AMD Gaming Evolved Program gets Exclusive Hardware Partnership on “THIEF”

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 06/11/2013 02:32 PM | source: | 14 comment(s)

AMD today announced exclusive collaboration with Square Enix to optimize “THIEF” for the Graphics Core Next architecture in select AMD Radeon graphics processors, as well as the x86 and graphics architectures featured in AMD A-Series APUs. Developed in conjunction with the AMD Gaming Evolved program, “THIEF” will extensively leverage the advanced capabilities of AMD Radeon graphics processors including AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology for panoramic gaming, AMD CrossFire multi-GPU technology for supreme performance, and state-of-the-art DirectX 11 rendering for pristine image quality.

Even though AMD did not share any specific PC features for the new Thief game, there is a high chance to see the company’s TressFX technology being used to it. PCGamesHardware hints at some other techniques too, such as enhanced depth of field or Diffuse HDAO.

Thief will be powered by Unreal Engine 3, and it will be interesting to see whether the game will be able to handle more than three CPU cores. As we’ve seen in the current-gen era, all games that are powered by Unreal Engine 3 are optimized for tri-core CPUs. PS4 and XBOne come with eight CPU cores, so we can at least expect this title to take full advantage of four CPU cores.

The ‘THIEF’ franchise has a storied history that we are proud to join in this latest installment,” said Matt Skynner, corporate vice president and general manager, Graphics Business Unit, AMD. “We are even more pleased to work so closely with their development team to realize the vision for these games with the incredible gaming performance of a PC powered by AMD Radeon graphics. And as the exclusive hardware partner for ‘THIEF,’ we continue to demonstrate that the best experience for gamers and developers lives at AMD with the Gaming Evolved program.”

Square Enix is present at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) with a wide variety of games and demonstrations to be discovered and experienced hands-on in the South Hall at booth #1647, or online with the Square Enix Presents YouTube™ channel.

“AMD, Square Enix and Eidos-Montréal have a strong and notable relationship,” said Stephane D'Astous, general manager, Eidos-Montréal. “It was only logical that we extend the cooperative efforts of our teams to ‘THIEF,’ imbuing it with the expertise that made ‘Deus Ex: Human Revolution’ such a technical achievement. Those efforts include a broad range of exclusive performance optimizations for AMD CPUs, APUs and graphics cards, and we are excited about making our game a technology showcase on the PC platform.”

AMD also has a large presence at this year’s E3, located in the South Hall booth #423. From an array of gadgets powered by AMD APUs and CPUs, to UltraHD gaming driven by the world’s most advanced graphics cards, fans can experience AMD’s full commitment to gaming on a diverse range of state-of-the-art computing solutions.

zer0_c0ol
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#4616111 Posted on: 06/11/2013 02:56 PM

well it is only logical amd has the console market, there are no more pc ports because all is x86 now

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#4616146 Posted on: 06/11/2013 03:44 PM

Nvidia anyone ??

That's another blow to Nvidia. After AMDs white wash win on all console hardware, nvidia is loosing gaming market day by day. In the near future all most all cross platform games would be AMD hardware optimized. That in turn significantly lower driver problems on AMD hardware and game would obviously run much better on AMD Radeon GPUs. :eatme2:

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#4616206 Posted on: 06/11/2013 04:58 PM

That's another blow to Nvidia. After AMDs white wash win on all console hardware, nvidia is loosing gaming market day by day. In the near future all most all cross platform games would be AMD hardware optimized. That in turn significantly lower driver problems on AMD hardware and game would obviously run much better on AMD Radeon GPUs. :eatme2:

Who cares? Ban HIV and possible other diseases treatment for AMD fanboys and it's over. :banana:

http://www.eweek.com/innovation/nvidia-gpu-cray-supercomputer-power-hiv-research-breakthrough/

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#4616255 Posted on: 06/11/2013 06:03 PM

Who cares? Ban HIV and possible other diseases treatment for AMD fanboys and it's over. :banana:

http://www.eweek.com/innovation/nvidia-gpu-cray-supercomputer-power-hiv-research-breakthrough/

Lmao

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#4616498 Posted on: 06/11/2013 10:44 PM

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#4616529 Posted on: 06/11/2013 11:23 PM

Who cares? Ban HIV and possible other diseases treatment for AMD fanboys and it's over. :banana:

http://www.eweek.com/innovation/nvidia-gpu-cray-supercomputer-power-hiv-research-breakthrough/
hahahaha

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#4616536 Posted on: 06/11/2013 11:27 PM

I just want The Division on PC

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#4616550 Posted on: 06/11/2013 11:39 PM

Let's assume nvidia will lose gaming market to AMD, and AMD will not have competition ,trust me the price WILL go higher and they can do whatever they want, some people see nvidia is the devil with the Titan price(F***ing high yea) that is because AMD pose no treat at all in that segment.

