While not an issue on everyone’s mind, AMD is also taking advantage of this launch to bolster its 4K capabilities. Here’s the takeaway, though: Game developers have long had programmable shaders to work with picture the same sort of flexibility with audio. There’s no way for anyone outside of AMD and its partner companies to test TrueAudio at this point, so right now, it’s just a waiting game until support gets here. I am not an audio guy – far from it – so there’s not a whole lot I can talk about at this point. A common goal with audio is to allow us to pinpoint where a sound is coming from that’s one of AMD’s goals here, but what makes it all the more interesting is that we’re meant to get that benefit even from stereo output. With its DSP “TrueAudio”, the company (partnered with others) hopes to redefine our expectations of gaming audio. It’s not often that we hear (no pun) a GPU vendor talk about audio, but that was one of AMD’s major focuses at its event in Hawaii. Given its other couple of changes, the results are sure to be interesting.Ī bit of a repeat from our 280X look as it pertains to this as well: For now, let’s tackle the current and upcoming lineup: AMD RadeonĪMD has cut the core count down to 60% on the R9 270X, versus the R9 280X, though the 270X has a slightly higher top-end clock speed. Admittedly though, 1080p isn’t quite as strenuous as it once was, so as we did last week, we’re going to involve 2560×1440 testing along with a single multi-monitor resolution of 4800×900 (3×1).Īt the moment, AMD is still keeping mum on its upcoming flagship, the R9 290X, but expect that to change soon. NVIDIA’s GTX 660 was designed out-of-the-gate to support such a resolution with current games no problem at its launch, so it’s no surprise to see AMD do the same with its R9 270X. The most common gaming resolution at the moment is 1080p – or 1920×1080 to be more specific. At AMD’s launch last week, both cards retailed for $199 post-launch, NVIDIA dropped its pricing by $20~25. The cards in question are AMD’s Radeon R9 270X and NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 660. In this article, we’ll be taking a look at a similar match-up, but at a different price-point: $200. After putting AMD’s Radeon R9 280X through the ringer against NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 760 last week, we discovered that AMD had established itself as the bang-for-the-buck leader at that given $250~$300 price-point.
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