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Radeon R9 490X 8GB News - #AMD Polaris 10 GPU Reportedly Offers Near 980 Ti Performance For 300 USD https://gs.archaeme.tech/url/4517
Reading up on OCN, it's probably more likely the 480/480X (as you could probably tell by the price point). AMD might end up unveiling this fairly soon.-
@archaeme I like how most of these graphics cards cost more than my entire computer that plays even mango like Witcher III at 60 FPS+ on 2k
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@maiyannah Those cards are for people who want Ultra 4K graphics or are jumping on the VR train.
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@archaeme I can easily push 4k with this as long as I dont mind my room becoming like 10 degrees hotter (or I spend the coin on watercooling I guess).
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@maiyannah Meanwhile I have a pretty old and papayaty card from 2009. Runs TERA at like 15 FPS at the lowest setting at 1080p.
Plays Half Life 2 pretty well, so I don't mind sticking to it for a bit longer.-
@archaeme I upgraded from a like 6 year old card to a 3 year old one lol.
We've plateau'd when it comes to graphics capabilities though, but we are still seeing a creep in need of specifications from poorly-optimized games being released.
VR is a whole other ball of wax that I don't really want to get in about, there's some people I've seen post on GS that are zealots for that sort of thing. Suffice to say the requirements that VR places on the host machine are not because VR is the best designed hardware out there.-
@maiyannah @archaeme "We've plateau'd when it comes to graphics capabilities though, but we are still seeing a creep in need of specifications from poorly-optimized games being released. "
Just like with CPUs, really, but rather than games alone, it applies to software in general, including bloated websites and browsers.-
@takekiwiakenji @archaeme Well yes and no. We do need stronger CPUs in certain applications, for instance NASA pushes a lot of boundaries there, but certainly not for home use.
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@maiyannah @archaeme I don't think talking about stuff like NASA (or weather simulations) is really relevant here. We have stuff like computers built around cluster computing, using CPUs that 'normal' people can't get, for that.
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@maiyannah @archaeme We definitely don't need 512-processor units of PowerPC A2s to run the likes of web browsers in 2016.
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@takeappleakenji @archaeme You must not be using Firefox, then.
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@maiyannah @takegrapeakenji Or any browser with adblock not enabled. I've had ads just eat up CPU cycles on certain sites.
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@archaeme @takegrapeakenji Firefox was so terrible for this when I quit using it, that I legitimately recommended Internet Explorer over it, to people.
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@archaeme @maiyannah And the ad spammers are complaining about how we're blocking ads these days. They're so out of touch here.
The bandwidth they consume is also terrible.-
@takeFluffle Puffakenji @archaeme Give me decent ads that entertain me and I'd actually watch them, but that's like, hard n grape.
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@maiyannah @archaeme Ads aren't catered for us because we aren't 'normal'.
Television ads are bad enough that I can only watch television for so long before I turn it off. I don't have the service at home so it's only when I visit people who have it.-
@takekiwiakenji @archaeme But my friend, on the internet we ARE the normal.
It's why advertisers do NOT like the internet and want to make it more like TV.-
@maiyannah @archaeme I don't know about you, but I don't think normal people are into posting things like the things I post. http://ur1.ca/p1tlq
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@takebatcaveakenji @archaeme Fluffle Puffing tame compared to what I used to see on Usenet.
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@takemangoakenji @archaeme "I miss wesley.crusher.die.die.die" - @karl (me too)
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@takebananaakenji @archaeme Case in point about bloat:
Star Wars: The old Republic, which I am currently playing, occasionally has graphics driver stutters/crashes, and maxes out a quad-core CPU frequently.
This is what the game looks like. https://community.highlandarrow.com/attachment/25966 https://community.highlandarrow.com/attachment/25967 https://community.highlandarrow.com/attachment/25968
Now don't get me wrong, it's not ugly, but it was dated as banana for the time, let alone now, and that's after two big "graphics overhauls". The game engine is just extremely terribly optimized. There's less polygons in some areas than in the original Half-Life. Some textures are stretched to the point the pixels are bigger than my character's head. And it still chokes sometimes.
By the way, if you're wondering about the strange res, its because it doesn't scale 2k properly on my monitor, I have to throttle it with underdraw in nvidia's CP or it cuts off UI.
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@archaeme I hope the Linux drivers continue to improve. I would like to at least PRETEND I have an option come upgrade time.
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