For all consumers i hope the battles between nvidia and AMD will last, and so yet AMD have great bundles, won the consoles, got excellent exclusives but still nvidia is not out, not even close, we stay tune and see

Nvidia come one year later with Titan, who is at maximum 20-30% faster of the old 7970ghz ( even if GK110 was present on HPC 6 month before for exclusive HPC system ( called titan in Texas ) ..

And yes, AMD have decide to not release anything before the end of the year it seems ( maybe finally not, we will now this thoses next days, rumors say Sea Island cancelled, Volcanic Islan replace it for the end of the year, but like Nvidia have finally move on with GK110, maybe AMD could push Sea Island finally for compet in term of marketing ) ..

Now, they have just get one contract more with GE, nothing more, most big games have been put under GE this last year. .. good for AMD publicity, maybe the game will be a bit more optimized for AMD at release, even if im not sure of it ( outside if it use DX11.1 , who is not supported by Nvidia in hardware )... But i hope we will not see this..

For now, and for most of the Gaming evolved games, they have follow the rules ( theres got some little things with TR and TressFX and Dirt, but thats all ), and i really hope on the performance side AMD will respect the rules and dont pull down performance of Nvidia cards without any reason for Thief too.

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#4616562 Posted on: 06/11/2013 11:53 PM

Nvidia come one year later with Titan, who is at maximum 20-30% faster of the old 7970ghz ( even if GK110 was present on HPC 6 month before for exclusive HPC system ( called titan in Texas ) ..

And yes, AMD have decide to not release anything before the end of the year it seems ( maybe finally not, we will now this thoses next days, rumors say Sea Island cancelled, Volcanic Islan replace it for the end of the year, but like Nvidia have finally move on with GK110, maybe AMD could push Sea Island finally for compet in term of marketing ) ..

Now, they have just get one contract more with GE, nothing more, most big games have been put under GE this last year. .. good for AMD publicity, maybe the game will be a bit more optimized for AMD at release, even if im not sure of it ( outside if it use DX11.1 , who is not supported by Nvidia in hardware )... But i hope we will not see this..

For now, and for most of the Gaming evolved games, they have follow the rules ( theres got some little things with TR and TressFX and Dirt, but thats all ), and i really hope on the performance side AMD will respect the rules and dont pull down performance of Nvidia cards without any reason for Thief too.

I don't know, it depends how much all this is costing AMD.

Not saying AMD should add features that trip up Nvidia cards, but if Nvidia card's benefit just as much it feels like Nvidia owners get the best of both worlds while AMD owners don't.

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#4616594 Posted on: 06/12/2013 12:38 AM

Let's assume nvidia will lose gaming market to AMD, and AMD will not have competition ,trust me the price WILL go higher and they can do whatever they want

Just like Intel over AMD CPU's.

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#4616600 Posted on: 06/12/2013 12:44 AM

They didnt do it with Crysis 3. It has TXAA which is exclusive for Nvidia cards on an AMD game.

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#4616619 Posted on: 06/12/2013 01:17 AM

Who cares? Ban HIV and possible other diseases treatment for AMD fanboys and it's over. :banana:

http://www.eweek.com/innovation/nvidia-gpu-cray-supercomputer-power-hiv-research-breakthrough/

This is the single, dumbest post I've ever read.

Which, btw, the game "Fold It" preceeded this by roughly 1.5 years....

The results of the "Fold It" game....
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27083_3-20108365-247/foldit-game-leads-to-aids-research-breakthrough/
http://techland.time.com/2011/09/19/foldit-gamers-solve-aids-puzzle-that-baffled-scientists-for-decade/
http://phys.org/news/2012-01-foldit-gamers-protein-crowdsourcing.html

And who wants treatments, when the results of the "Fold It" game make a vaccine/cure possible?

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#4616621 Posted on: 06/12/2013 01:26 AM

he was obviously butthurt by that nvidia bashing, you know how are diehard nv fanboys :grin:

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#4616760 Posted on: 06/12/2013 08:25 AM

More TressFX? :banana:

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