Wil 2014 bring us a AMD R9 290X (in crossfire) and a AMD 16-Core to the notebooks?

hello people

I'm new here in this community, so first hello to the people of this community .

But I had a question, I want to start in September 2014 with an education as a programmer, where I go towards as game developer. This will require a strong notebook.

Until now, the GTX780M is qualified as the best graphics card for laptops.

But are there some messages that the AMD AMD R9 290x (in crossfire) brings to laptop, coupled with an AMD 16-core processor?

Ik will here it from you guys!

Thanks a alot!

 

Keep dreaming buddy.

Also, welcome to NBR! :hi2:

 

16 core processor? Forget about it. Not impossible due to too high power consumption and heat output.

R9 290X inside a notebook? Nope, due to the above.
R9 290X equivalent but a mobile GPU in 20nm? Nope
8970M is 28nm greatest mobile AMD graphic card. It score almost 7000 in 3DMark11.
R9 290X score 15000 in 3DMark11. Meaning a 20nm mobile GPU will have to double its performance over the 8970M, and more...

So no to all.

 

16 core? AMD only makes a quad core at best right now, and it's about as good as an i3... Their 16 core would probably equal an i7 at best but consume 4x the power.

I'd prefer that Intel does something like ARM's BIG.little, 4 weaker cores (Bay trail) and then 4 stronger cores (Haswell), for the perfect mix of Atom-like battery life and desktop-like octocore performance. But i'm just dreaming here

 

We may begin to see six core CPU's come 2015 or 2016 in mobile devices, but nothing beyond that.

 

You can already use a 12-core Xeno E5 if you like, but 16 is still no go in the foreseeable future.

 

16-core? Even if you had that games really don't utilize more than 4-6 cores at the moment.

 

Just a heads up- universities generally don't require their CS undergrads to have amazing hardware, just sufficient enough to code on. If you have to do anything intensive, they will probably provide the hardware for you (e.g. in a computer lab). So if you're just thinking about college, I wouldn't worry about having a really good setup.

 

You can go to a CS program and complete it with a C2D laptop if you like. That's basically what I'm doing at the moment.

Maybe in grad school, you'll have some more complex problems that warrants excellent hardware, but there will be computer labs you can use, as R3d mentions.

Besides, for 3D development and the like (whatever goes on in game design), you'd likely be better off with a Quadro or FirePro anyway. GeForces are good for playing games, but I highly doubt that they'd be good at making them.

 

For DX-based DCC apps GFX cards are usually fine. But if you're not limited to DX they are still no-go.

 

Why make a thread for 16-cores when 8-cores aren't on the mobile roadmap?

 

And a desktop GPU to boot.. This thread is smoking good stuff..

 

That said I think there is a R9 M290x coming.. But the thread title is the desktop part

 

Haswell-e in a p570wm refresh is your best hope.

A pair of over clocked 780ms can match a single titan water cooled. ...

 

I wouldn't want Crossfire 290X's. Those things run at 95C, and AMD considers this a "normal operating temperature." The NVIDIA GTX 780/780Ti, even if set to 93C maximum, won't exceed 85C, even with an overclock.

 

It doesn't have to run at 95C if you don't mind turning up the fan speed to hair dryer noise levels, and 95C is within spec for this card. Not like this hasn't happened before. Remember GTX 480? That thing's regular operating temperature was around 100C. Anyway, Hawaii's high temperatures and noise levels are entirely due to the crappy AMD reference cooler. You slap on a good aftermarket cooler like the Sapphire Tri-X and suddenly it becomes much cooler and quieter than comparable Nvidia reference cards.

 

Yeah, and it also limits 'overclock-ability' with these cards, too.