While I understood the reason for acquiring ATI, I believe ATI is worse off due to that acquisition. They are still hemorrhaging money (not nearly as bad as a year ago when they lost $1.2 BILLION, but even after restructuring to cut 31% of their operating costs, they still lost $162 million last year). We would have CPU's that are only soldered directly into motherboards with no ability to upgrade, completely locked down CPUs with no ability to overclock, locked in memory bus speeds that are tiered based on the CPU/motherboard that you purchased with higher performance memory compatibility costing you extra, etc., etc.īut I really don't see a way that AMD can compete at this point. I really hope AMD does survive because those of us that are old enough to remember know that Intel hates the consumer and only really pushes technology when it is competing. This is finally cutting into the one thing keeping AMD alive. The last two updates that Intel has made were more focused on the lower end than on the high end. On the low end, AMD was competing, until Intel decided to compete in this market segment. Fallen Kell - Thursday, Malink AMD has sadly not had a real competing product in the high end side for 6 or 7 years now.COH2 is a little odd in that it does not scale with more GPUs. For this benchmark I use modified versions of Ryan’s batch files at 1920x1080 on Ultra. To get an average 30 FPS using a normal GPU is a challenge, let alone a minimum frame rate of 30 FPS. Company of Heroes 2 also can bring a top end GPU to its knees, even at very basic benchmark settings. The final gaming benchmark is another humdinger. We run the basic benchmark program laid out in the Adrenaline benchmark tool, and the Xtreme (1920x1080, Maximum) performance setting, noting down the average frame rates and the minimum frame rates. Having an extreme SSAO setting can do that, but at the right settings Sleeping Dogs is highly playable and enjoyable. Sleeping Dogs is a benchmarking wet dream – a highly complex benchmark that can bring the toughest setup and high resolutions down into single figures.
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