You're too fast buddy ^^
Nice feature regarding XFire idle power consumption :up:
You're too fast buddy ^^
Nice feature regarding XFire idle power consumption :up:
More Eyefinity stuff (totally hot and loving those changes).
http://i43.tinypic.com/2m5near.png
http://i43.tinypic.com/n3olf.png
, this is only features, but this look good. thanks guys for uploading them.
yeah i have correct my post, i was seeing it wrong, maybe i have watch to long the slides with the 28pages,.., ( you know the one with image of 1x1 cm lol ).. Its sunday and my brain is in wait mode.
How many people are going to run 6 monitors / HD3D + Eyefinity combo? And if performance increase rumours are true then they will also have to buy 4 cards to get acceptable frame rates at such resolutions...
All these features but power consumption management look like a gimmick to me...
Those Eyefinity improvements are certainly welcome and expected, as is HD3D Eyefinity and HD3D CF support. Personally I gave up on CF and am using standard resolution Eyefinity, so the only improvement looks to be the centered desktop. But those are driver improvements. 7900 has so far offered better idle power consumption and tessellation performance, and perhaps better cooling as well, according to these slides. I'd say that alone makes it a decent launch, even if the performance increase is not what the hype would have you believe. To me it looks like the chip is still fairly modest in size, and the only reason it isn't the normal 300 mm^2 is because of the memory bus. Remember, Cypress increased die size 263->334 mm^2 and had 125% more transistors, while this looks like it will decrease die size and up the transistor count only 65%. So it would be easy to say it will bring only half the performance increase of what 5870 brought, so 30-50% maybe would be my guess.
^How cute. More curious about the 7770-7870 specs. Haven't heard much more about them.
It's pretty insane, only 4 days to lauch and almost no decent leaks.
Those Eyefinity slides seriously made me need to change my pants.
The fact you can create custom res and have different screen size configs is huge, especially for me as I now can go out and get a couple of 19in panels to go with my 24 and just map the res accordingly.
I cant wait for this card to launch.
The only "major issue I may have would be with length. I hope its shorter than the GTX580 Reference board.
lol i see your point. But i mean from the photos you can see three different screen sizes. Maybe a few 19s in portrait or some 22s would scale better. But the idea that you can have three different sized panels displaying eyefinity is great news for me. This way I don't have to shell out for another 2 24" benQ panels just to experience eyefinity.
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http://i43.tinypic.com/2m5near.png
Bloody hell, I only just recently bought a new 1.5m wide Ikea desk!
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Now I need something like 3m wide, but I dont have space for that :(
The thing is I currently have a 24" 1920x1200 monitor, plus a 19" 1280x1024. So if I was to buy myself a shiny new 27" upgrade, I could use all three different sizes in Eyefinity now?
[QUOTE=bhavv;5018371] I personally would just stick to a single 27" if I were you. That's just my own take, but you can see how the different resolutions of each screen slightly messes with the images. Just look at the yellow triangle that starts in the middle screen and moves to the left
Or just stick to my 24" until it breaks. I only got a bigger desk so I could use 2 monitors which helps a lot in windows.
The backlight on my 19" died ages ago, so it looks a lot darker than it should, but I found a setting to increase the gamma separately for each monitor.
My Acer G24 runs at 30% brightness and 35% contrast, on default 50% its just blindingly bright. Using different monitors together isnt ideal because of how different the brightness / contrast can be.
The yellow triangle is for bezel compensation. You move it to the left or right to get it to line up. No doubt showing off the new "flexible" bezel comp which will allow for it to work properly with different sized monitors. I don't think it's indicative of how the final image will look.
Depends on what your definition of excellent yields are... AMD's 28nm yields are better than early 40nm ramp yields which weren't as bad as everybody thinks.
28nm is going very well atm. As long as TSMC keeps increasing capacity like they promised this will be much more smooth than 40nm.
78x0, aka Pitcairn, should be 24CUs on a 256bit bus. Probably around ~3bil trannies and ~240-250mm2.
77x0, aka Cape Verde, should be ~12CUs on a 128bit bus. Probably around ~1.5b trannies and looks like ~130mm2.
So, Pitcairn, HD 6970 like performance with >150 w TDP, and Cape Verde, HD 5770 or HD 4890 performance with >80 w TDP, right ?
7870 should be a nice crossfire setup
5x1 landscape setup! :eek: