I must admit I am getting a bit mad at myself for buying into AMD but this could be premature ... I shall explain ...
My AMD Kaveri APU has 512 Stream Processors.
By some unknown illogical thinking only AMD knows why you cannot get a card to pair of perfectly in dual graphics with the iGPU?
Scan have confirmed that the R7-250 OCs and the R7-250Xs do indeed differ a great deal! The formers 384 Stream Processors to the latters 612?! How the feck this makes any sense is beyond me but let us leave that alone. I have tried to find out if you can Dual Graphics a 250X and there are epople that has claimed it has been done but I am damned if I can find it!
So why a card that has not been released when the Kaveri was that had the same 512 shaders is beyond me and left people with something that will have its capabilities reduced in a dual graphics set up due to the only compatible chips missing around 130 shaders thereabouts.
It gets better.
Tonight while feverishly looking for evidence and ways to get the 250X in dual graphics I then learn that there is indeed a card coming out and mysteriously called the R9-255 which DOES have exactly the same shader count as Kaveri at 512?!
Suddenly everyything made sense and it just ook them time to get it out the door maybe? Still this mattered not for as long as I knew a suitable card to pair with the AMD A10-7850K, and the A10-7700 from what I have read, was coming I would happily wait. A good plan from AMD. Or so it seemed!
On furtheer research it also turned out that this car was going to be for system builders only?!
Cue line of impending despair ... 'Oh for FU...'
Lol!
Now why the hell they would do this is an even bigger mystery and not a good idea if you ask me, and I am rarely wrong on these things. Why do things that will piss off even more people than those you already did with Bulldozer and Piledriver FX-8*** lines?!
Still I am going to go with the reports being wrong and that they will be followed, as I already spotted a PC with the R9-255 Radeon card in it on Amazon, by a standalone card? Or at least one might be able to be acquired from somewhere?
I can wait, sure Crysis 3 is extremely pretty but the lack of saved games and moaning by gamers about it leaves me a bit cold, it was just silly cheap when I bought it. Now with Fallout 4 or Elder Scrolls 6 imminent I just might be producing house-bricks from very small orifices?!
Scan also could not answer my question about the 250X being able to dual graphics and started talking about me buying a Radeon R9-270 or 290, umm no! With nothing out that screams at me I need to buy one I am not going to, partly because the prices drop rapidly out of the blue and there simply is no need for it if a suitable dual graphics card becomes available, which it should!
Unless AMD really do love stirring up a mire of hatred towards themselves and get some kind of sadist kick out of it?!
In the meantime I will look for more concrete evidence of this R9-255 along with the even weirdly named and announced R9-260 card, as there is a R7-260 card?!
You will be able to spot gamers easily before very long and AMD products will come with health warnings on them because use of products will be able to induce the bad habit of head-scratching until bald!
LOL!
QUICK EDIT:
Hmm it does not seem to state anything about the Radeon R9-255 being OEM only on AMD's site!
look here ...
http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/graphics/desktop/oem/r9
EDIT 2:
Oh crap yes it does state OEM at the top in the menu on the left!
Look, A .. M .. D, I do not care which bloody card it is but can we have at least one card whreby your not losing stream processors of power of the iGPU in the AMD A10-78050K?!
I would much rather buy a card that takes a drop in power to match the iGPU that have the iGPU drop as I see this ans first off stupid and secondly inefficient!
Or I start hearing that the iGPU still still utilised for other tasks with a dedicated card in gaming using your new technologies? Like to GPU cores are used along with the CPU cores?!
That would be very cool just as a matching graphics card would be!
I hope it was not a ploy to make us buy the Kaveris and then have to go out and buy a R9 card?!
Grr!
Showing posts with label kaveri dual graphics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kaveri dual graphics. Show all posts
Tuesday, 8 July 2014
Wednesday, 2 July 2014
THE SWEET SAILING CORSAIR CHASSIS
Here is the one part ... the only part of a rig that gives me a bloody headache!
Sorry but I find that 90% of cases are butt ugly even the ones that Custom PC Magazine or others give scores for, pissed or goodies no doubt.
I saw this case used in a Kaveri build in PC PRO I think it was and despite many reviewers still not cottoning on to how good the Kaveri is energy, innovation and power wise I like the look of the case with the fans on.
Oddly I had seen the case previously and thought, hang on I have seen that case in Maplins? It was simply OK on the shelf but the budget group test one which I think was actually called the Kaverian and by Dino PC I believe looked swish.
There are other swish cases but would cost in excess of £100 and one was £150 and another £100 more still.
You do get some nice cases but they are just a case at the end of the day and costing more than your main CPU/APU is stupid. Also overclokcing is a bit yesterday in all honesty and I think it will lose it pizazz. It has with me and many I attended university with will not believe I said that. Especially as we all use to pile around to see this new unit that sat at the base of you case that was in essence a fridge! Lol. I wanted one!
