63jaxi don't see any CF connector on the card???:wtf:

springs113It is there at the very same spot it normally is...look good there's just no cutout where the xfire connector/adapter normally slides on but the markings with the metal/copper conductors are there.

We noted this fact way back in our six-way Eyefinity write-up: the card-to-card link over a CrossFire bridge can only transfer images up to to four megapixels in size. Thus, a CrossFire team connected to multiple displays must pass data from the secondary card to the primary card over PCI Express. The method of compositing frames for Eyefinity is simply different. That's presumably why AMD's current frame-pacing driver can't work its magic on anything beyond a single, four-megapixel monitor.

HumanSmokeMaybe AMD's driver and software team could make them an instructional video !

63jaxi don't see any CF connector on the card???:wtf:

NaitoI don't think a proprietary API (Mantle) has much of a place in today's world. You ever wondered what mostly caused Glide's demise? On top of that, will game developers want to implement multiple versions of code, or code that can only run on a specific vendor's hardware that has ~1/3* of the market, let alone what percentage of those cards are capable of running it?

PopcornMachineSo all we got today really was a prices on all but the newest cards, no benchmarks, and a boatload of marketing BS.

I mean a big boatload. A shipload.

Really turned off by this. Audio? They most of the time talking about audio!?!?

Not what anybody wanted to hear.

NaitoI don't think a proprietary API (Mantle) has much of a place in today's world. You ever wondered what mostly caused Glide's demise? On top of that, will game developers want to implement multiple versions of code, or code that can only run on a specific vendor's hardware that has ~1/3* of the market, let alone what percentage of those cards are capable of running it?

james888Aren't all consoles running amd hardware? Will they be using mantle on the consoles? If so then they would have their foot in.

XenturionExcellent. They finally dropped the requirement of an active DisplayPort adapter for 'legacy' monitors in EyeFinity. (Presumably eliminating the screen tearing you get on one monitor from using an adapter; not to mention them dying) I suspect a 290 or 280X will be my next card. I'll wait for the reviews, but the healthy helpings of VRAM on both cards should be ideal for triple monitors. Plus, excellent compute performance never hurts.

HumanSmokePricing on all cards except the one everyone is interested in.

/Damp squib

AkrianGPUs....audio technology....say wut ? 0_o

GC_PaNzerFINLittle birds tell: 8000 points in 3DMark Fire Strike. gtx 780 does 8500. :o

NeoXFOn a overclocked i7, yes.

NaitoI don't think a proprietary API (Mantle) has much of a place in today's world.

cadavecaNah, a stock 3960X or 4770K does 8700 no problem..in fact, much closer to 9000, to be honest. I have 7970 and GTX 780, plus the modern CPUs, plus the 3DMark Firestrike benches already done and can link them easily enough.

But that's besides the point. We have no clockspeed info, no shader count, and no real testing done. Those scores could change.

Anyway, to me "immersive" = V.R. and I suppose that AMD has reason for going with this, although the real use might not be immediately apparent. What does strike me as odd about the whole thing is the fact that Microsoft seems to be one step ahead of AMD here, and that the butt-load of Win7 users that are not likely to change OS any time soon, plus some hardware restrictions, will make this TrueAudio a difficult sell for some time yet.

haswrongit could get some attention if amd manages to show at least 20% performance increase in crysis 3 using mantle as opposed to running it via directx. never hurts to become independent on microsoft.

i hope amd doesnt drop the opengl support too..

i havea different question. how does one utilize the audio features? does the graphics card communicate with a sound device or wtf?

NeoXFI'm surprised no one is commenting on AMD's response to nVidia's "GeForce Experience" or whatever it's called.

NeoXFEdit: I'm surprised no one is commenting on AMD's response to nVidia's "GeForce Experience" or whatever it's called.

haswrongwhats to comment anyway, amd are the best of best! at least thats what they told me during the livestream.

well, its a caddish datamining operation for monitoring what programs users use (games at this stage, but theres certainly much more info to mine). i wonder what or who decides the optimal game setting (users may broadcast their setting back to amd, but the most used setting doesnt have to be the smoothest).. and amd = copy cat as with the boost/turbo feature.

theoneandonlymrkonly a fool of the spinal tap variety would believe Nvidia invented boost/turbo

for years all chips have had performance steps etched into their low level microcode and there is no difference at all between how that and boost works, the only change is thermal/power monitoring ,err no actually they were doing that anyway to just not as well

KainXSat least these will ram the prices of everything down,
thank you amd

Crap DaddyYou are right, it doesn't. But does it worth spending some money to make Nvidia look bad in one AAA game? AMD sez yes. Thing is when the 290X will be in the hands of the reviewers mantle spiced BF4 will not be available yet.

PopcornMachinecrossfire bridge isn't complete yet. card isn't ready yet.

hence the extended discussion about audio and nothing concrete about graphics ability.

very disappointing pile of crap presented yesterday.

NaitoI don't think a proprietary API (Mantle) has much of a place in today's world. You ever wondered what mostly caused Glide's demise? On top of that, will game developers want to implement multiple versions of code, or code that can only run on a specific vendor's hardware that has ~1/3* of the market, let alone what percentage of those cards are capable of running it?