PC Hardware Thread

[PhantomShade]

Is it true that AMD's GPUs runs hotter than Nvidea's and has bad driver support??

yes they do run hotter.And the drivers are sht on both sides.

[rdsarna]

With Universal Windows Apps being DX12 only and a few of the latest Steam games including support for DX12, this technology is going to become the norm much faster than I initially anticipated.

 

New and old hardware architectures will come to a head and there will have to be a lot of work that the GPU manufacturers would have to do to bring good DX12 optimization.

 

Here is the first actual taste of DX12 that we have had via Digital Foundry

 

 

Fascinating that Nvidia is lagging behind not just in Graphics Benchmarks but also in real-world ingame tests. Hopefully those guys will bring about drivers that are much more optimized for DX12.

[Abdulah]

Wait for Nvidia Pascal or should i get 960 2GB Now . Budget - 15k

[ALPHA17]

^ For Pascal you have to wait till at-least Q1 2017 before you will get something in that price range.

[Abdulah]

^ For Pascal you have to wait till at-least Q1 2017 before you will get something in that price range.

Same for AMD ?

[PhantomShade]

Same for AMD ?

Yes.

mid range will release next year,this is standard release schedule,ultra high end and high end release in june-july,mid range comes in the next year.

[ALPHA17]

^ AMD might release a little sooner.

mid range will release next year,this is standard release schedule,ultra high end and high end release in june-july,mid range comes in the next year.

 

They have switched up their release schedule in the past, to a rousing response. Just need Polaris to be a definitively competitive piece of tech that stays relevant post-Pascal launch and you have a winner.

[PhantomShade]

Nvidia Users Beware, Latest Driver May Harm Your PC – Allegedly Killing GPUs, Is Plagued With Issues

 

 

 

 

If you have an Nvidia graphics cards we’d recommend waiting this one out. As reports have been pouring in on Nvidia’s official GeForce forum and reddit from users who report running into all sorts of issues after installing the 364.72 Game Ready driver. Ranging from their systems failing to boot to crashes, blue screen crashes, gray & green screen artifacting, flickering, visual corruption, freezing, G-Sync issues, DSR scaling issues and there’s even reports of GeForce GTX graphics cards dying after driver installation.

Read more: http://wccftech.com/nvidias-latest-game-ready-driver-allegedly-killing-gpus-plagued-issues/#ixzz44nFByJgK

How come they always mess up GFX drivers before the launch of a new line of GPU's?

 

obligatory,

 

Edited April 3, 2016 by PhantomShade

[glados87]

So much excited for todays reveal

[PS Fan]

Wait for Nvidia Pascal or should i get 960 2GB Now . Budget - 15k

Get 960.

 

Rascal 2017 mein aayega.

[SRINI87]

Get 960.

 

Rascal 2017 mein aayega.

 

So much excited for todays reveal

 

 

Today 9.30 PM ISt right>

[glados87]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3052222/components-graphics/nvidias-pascal-gpu-tech-specs-revealed-full-cuda-count-clock-speeds-and-more.html

[Nr.Draca47]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3052222/components-graphics/nvidias-pascal-gpu-tech-specs-revealed-full-cuda-count-clock-speeds-and-more.html

PCWorld:- All these delicious goodies will drip down to consumer graphics cards sooner than later, with the first 16nm GeForce models expected to land later this year.

[WR10]

AMD always try to chew more than they can bite and screw up pretty big with power requirements and their products have always been like old wine in new bottle. While Maxwell was a runaway success the r9 300 series really didn't have much to write about apart from the 8 gigs of vram and the fury series which is still nowhere to be found in most stores in India.

[PhantomShade]

AMD always try to chew more than they can bite and screw up pretty big with power requirements and their products have always been like old wine in new bottle. While Maxwell was a runaway success the r9 300 series really didn't have much to write about apart from the 8 gigs of vram and the fury series which is still nowhere to be found in most stores in India.

Run before the Red army gets you

[WR10]

^Fret not, its all green in here[emoji14]

[ALPHA17]

AMD always try to chew more than they can bite and screw up pretty big with power requirements and their products have always been like old wine in new bottle. While Maxwell was a runaway success the r9 300 series really didn't have much to write about apart from the 8 gigs of vram and the fury series which is still nowhere to be found in most stores in India.

 

FURY non availability in India is as much AMD's fault as it is the demographic being skewed towards a certain brand.

 

Also, maybe you would like to know that the R9 /R7 refresh is not the first time one of the brands is repackaging their products but hey, if it is AMD doing it, must be shady.

Edited April 6, 2016 by ALPHA17

[WR10]

Atleast with Nvidia there is a sizable performance gain compared with the previous gen. But not so much with AMD.

[ALPHA17]

^ Only in the high-end in most cases, most Maxwell cards have seen minor performance increments over the prior Kepler architecture.

 

GTX960 gives ~5 --< 10 frames improvement over the GTX760 in most cases, same with the GTX750 when compared to the older GTX650 series.

 

Maybe if you had a GTX8800GT and bought a GTS250 four years down the line, you might not have said so but then as you said, it is all Green here. Irregardless of how both brands have their fair share of slip ups.

[PhantomShade]

^ Only in the high-end in most cases, most Maxwell cards have seen minor performance increments over the prior Kepler architecture.

 

GTX960 gives ~5 --< 10 frames improvement over the GTX760 in most cases, same with the GTX750 when compared to the older GTX650 series.

 

Maybe if you had a GTX8800GT and bought a GTS250 four years down the line, you might not have said so but then as you said, it is all Green here. Irregardless of how both brands have their fair share of slip ups.

 

Nvidia has done,and continues to do,more than just "slip ups".Mostly because the Reds hung the white flag

i remember during HD 7xxx gen AMD was Price/Performance king,now they are just....