Rumor: Nvidia Mobile Pascal-GPUs during Computex 2016 - not Desktop
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kinggavin
when i look at windows 10 with the store and the apps xbox app it makes me wonder if microsoft will come out with sme kind of windows 10 xbox-pc hybrid type gaming device which is portable with nvidia pascal gpus in it
Fender178
Hmm interesting. Well considering that this is a rumor we can wait and hope for more information and clarification from Nvidia. I hope we get more information about the desktop cards and whether or not they are going to have more than 4gb Vram for the 1070 and 1080.
Undying
Not long ago nvidia said that new mobile Maxwell based GPU's are coming, 970mx and 980mx.
This seems just like the title said, a rumor and probably fake.
Denial
GeniusPr0
HonoredShadow
So is it true what some guys have been saying in the forum of late that these and the big day pascal are not going to be great at Direct X 12? Essentially they are Maxwell ++?
If true I will wait till Volta and more DirectX 12 games.
Denial
HonoredShadow
Well that's good to hear. Damn people and their opinions veiled as truth...
Denial
HonoredShadow
Yer I been keeping up to date. One thing I don't understand is that if DX12 is meant to be less reliant on drivers how come we need a driver fix for Async to fix it?
Ieldra
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9659/fable-legends-directx-12-benchmark-analysis/2
This is the other: http://anandtech.com/show/10067/ashes-of-the-singularity-revisited-beta/6 (the recent beta, not the old)
asynchronous compute exists to take advantage of idle hardware, in simple terms - if you turn it off and the code performs better, you should probably keep it off.
Contrary to popular belief 'async compute effects' don't exist, you're still running those operations on the same hardware; as somebody said "GPUs are already embarrassingly parallel" - the main advantage of 'async', from what I've been able to glean, is concurrency; ie: executing an operation (eg timewarp) without it having to wait in queue for whatever shader was running previously. This is useful when you're optimizing for latency, such as in VR - a benchmark for which nvidia was lambasted as being hugely inferior to AMD, and the issue afaik was then fixed in a driver update - queue people claiming these things can't be fixed in a driver because it's a hardware problem.
I mean take a look at these fable legends results
http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph9659/1080pi7.png
http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/FableLegends.png
noticing any strange inconsistencies ? It's odd to say the least
Also from the say extremetech feature on fable, they have this graph
http://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/AMD-Perf1.png
leaving aside the fact I don't know what these numbers mean, let's take this to be a perfect representation of performance in this game;
Fury X outperforms a Ti, more interestingly a 390X is almost on par with r9 fury
(I could have sworn there was an article about the fix for vr latency but I can't find it I found this https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/3rsezo/new_nvidia_driver_finally_allowed_me_to_try_vr/)
If you're really interested read through this thread, somebody wrote a simple program to test pure compute and mixed loads on both gcn and maxwell
https://forum.beyond3d.com/threads/dx12-performance-discussion-and-analysis-thread.57188/page-9#post-1869030
https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/3gwnsm/nvidia_gameworks_vr_sli_test/
TLDR: We need more information about everything
On top of nobody knowing much about pascal yet, except that it's much faster for neural network applications, we don't know much about DX12 performance yet. There have been two benchmarks, two.
This is one : Denial
HonoredShadow
That's interesting and answers a few questions. Thanks guys. Will be watching these cards closely.
GeniusPr0
Not only does Fable not emphasize async compute, but nvidia has its own path, and amd theirs AFAIK.
In the context of DX12 and what can and should be done with async compute, AMD has it right.
Arguing about the semantics is useless. One is on one's own to determine what or shouldnt be explained.
Ieldra
GeniusPr0
It is a misnomer.
Denial
Ieldra
Fox2232
Ieldra