AMD Radeon R9 290 reviews

[STEvil]

Unimpressive demo, to be quite frank. The sniper part, I didn't notice that big of a difference. The fireplace and the electric particle does show a difference between front and back at least. Maybe because it lacks a frame of reference with the sniper part.

I think people are taking trueaudio wrong (and its being marketed poorly, but this is partly because it will be more important for later generation cards rather than current gen). It can help positional audio in accuracy (which that demo shows poorly), but realisticly what it does is offload the audio stress from the CPU to enable better quality or more audio streams.

In a couple years it should become more important, but for the time being its just fancy audio polish.

[MaddMuppet]

I think people are taking trueaudio wrong (and its being marketed poorly, but this is partly because it will be more important for later generation cards rather than current gen). It can help positional audio in accuracy (which that demo shows poorly), but realisticly what it does is offload the audio stress from the CPU to enable better quality or more audio streams.

In a couple years it should become more important, but for the time being its just fancy audio polish.

It's a start. I'm just happy someone has taken the time to at least put some effort into PC Audio. Big ups to AMD for that.

[gojirasan]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A3D

I always liked positional audio. Creative Labs killed it off when they killed off Aureal. I wonder if Creative will try to sue AMD now.

[Andi64]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A3D

I always liked positional audio. Creative Labs killed it off when they killed off Aureal. I wonder if Creative will try to sue AMD now.

The 3D positional audio on DirectSound games with EAX3+ on Creative adapters was incredible. I still play Call of Duty 2, with OpenAL on my X-Fi and it's WAY better than the positional audio used in most modern games, like Battlefield 4. In multiplayer with CMSS-3D the sound makes a huge difference.

I really like this TrueAudio stuff, at least the concept. It was the year 2006, I think, when I bought my X-Fi XtremeMusic. For me it was revolutionary, and as far as gaming sound effects I've never seen anything as impressive as that.

Good memories.

[blindbox]

I think people are taking trueaudio wrong (and its being marketed poorly, but this is partly because it will be more important for later generation cards rather than current gen). It can help positional audio in accuracy (which that demo shows poorly), but realisticly what it does is offload the audio stress from the CPU to enable better quality or more audio streams.

In a couple years it should become more important, but for the time being its just fancy audio polish.

Good point. It would definitely open up ways for future endeavours.