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[Orbital-Fetus]

The $200 yearly cycle is inevitable at this point IMO. No optical drives, no more unnecessary bs like kinect.

Run on a 3 year support cycle for these things
2013 model is released and supported until late 2016
2014 model support till 2017
2015 model support till 2018

Architecture from here on out is not going to change much anymore. Every previous year can be knocked down to "medium" and then eventually "low" settings capable in the eyes of developers. No OS updated after 3 cycles, Sony and Microsoft have a huge backlog that people can enjoy for years to come. Focus on getting the emulation right for legacy and clearly the support for new piff.

The Witcher 3 can run on a i5 2500K or Phenom II X4 940 and a GTX 660. You mean to tell me they can't holla at AMD to get an APU system built around something similar and release something for $200? The Controller doesn't come in the package anymore, you buy one and that is your controller for the foreseeable future.

 

[-DMP-]

What would be the downside of pairing a Nvidia card with an AMD processor?

 

[duckbutta]

I was thinking about this yesterday, but the market spoke. The majority of the console crowd refuses to pay $500 for a gaming machine and as a result we now have a generation that is under powered for the next couple of years.

Something tells me that Sony and Microsoft will introduce their next gen consoles in 2017, the idea of another console generation lasting 8 years is unrealistic with the way technology advances now.

I mean their consumers don't seem to care about using gpu's that are 3 or 4 years old...so I can easily see xboxone and ps4 lasting another 5 years...

When did these things come out...end of 2013...

Creeping up on 2 years already...5 more seems feasible...only a year longer than you think though...

Does either company have production cost low enough to turn a profit on the sale of a console yet?

 

[Ciggavelli]

What would be the downside of pairing a Nvidia card with an AMD processor?

AMD processors are slow. You'd probably risk a CPU bottleneck if you get a strong nvidia card (i.e., your cpu can't keep up with your graphics card, which cripples it and doesn't allow it to preform to full capacity). Other than that, not much to worry about. Go intel though. AMD does not make good processors.

 

[daze23]

AMD announced their new cards. no benches yet though

http://www.pcgamer.com/amd-launching-new-r9-fury-graphics-cards-in-july-for-550-and-650/

AMD held a press conference this morning to give us the first details on its new 300 series graphics cards. Let’s get the big news out of the way first: the new “Fiji” GPU will be used in the Radeon R9 Fury and R9 Fury X with high-bandwidth memory. Those cards will launch for $550 and $650. The only difference between the two, as far as we know, is that the Fury is air cooled, while the Fury X is water-cooled.

There’s also going to be a smaller 6-inch Fiji card, the R9 Nano, which will have half the power of the older R9 290X in a much smaller form-factor.

Here are some early specs on the new Fury cards: they have 4096 stream processors and 8.9 billion transistors, powering 8.6 teraflops of performance at a 1050 MHz core clock. AMD says the new HBM gives them triple the performance-per-watt of GDDR5, while using 94 percent less PCB surface area than the old graphics memory.

The R9 Fury goes on sale on July 14th, while the watercooled Fury X goes on sale on July 24th. AMD claims the Fury X’s watercooling will allow for some serious overclocking. Will that give it the power to outperform Nvidia’s 980 Ti? We’re excited to find out.

The small form-factor Nano is coming later this summer, while a dual-GPU Fury card will be available later in the fall.

Those aren’t the only new cards AMD announced: the company’s also releasing the R7 360 and R7 370, R9 380, R9 390 and R9 390X. These are all rebrands of AMD’s last-gen 200 series cards, though it’s noteworthy that the R9 390 and 390X are both outfitted with 8GB of GDDR5 RAM at $329 and $429.

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

What would be the downside of pairing a Nvidia card with an AMD processor?

nothing.

 

[Ciggavelli]

We need some benchmarks on the new AMD cards. The fact that they didn't give em, makes me think that they are worse than the titan x/980ti (which makes me happy, and sad, at the same time)

Here's some leaked benchmarks

http://www.digitaltrends.com/comput...gpu-show-nvidia-titan-x-rivaling-performance/

Looks to be on par with the 980ti/titan x. So, not missing out on much, unless you want to water cool and have poor performance in nvidia backed games

 

[Ciggavelli]

I'm looking into buying a 4k tv and connecting my computer to it. HDMI 2.0 does 4k at 60hz, right?

 

[Ciggavelli]

6K season is partially back.

Ryse uses over 7gb of vram in 6k btw. I'm not so pissed that I bought the titan xs anymore. a 980ti sli setup couldn't handle 6K

Edit: 9gb of vram in Shadow of Mordor . I might hit 12 in one of these games

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

6K season is partially back.

Ryse uses over 7gb of vram in 6k btw. I'm not so pissed that I bought the titan xs anymore. a 980ti sli setup couldn't handle 6K

Edit: 9gb of vram in Shadow of Mordor . I might hit 12 in one of these games

something will go wrong...

 

[Ciggavelli]

something will go wrong...

it always does. Games already don't use as much gpu in surround mode, and I can't tell why. It's weird.

 

[Ciggavelli]

something will go wrong...

No artifacting, but the titan xs aren't using full power in surround in a lot of games, so everything is running poorly. Back to one monitor

 

[The Frozen One]

What is the minimum graphics card I need to buy to play this game at a decent setting.

Im looking to spend ~$100.

 

[Ciggavelli]

What is the minimum graphics card I need to buy to play this game at a decent setting.

Im looking to spend ~$100.

what game?

ANd what do you mean by "decent setting?" Medium? High?

 

[The Frozen One]

what game?

ANd what do you mean by "decent setting?" Medium? High?

shyt.. I meant batman arkham Knight.

Medium setting