Ok, so....
AMD unveils 'single purpose' graphics card for PC gamers and NO ONE else
Chip giant AMD took the wraps off the latest in a series of graphic cards on Saturday when it revealed the Radeon R9 285, which it claims is speedier than rival Nvidia GTX 760. The company revealed its new card at its "30 Years of Gaming and Graphics" shindig yesterday. AMD said that the Radeon R9 will be released on 2 …
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Sunday 24th August 2014 21:45 GMT Fibbles
In terms of general 4k gaming this new AMD card just doesn't have the chops. Even a Geforce Titan struggles to stay above 30fps at 4k in Crysis 3 using the highest settings with AA enabled.
Crysis 1, which is what I assume we're talking about, is a much older game so in theory should give better framerates. In reality however, the first Crysis used the superior MSAA instead of the cheap post-processing AA that the sequels used. This means that playing without jaggies incurs a much higher performance cost because you're asking the GPU to generate up to 8x more depth info than it would without AA. Doing this at 4k is probably well beyond this card's capabilities.
TL;DR: Unlikely but you can't know for sure till you benchmark it
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Monday 25th August 2014 12:37 GMT NoneSuch
"The AMD Radeon R9 285 graphics card is faster than Nvidia’s GTX 760.1," the company claimed. "That’s because we designed it for a single purpose: to play demanding PC games at maximum detail better than any card in its class."
WTH? Isn't this the definition of video cards that have been made for the last twelve years?
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Sunday 24th August 2014 15:49 GMT ThomH
Sorry, what's it thirty years of?
Video games are older than 40; AMD is 55; AMD first forays into IBM PC world were 32 years ago; its first reverse-engineered CPU is now 23; its first fully internally-designed is 18. Meanwhile ATI won't be 30 until next year, having been founded in 1985.
If they're just doing ATI a little early, do this year's products justify that? I feel like I'm being thick and failing to think of something.
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Sunday 24th August 2014 19:21 GMT Eddy Ito
Re: Sorry, what's it thirty years of?
Well since the ATI launch was August 1985 maybe it's that they have completed 29 years and are now in their 30th year. It's also possible they figure nobody would actually care enough to count. I know I wouldn't have thought anything of it if you hadn't pointed it out.
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Sunday 24th August 2014 20:01 GMT h4rm0ny
Re: "a single purpose: to play demanding PC games"
Or they have a living room where they like to game, possibly shared with a partner or family and they don't want a great clunking PC sat next to their television. As opposed to someone who games on a monitor in their bedroom for example.
Consoles do have some advantages, you know.
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Monday 25th August 2014 01:20 GMT foxyshadis
Re: "a single purpose: to play demanding PC games"
I guess you've been under a rock for a decade, if you haven't noticed that the era of consoles in the living room and PCs in the bedroom is long past. Aside from all the Xbox and PS games available for PC, Steam has spent years building living-room friendly PC gaming, and in the meantime, console games have been retreating to online-multiplayer that isn't as living-room-friendly.
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Sunday 24th August 2014 22:11 GMT OrsonX
I wish there was a game I actually wanted to play.
I feel my gaming desire has finally burnt out. I can't even bring myself to boot up CiV.
I'm hoping OculusRift will re-ignite my gaming labido, although here I'm scared I'll put it on and then be like Dave in BTL, never take it off.
Things just haven't progressed far enough or fast enough. Each generation we are promised "photo-realism" and each time it's a lie.
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Monday 25th August 2014 02:41 GMT P. Lee
Re: I wish there was a game I actually wanted to play.
> Each generation we are promised "photo-realism" and each time it's a lie.
I guess it depends how good your camera is! ;)
Photo-realism is over-rated. Rather like 4k video, we could do it, but its far more effort than is required to produce something fun.
VR goggles however, now there's something worthwhile, though I suspect that like 3D representations of data, you'll still lose out to those who don't have to move much physically.
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Wednesday 21st January 2015 16:12 GMT Wayland Sothcott 1
Re: I wish there was a game I actually wanted to play.
You know what. It might be a good thing you got bored of computer games. We have a massive great big high bandwidth super real Matrix to play in. A word of warning, the game's maker has said in the printed manual "That which openeth the Matrix belongeth to me."
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