In case you missed it I will dual graphics up this rig. This should get Crysis 3 running in 1080p with only a few settings turned down, after all its doing it now in 1080p low to medium but not quite playable, lol.
Once the Mantle, hUMA and the like are all included in coding, which they will of course and doubting is , madness. I will likely then just put a Radeon R9 280X or R9 290X or whatever is out.
Any idiots that are tempted to say anything about bottle-necking ...STOP! JUST DON'T!
Anyway I am dead fussy as I stated and I really like things well made with good materials as well as looking smart, so the orange and other colours were out it had to be black, lol.
When you get these cases with the funny sharp edges and styling that end up looking like they belong on an kids desk with both the HR Giger Alien figurines along with those from Predator or the ones with the strips of light on the edges that look like a prop from an early seventies Doctor Who episode?!
Or at the other end just too plain as some of the Lian Li cases are. But I guess you can work with that and put the necassary components in to make something like really sweet.
Sorry but I find that 90% of cases are butt ugly even the ones that Custom PC Magazine or others give scores for, pissed or goodies no doubt.
I saw this case used in a Kaveri build in PC PRO I think it was and despite many reviewers still not cottoning on to how good the Kaveri is energy, innovation and power wise I like the look of the case with the fans on.
Oddly I had seen the case previously and thought, hang on I have seen that case in Maplins? It was simply OK on the shelf but the budget group test one which I think was actually called the Kaverian and by Dino PC I believe looked swish.
There are other swish cases but would cost in excess of £100 and one was £150 and another £100 more still.
You do get some nice cases but they are just a case at the end of the day and costing more than your main CPU/APU is stupid. Also overclokcing is a bit yesterday in all honesty and I think it will lose it pizazz. It has with me and many I attended university with will not believe I said that. Especially as we all use to pile around to see this new unit that sat at the base of you case that was in essence a fridge! Lol. I wanted one!
In case you missed it I will dual graphics up this rig. This should get Crysis 3 running in 1080p with only a few settings turned down, after all its doing it now in 1080p low to medium but not quite playable, lol.
Once the Mantle, hUMA and the like are all included in coding, which they will of course and doubting is , madness. I will likely then just put a Radeon R9 280X or R9 290X or whatever is out.
Any idiots that are tempted to say anything about bottle-necking ...STOP! JUST DON'T!
Anyway I am dead fussy as I stated and I really like things well made with good materials as well as looking smart, so the orange and other colours were out it had to be black, lol.
When you get these cases with the funny sharp edges and styling that end up looking like they belong on an kids desk with both the HR Giger Alien figurines along with those from Predator or the ones with the strips of light on the edges that look like a prop from an early seventies Doctor Who episode?!
Or at the other end just too plain as some of the Lian Li cases are. But I guess you can work with that and put the necassary components in to make something like really sweet.
Monday, 19 May 2014
ENTER THE KAVERIAN II
Wow!
This video on YouTube was amazing on so many levels.
I still need to look into why the Canadian duo are not having their posts sent to me as I would like to hear their review on the new Kaveri APU.
But tonight, as I cannot get to sleep yet again, I find this guy and I was shocked. Funny and unbiased was one shock and then was the shock of the testing of the A10-7850k.
This funny chap fully admitted to being a snob when it comes to computer components and I an too. I just happen to dislike they give premiums you pay Intel and... well I don't like Intel, lol.
Yet both myself and the funny guy got a shock as he tested from a single overclocked Kaveri running Battlefield 4 to a dual graphics with a R7-250, then a R7-260 I think it was running alone without the integrated graphics and then a Geforce 780 card. As he did each test, and he had performed the same tests previously without being impressed, the frames per second continued to keep upwards! There was nothing in the way of bottlenecks at all?! Huh?!
I was certainly not expecting that and immediately I thought what could be possible if the iGPU could be coded for separately to the discreet GPU?!
After ask the whole plan for Kaveri is that the unused graphics compute units can be used in conjunction with the CPU cores!
This idea of having 12 cores in the chip being used when not playing games is a very big draw to me. It is a very clever idea and added to that a very energy efficient one too!
I bet many people did not imagine saying or reading that after the very energy sucky FX chips?!
Wow, I am actually quite stunned!! I must say they have been working their butts of on this idea and I am beginning to see why there had been no talk of FX chips.
In fact consider the remark I made about the opinion some have that the chip had more to it that have been switched off?! This usually done by a laser.
If so and a fully switched on Kaveri appears later in the year that would be quite something! Of this has been prevented by way of some agreement with Microsoft and Sony it's a shame because I would never but their machines anyway! Lol!
Now consider the possibilities I raise asking with that if others and this YouTube video and you might start realizing why Sony and Microsoft decided on AMD for their machines?
I am wondering that without actually refusing it despite them being around for a while that AMD have had another K5, I think it was K5, moment starting us all in the face?!
Now that I did not expect!
Crysis 3 on AMD A-Series KAVERI A10-7850K AND AMD…: http://youtu.be/9yqkSYWmBqQ
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