Re: AMD's 2014 GPU preview.

On Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at 6:57:15 PM UTC-7, Skybuck Flying wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> I think I just watched what AMD likes to call AMD's 2014 GPU preview: 
> 
> http://www.livestream.com/amdlivestream/video?clipId=pla_33493acd-ba7b-4917-8caf-ff204913625b 
> 
> A presentation about their latest graphics cards and the software that will 
> use it. 
> 
> 1. The biggest dropping bombshell they had is TrueAudio. Apperently some of 
> their high-end models will have special audio chip/features which will 
> accerately and make possible new audio technologies. One them might be 
> Astounding Surround, some kind of algorithm company on the audio front. It 
> did sound kinda interesting even over crappy stereo video broadcast or so. 
> I am pretty sure this will have the competition on their toes. I do know 
> that audio plays a big roll in gaming. How good it will be on AMD remains to 
> be seen... how this will affect creative labs remains to be seen. Also 
> nvidia is not suddenly a little bit less interesting though they still have 
> cuda which might also be good for audio processing, though something 
> dedicated might work faster. 
> 
> 
> 2. Then there might be another big bombshell which remains somewhat of a 
> mystery for now... they call it "mantle". I am not sure what this is... it's 
> some kind of light wave driver that would allow developers direct access to 
> the GPU... maybe it's some kind of cuda-like thingy... or maybe it's a 
> rebranding of their old stuff. This his me somewhat interested into what it 
> is ofcourse so I will google it later to see if I can find anything more 
> about it. Later this year this will introduce/detail it more on their 
> developer conference/summit or something like that. 
> 
> 3. There was also some section about Battlefield 4... which will also 
> provide an update in december... at least they hope so... I am some what 
> skeptical that this will become a reality. Time will tell... the claim is 
> that mantle might accellerate gpu calls from the cpu 9x fold. Haha. I'd like 
> to see that first before I believe it ;) :) 
> 
> 4. Ofcourse there was also some gloating about their new gpu being faster 
> than anything else. The beginning of the presentation was about 4K monitors 
> which is very interesting. 
> Ya know... more pixels... if their GPUs can drive such a sucker remains to 
> be seen... though that would be cooooool. Then there is also eye infinity 
> for multiple monitors for those that interested in that. Which does not 
> include mean. I rather have one nice big monitor. 
> 
> So in short: 
> 
> 1. TrueAudio transisters on the GPU chip ? 
> 
> 2. Mantle light weight driver/programming api ? 
> 
> 3. Battlefield 4 might use it in december. 
> 
> 4. 4K monitors ! 
> 
> (They also managed a little bit more power efficiency... though I remain 
> skeptical... also some scaling and such from laptop to high end pc) 
> 
> 2014 gonna be a somewhat interesting year ! ;) :) 
> 
> Bye, 
> Skybuck.
Good review