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Probably because the only thing close to the 960 is the R9 380, but they wanted t list the newest tech and nVidia has nothing in the area of the 470, performance-wise. So they picked the lowest nVidia tech available that will somewhat fir the need.

460 is too low and the 380 is last gen, so 470 it is. The 960 was never a good price/performance card, but it has no replacement. They wont recommend a rumored card, like the 1050 as they don't know it's performance and not even sure it will even be brought to market.
 
The RX480 and GTX1060 I purchased some 4 weeks ago are both going strong in two different rigs. Both of these cards are well made and the kids are pretty damned happy with them. The MSI factory RX480 is a solid performer and the ASUS ROG 1060 is definitely worth the extra bucks I paid for it. The kids play different games so their choices for the cards were based around their gaming preferences. If I could get them back for some tests without losing some fingers I would have loved to spend a few hours comparing them on the 9590 vs i7 rigs ... but then the pain of having to put up wit hthe "I'm dying here" cries of teenage gamers without a rig ... <sigh> ... I know ... geeks beget geeks. Its my fault. :)
 


when it comes to minimum usually it is not about the latest series. 380 is about 960 performance. why they did not just list the minimum as 960 or 380?
 


With an Oculus Rift and their new ASW feature, even the RX 470 would be sufficient. GTX 1060 as well, of course, it just costs more.

ASW still won't work with games that only support OpenVR though, so it's probably best to stick with the 480 or 1060. Either of those will do well.
 


So far, AMD has only enabled beta ASW support on the 400 series. No word on whether older cards will receive it later.
 


Reducing Rift vr gpu fps requirement by 50% with a software change is dramatic. I'll probably still wait to see how well it works in the field and also wait for Rift vr equipment (goggles and controllers) to fall to around $500 before jumping in. $600 goggles and $200 controllers are too rich for my budget.

 


Looking at the minimums, they are all listed in terms of the most current generation of hardware. i3-6100, FX-4350, RX 470, but with no replacement for the 960 and it's performance considered the minimum on nVidia's side, it's what they could go with. The 470 is a fair amount better than the 960, but they didn't have much choice, it was the 960 or 1060, but the 1060 is much more powerful and not a good minimum spec.

Considering that the 380 is faster than the 960, i think it's safe to assume that the 380 is the minimum AMD card, but ignored as it's "so last gen", lol.
 
Fury Pro and RX-580 specifics. Might have to start a new mega thread for AMD 500 series in a few months.

http://wccftech.com/amd-vega-10-vega-11-magnum/
 
Well peoples.... the plot thickens.

What is this Magnum ???
I can't find anything on it... anybody shed some light, or even hazard a guess ?

They do seem to be doing a great job at the moment... lets see if that translates into products on shelves.

Hopefully so.
 


Early user reviews are mostly that it works really damn well.

It's not as good as running at a real 90 FPS, but it's a much better substitute than ATW - let alone plain reprojection as the Vive and PSVR do.

So it seems keeping the old minimum requirements makes sense - just offering a new minimum. If you're at the old minimums, you just get to decide between running mostly 90+ FPS, or dialing up the graphics settings and relying on ASW.
 


it is more like a work around to make it work with lower frame rates. still not as good as when the frame rate is at constant at 90. and we still need to see how real games react to it. take vive reprojection for example. some games are fine and some games show artifact when they fall into reprojection. also the point of VR needing 90FPS is because of latency and smoothness.
 


AMD is raising one billion dollars thru stock and credit for next years expansion, so 2017 should be a good year for them. A whole family of Zen chips and chip sets, Several new graphics cards, Magnum chips...

The article is the only thing I've seen on the new Magnum. More will surely follow. Since a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) is an integrated circuit designed to be configured by a customer or a designer after manufacturing – sounds like a new business venture by AMD. Custom high speed signal processing also uses these things, so they must have identified a potential new market.
 


It was nearly pointless at this point (at least for me). You could earn points, but they removed the free game contest you could spend them on so it just had some crappy in game content for some F2P games, and a couple strategy guides. It had recording features (but I don't record) and the settings optimization was a waste of time. No great loss.
 


I agree, other than the optimization offered many unsavy users options with specific game settings.
 
I won't miss the GE client at all since, much like nVidia's GFE, most of us are not their target audience.

The only little tidbit that kind of saddens me, is that the RadeonPro developer (main one?) went to AMD specifically for the GE client. I haven't read any updates on his ventures in AMD, so it would be a shame if he had to leave AMD because of this.

On the other hand, it feels like such a big missed opportunity on AMDs part by not getting RadeonPro's incredible customizing capabilities into the GE client (unless they did and I missed them). I just hope they instead focus their efforts in getting an "AMD RadeonPro" piece out there with the help of this dev or if he has more time now, to update RadeonPro once again.

Cheers!
 


I though I read he was working on the Crimson drivers and was behind all of that, because in crimson you can download specific game settings for different games.
 


http://www.radeonpro.info/2014/03/important-announcement-about-radeonpro/

"I hope to further enhance Raptr client apps – even more than they already are – by working together with all brilliant minds at Raptr development team"

The GE client was basically Raptr with a different skin, right?

Cheers!
 
Looks like AMD is shooting for a 50% price per watt improvement with the upcoming RX 400 family revisions!

"The dramatic increase in efficiency is reportedly coming from a revamped 14nm process from Global Foundries combined with some design tweaks. Somehow, AMD has managed to cut the Polaris 10 TDP from 150W down to about 95W and Polaris 11 will likely drop significantly below the 75W mark. The plan is for these revamped Polaris GPUs to hit the mobile market where efficiency is king."

http://www.eteknix.com/amd-has-new-polaris-gpu-revisions/

Hope the desktops get the touch up as well.
 


We have seen how real games react to it. You can enable it right now. And it is a big improvement over ATW, which was a significant improvement over reprojection.
 
AMD RX490 Leak Alert !!!

The said leak came from AMD's own website. Apparently, the tech giant included the AMD RX 490 in their 2016 promo that would be ending December 31. Although it's the nearest thing fans can get to a clue, it's almost enough to keep fans waiting.

It's worth noting that the said RX 490 leak has already been removed. Nevertheless, WCCFtech has captured a screenshot of the said promotion and it indeed shows an AMD RX 490 in the list.

http://www.itechpost.com/articles/40888/20161014/amd-rx490-leaked-arrival-confirmed.htm
http://wccftech.com/amd-vega-rx-490-2016-launch-4k-gaming/

Jay
 
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