Radeon HD 7000 Revealed: AMD to Mix GCN with VLIW4 & VLIW5 Architectures

[FischOderAal]

You should work for EA support with responses like that.

Oh, I'd like to get payed for these posts but I'd hate to be associated with EA.

Nothing like a bit of badly disguised ad-hominem eh?

Let's lay down some facts:

[LIST.][*]You can game on laptops, or please find me the law/rule that says you cannot.

You can does not mean it's meant to be. Basta.

[*]It doesn't replace my desktop, no laptop can.

Oh, tons of people would disagree. Mainly those who only play Sims 15 (or where they are at)-

[*]What I or anyone you are not related to do with their money shouldn't concern you.

Fair enough.

[*]It's considerably more portable than a desktop. Can a desktop do 7 hours on battery then switch over to the d-gpu's in a blink for some good quality gaming?

A laptop that has a dedicated GPU and runs a game for 7 hours? Please elaborete. I'd like to see these unicorns. (Yes, you did not say that it runs games for 7 hours, but this discussion is about gaming on a laptop. Period.)

[*]I can turn up to a lan with a single messenger bag containing said laptop, power supply, a mouse & a mousepad. Seriously convenient.

Until someone spills Coka Cola on your laptop. That's quite a typical scenario for a lan party. And I don't see any advantages going somewhere with a 3 kg laptop instead of a 10 kg rig (incl. display, keyboard etc). Usually, the beer has the biggest "share" in the BOM.

[*]AMD drivers are great for single cards and 50/50 rubbish for crossfire. I've used amd/ati for years and this problem has reared it's ugly head on many occasion, far more so than I get with sli. - Which was my inital point in the first place. AMD need to work much harder on crossfire as right now I would prefer the 580's over the 6990's becuase of poor/non-existent scaling in recently released games.
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Can't argue with that. I've never used a multi gpu setup just because of all the bad rep I got from my friends (SLI and CF, to be fair).