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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: terrydew on September 28, 2013, 08:02:38 AM

Title: Amd Radeon R9 290
Post by: terrydew on September 28, 2013, 08:02:38 AM

Will the new audio capabilities of these new cards be of any benefit to AH? What about Mantle? Looks like this card will be king of the hill for a while anyway.

Title: Re: Amd Radeon R9 290
Post by: gyrene81 on September 28, 2013, 01:35:53 PM

the existing embedded audio chips cause problems, unless amd is doing something totally different with the r7/r9 gpu's, i wouldn't hold my breath.

Title: Re: Amd Radeon R9 290
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on September 29, 2013, 11:15:58 AM

Quote from: terrydew on September 28, 2013, 08:02:38 AM

Will the new audio capabilities of these new cards be of any benefit to AH? What about Mantle? Looks like this card will be king of the hill for a while anyway.

Mantle only works on the game titles that support it. Time will tell if developers accept it widely or not. The console dominance of AMD probably helps with the adoption.

Title: Re: Amd Radeon R9 290
Post by: SirNuke on September 29, 2013, 04:36:42 PM

Quote from: MrRiplEy[H] on September 29, 2013, 11:15:58 AM

Mantle only works on the game titles that support it. Time will tell if developers accept it widely or not. The console dominance of AMD probably helps with the adoption.

yeah that should make game portage from consoles to PC easier too

looks like I was right to skip the 7000 series  :)