The Critical Miss Guide to GPUS

[CaitSeith]

Well, that escalated quickly...

 

[Hutzpah Chicken]

My GTX 660M still gets the job done, but I think it might need supplements soon.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

nVidia sells over-priced under-performing crap, news at 11.

 

[CrystalShadow]

Mmm. tentac... Ehehe I mean quad sli... ~blushes~

nyeh. I prefer ati... But then I also stick to things with a decent price/performance ratio.

Besides if I really wanted to show off pointless expensive tech, I'd sooner build a beowulf cluster... XD

 

[vallorn]

... and yet I'm still attracted to Erin.

welp... No time like the present to post what I found on the internet.

Spoiler

I do approve of the sizes though. However you seem to be missing out on the giant, burning hot behemoth that Radeon cards tend to become... shortly before melting and collapsing under their own mass into singularities... hmm...

 

[EeviStev]

The people who were strangely attracted to Erin are now either going to be turned off, or even more strangely attracted to her.
Either way, Corey and Grey were brave to publish this.

 

[Solo-Wing]

Meanwhile I got a brand new 960 and am sad that i am mediocre.

I see you decided to get ahead of Rule 34 and just release the stuff uncensored yourselves. Very thoughtful. In a manner of speaking.

You got me curious. Anyone got a link? Unfortunately I cannot find it.

 

[Skeleon]

Meanwhile I got a brand new 960 and am sad that i am mediocre.

I see you decided to get ahead of Rule 34 and just release the stuff uncensored yourselves. Very thoughtful. In a manner of speaking.

You got me curious. Anyone got a link? Unfortunately I cannot find it.

I'm not sure whether this is in line with the terms of service/code of conduct or not. I mean, it is from the content creators, but it wasn't posted on The Escapist intentionally. I guess I could help you out indirectly by linking you to the tweet in question, which itself has the link to the NSFW-picture, rather than linking to the picture itself. Hm. Tell you what, if you somehow manage to fix this totally broken URL, perhaps you will get to see it. I certainly can't figure out how to unscramble it, though.

https://reallynottwitter.com/GreyTheTick/status/578714988962979840

 

[Weaver]

I bet if I tried hard enough I could masturbate to this strip.

 

[The Wooster]

... and yet I'm still attracted to Erin.

welp... No time like the present to post what I found on the internet.

Spoiler

I do approve of the sizes though. However you seem to be missing out on the giant, burning hot behemoth that Radeon cards tend to become... shortly before melting and collapsing under their own mass into singularities... hmm...

That's a new one. Her neck is a hella' long though.

 

[chozo_hybrid]

Ha ha ha! So bad.

So Erin is a futanari. It's great how the things are censored just like if they were actually drawn by a Japanese person.

The last panel just confirms the joke.

Why did I choose to google that word... Why!? I should have known I wouldn't like it. Oh well, I now know what a word means now.

 

[The Wooster]

Wait...
Grey is a World of Tanks player ?

Nope. I was giving away a code I got with my new mouse.

 

[EXos]

-snip-

I am currently on the fence over getting another Titan. Like The Rogue Wolf said, these things are beast for GPU rendering. Two Titan Blacks could do what took a [email protected] 100 hundred seconds in only 12 seconds. Considering that there is also a 6 second software overhead for initiating a GPU render... I wonder if we will see the 14NM fabrication process at the end of this year or early next year, in which case I might hold off the new Titan but may have to wait more than a year from now since I would assume the consumer level cards will probably hover around the 4GB memory range though I may be pleasantly surprised.

Well the new CPU lines (Both AMD/INTEL) are slated for the beginning of next year. That and the 390x that has been teased will at least take the step to HBM. So I would presume that the new GPU from Nvidea at least will follow soon.
As for the 4gb, you'll have to readjust your view soon as both GDDR6 and HBM are already tested with double the bandwidth of GDDR5.

Personally I would wait until DDR4, HBM and GDDR6 become the standard. (Hopefully next year. ) But if you use it professionally get that extra TiTan as it will take a bit bite out of rendering time.

 

[newwiseman]

12GB of RAM on a video card is ridiculous. I'm too lazy to do the math but with PCIx16 speeds your not going to use anywhere near that much RAM with any conventional game.

 

[Arawn]

I actually stood up and clapped at this comic. Fun stuff. Funnier still the convo quotes.

 

[Paragon Fury]

So if I have a Raedon R9 290, what does that make me?

About 7/10 the size of the first penis, with twice the blood flow.

That is...enlightening, I guess?

 

[Saulkar]

-snip-

snpper

As for the 4gb, you'll have to readjust your view soon as both GDDR6 and HBM are already tested with double the bandwidth of GDDR5.

I am not quite sure what you mean here. Are you implying that the RAM will be so fast that larger VRAM banks will not be necessary due to faster streaming of data on and off the card, in which case this will not work for me as no GPU rendering software I know of is capable of streaming data on and off a card while rendering (besides the render output itself)? If you run out of VRAM while rendering then it just crashes, it is a limitation of the GPU architecture. Or are you implying that the VRAM banks of the next generation are going to be so large that I need not worry about the next Titan 6 months after the consumer level cards are released?

But if you use it professionally get that extra TiTan as it will take a bit bite out of rendering time.

I do and even one Titan is much faster than my processor but it is surprising how quickly you use up those 6GB of memory and hope that there is not that one frame that goes over. Having double that capacity would be killer as I could still go back and render those trouble frames faster than my CPU.

 

[EXos]

-snip-

snpper

-snipest-

I am not quite sure what you mean here. Are you implying that the RAM will be so fast that larger VRAM banks will not be necessary due to faster streaming of data on and off the card, in which case this will not work for me as no GPU rendering software I know of is capable of streaming data on and off a card while rendering (besides the render output itself)? If you run out of VRAM while rendering then it just crashes, it is a limitation of the GPU architecture. Or are you implying that the VRAM banks of the next generation are going to be so large that I need not worry about the next Titan 6 months after the consumer level cards are released?

Sorry was thinking in the term of gaming. The memory will be faster meaning that for gaming you don't need more Ram as it will just be processed faster.
However the density of the new Ram is higher so we'll probably see that increase too (Also because of 4K and VR coming up) on the higher end cards. But as an example the new 390x will probably beat the new Titan on games. But for rendering 12Gigs of Vram will be extremely nice.

I actually have no idea what they will do... Time will tell.

 

[thedarkfreak]

My understanding was that the Titan was a card meant for 3D rendering work, not gaming. It's just that too many PC enthusiasts think "more expensive card" = "more FPS in my games"; and nVidia's marketing department hasn't gone to any real trouble to tell them otherwise.

Anything under the GeForce/GTX brand tends to be marketed for gaming purposes. nVidia has complete other lines that they market for design work, like the Quadro series.

 

[PunkRex]

... and yet I'm still attracted to Erin.

welp... No time like the present to post what I found on the internet.

Spoiler

I do approve of the sizes though. However you seem to be missing out on the giant, burning hot behemoth that Radeon cards tend to become... shortly before melting and collapsing under their own mass into singularities... hmm...

Aaaaaaaaand saved.