www.amd.com/us/press-releases/Pages/amd-radeon-r9-2013sept25…
The Audio bit sounds like a PhysX style gimmick. A proprietary audio system that only works on some cards is exactly what no one needs. Assuming it falls back to a software method that does the same thing, what is the point? Why not just make you game with OpenAL anyway, unless AMD gives you a huge pile of cash to stick this logo on your game.
Why do they have to change the model designations? Giant pain in the ass.
And that Mantle business doesn't sound like good news at all. Might be time to switch to Nvidia.
I thought it was a great chance to fix up the naming and make it better… which they blew completely. What does the X on the end even mean?
Will the gtx 760 drop in price once the new ati cards come along?
likely, but word is that all but 1 of the new cards are rebrands of the 7000 series so the 760 will still have the same competition with the gtx 670 and the 7950
Bad news:
"AMD introduced what it calls Mantle, a cross-platform application programming interface (that will only support Windows operating system initially) designed specifically for graphics processing units based on graphics core next (GCN) architecture, presenting a deeper level of hardware optimization."
This bad. Those who remember the bad days of vendor specific video interfaces and 5000 variants of Mech Warrior 2 might know what I mean.
Having to own the right card to play game X (at least acceptably) is a really bad thing. I thought this finally died when Nvidia bought 3DFX.