AMD Radeon Pro Duo Preview and Details
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DeadlyBGShadow
This Product was delayed for the VR market as some speculate but what i think is that:
It's late for the gamers market.
It's late for the VR development market.
It's late for the VR consumer market.
It's priced out of most peoples market.
Unless you are making VR Arcade franchise this year or have money to spend this product is not for you.
Ieldra
It's dual 4GB HBM, best VR single card right now, will have 8GB memory in games that support multi-adapter in DX12, it can do all these things but I want us all to take a step back and ask the eternal question.
Can it run CRYSIS?
GhostXL
No thanks on this one. Seriously if my 980's had more Vram I'd not even think about an upgrade to the GTX 1080. Even at 4 GB's, I'm running low on Vram in some newer titles...otherwise GTX 980 SLI is fast enough for me.
IF this dual board can barely match GTX 970 performance...I don't see the point.
VR development or not.
GeniusPr0
vase
GeniusPr0
http://www.guru3d.com/index.php?ct=articles&action=file&id=12873
980, 980 2-way, 980 3-way
vase
Denial
It's also possible that it's just margin of error in the benchmark. There are a number of xfire 3dmark GPU scores that are over 100%. I doubt many sites run the benchmarks multiple times and average the score.
That being said, when the site saw that result, they should have reran it or tried to explain it. But lazy journalism for pageviews is ez. Especially when there are only like 2 sites with a pro duo to review in the first place.
Edit:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-480-3-way-sli-crossfire,2622-12.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-6970-radeon-hd-6950-cayman,2818-18.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-480,2585-14.html
http://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/6525252/fs/6525156/fs/6525107/fs/6524667/fs/6525203
Few examples where you see 100%+ scaling on both SLI and Xfire. That's not to say that the 970 results here aren't BS, but it does happen.
vase
Denial
http://developer.download.nvidia.com/presentations/2008/NVISION/NVISION08_MGPU.pdf
Page 14 and page 44. Page 44 shows an example where 4 GPU's are 11x faster then 1 GPU. Granted, it's a specific scenario, but yeah, it clearly happens in various different instances.
I mean I agree, but isn't that just another explanation as to how the 970 SLI result is possible?
Also another interesting thing here:
Ryu5uzaku
bombardier
Twiddles
edilsonj
bombardier
grapher
Tombraider framerates
to the Tomb Raider... well yea. in 4k DX11:
MP: 51.18 (min 1.77, max:131.25)
Syria: 46.37 (min 6.66, max 102.73)
GV: 35.35 (min 3.82, max 92.18)
Overall: 44.19 FPS
The game is shuttered, dont know how to describe it better 🙂 its not running smooth (i think those are the peaks with minimum values).
4k DX12
MP: 28.10 (min 17.26, max: 48.75)
Syria: 24.67 (min 10.34, max:44.34)
GV: 24.20 (min 20.91, max:36.51)
Overall 25.71 FPS
But, the game runs smoothly (yes, with some slower parts with 10FPS)
So from my point of view, its not game where i would like to show the power of dualCore card :bang: