AMD de-thrones nVidia with DX12!

[RolloTheGreat]

The one hope they have this time is a MS (a company that matters) is probably pushing DX12 hard for XBone.

Amusingly, this isn't going to help them nearly as much as they like to think. The XBone has 3 ACEs, Sony made AMD add additional units for their hardware because the CPUs were so stupidly weak they couldn't come close to matching the PS3's CPU. Games that push ACEs hard on the XBone, are going to be using less than half the available resources on the PC hardware.

Feeble AMD APU is feeble? I'm inclined to agree with you that DX12 won't bring parity with PS4. Somewhere here I posted that my thought is what it might do for XBone is add some games to the 1080p list that wouldn't have been and bring it closer to PS4 on that metric.

I remain undisturbed.

Was I too subtle in my facetiousness?

Fermi supports 16 async threads-

http://on-demand.gputechconf.com/gtc-exp...ebinar.pdf

Their focus group is downright painful to read, they have no fucking clue what they are talking about in terms of any of the technology. I swear, they get a memo written by a guy at AMD who also doesn't understand what the fuck he is talking about and then manage to mangle it even further.

When I was in NVIDIA's focus group they'd ask me for ideas on who to recruit as people would come and go, seemed like they wanted to have 5-7 members. Then we'd chat about candidates and whether they seemed knowledgeable and able to put a professional image of the company forward. (you may remember I tried to get you in back in the day, but you declined)

The AMD path seems to be "Let's recruit as many dumbasses as we can with posting contests. We'll award them points for the number of times they post "Arf arf arf! I love AMD and you should too!" or "Arf arf arf! NVIDIA is the devil!" and then give them games and hardware based on the number of posts.".

With us it was always,"Here's our new stuff. Use it, tell us if you find any bugs or things that aren't user friendly and post about your experiences online, good or bad.". When you're using what is usually the highest end stuff in existence, you don't usually have too much negative to say, because what you have is better than anything else or at least as good usually. So they got free advertising and QA out of the deal, because it's pretty easy to get excited when you're building quad SLi rigs and seeing you can do things like ginormous AA.