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Skud

Skud

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Got it, check this vicky:-

Farewell to DirectX? | bit-tech.net

This is what Richard Huddy, Manager of ATI’s GPU division has claimed:-

'It's funny. We often have at least ten times as much horsepower as an Xbox 360 or a PS3 in a high-end graphics card, yet it's very clear that the games don't look ten times as good. To a significant extent, that's because, one way or another, for good reasons and bad - mostly good, DirectX is getting in the way.' Huddy says that one of the most common requests he gets from game developers is: 'Make the API go away.'

'I certainly hear this in my conversations with games developers,' he says, 'and I guess it was actually the primary appeal of Larrabee to developers – not the hardware, which was hot and slow and unimpressive, but the software – being able to have total control over the machine, which is what the very best games developers want. By giving you access to the hardware at the very low level, you give games developers a chance to innovate, and that's going to put pressure on Microsoft – no doubt at all.'
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And some interesting discussion on this, here:-

The DirectX Performance Overhead - techPowerUp! Forums


PS: Let me make a correction, it's not AMD is telling the world about the negative side of DX11, actually the world is telling AMD about it. ;)
 
Omi

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I was considering the 6870 CF, some members suggested to get one 6950 2gb and add one later, while adding later was the option I was almost going ahead with I read this Radeon HD 6950 CrossfireX review
If you see the benchmarks the 6870CF is uncomfortably close to the 6950CF, while 6950 CF has added advantage of the 2GB extra vram it still doesn't go much ahead of the 6870CF, and in one game 6870CF being ahead of 6950 CF
Also *www.overclock.net/graphics-cards-general/943091-what-am-i-missing-here-6950-a.html#post12415720

I am Confused :?:

Can anyone explain

Whats up with AMD, all cards performing too close!, 6950 OCed to 6970, 6970 cannot be oced that much, 6870 gives only 10% less performance than 6950
 
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Cilus

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In full HD or 1920X1080 resolution, the performance difference between a HD 6870 CF and a HD 6950 2 GB CF is not that big. It comes handy in case of 2560X1600 or multi monitor setup.
In your post in PC Buying segment, you've mentioned that you are not gonna upgrade for 2-3 Yrs. If it is the case then just go for the HD 6870 Crossfire solution because after 2 Years adding a new HD 6950 is simply an invalid case as in the end of this year AMD is launching their 7000 series GPUs.
 
Skud

Skud

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What about gaming with 8xAA, EDAA or Supersampling? Are these going to distinguish the 6950 CFX and 6870 CFX?
 
Cilus

Cilus

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All the 890FX and 890GX based mobos can support SLI by just a simple hack, called The SLI Patch. Actually theoritically no extra hardware is required for running SLI on a CF mobo or vice versa. This support are chopped down by Firmware and Kernel level restriction. The patch I have mentioned, removed that restriction by enabling it to look like a X58 chipset to graphcis card Driver which supports both SLI and Crossfire.
For more details, Read here: -SLI Patch official doc.
 
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sinoop_joy

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Hey guys,
My 3.5 yr old 8800 GTS stopped working and i'm looking for an upgrade.

I'm having the following specs right now, but i might upgrade soon as it is pretty old

PSU : Antec 550 W (came with my Titan Cabinet)
Motherboard : Asus P5QL-EM (It has only PCI 2.0 support , i think. And is 2.1 backward compatiable ?)
Monitor : Samsung SyncMaster 2033 (1600x 900 native)
Processor : Intel C2D E6750
RAM : 4 GB

I know this is a outdated config. But i'll be upgrading soon. So i want a future proof solution(Abt 2-3 yrs).
I'm play games most of the time and love to see those crisp and images..
I want to play games in maxxed out setting atleast for the first year :mrgreen:.

My bro suggested me 560 Ti
 
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Cilus

Cilus

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Sinup_joy, my suggestion will be little different as I will suggest you a sub 13K card like HD 6870. The reason is that in coming September, AMD is gonna launch their 7000 series cards, successor of HD 6900 series which as per the rumors going to bring a new generation of performance. So rather than spending the whole 20K, get a cheaper card which will deliver you above average performance in 1600X900 resolution as you are not planning to upgrade Monitor any time sooner.

Get the Sapphire HD 6870, available @ 11.3K. Local price may be lower. It enables you to play all the current titles in highest setting @ 1600X900. Save the rest of the money for future upgrades.
 
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