will come in and make better. Without AMD it will only be Intel in the enthusiast space. Period. There isn't enough cash available to anyone else to become a meaningful entrant.