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by Sebastian-Anthony (Jul, 2013)With the Xbox One now being based on an x86 architecture, and the operating system sounding suspiciously similar to Windows 8, it should be very easy to port games to Windows 8.1.
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Features Key features of the Radeon Instinct MI8
pixel rate Number of pixels a graphics card can render to the screen every second
texture rate Speed at which a graphics card can perform texture mapping
floating point performance How fast the gpu can crunch numbers
shading units Subcomponents of the gpu, these run in parallel to enable fast pixel shading
texture mapping units Built into each gpu, these resize and rotate bitmaps for texturing scenes
compute units Discrete cores within the GPU
In The News From around the web
| 10 Aug |
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AMD is continuing their trend of steadily releasing graphics drivers, and rapidly fixing important issues as they arise.
Beyond adding support for these new products, it also adds a Crossfire profile for F1 2016 and fixes a few issues, like Firefox and Overwatch crashing under certain circumstances.
| 7 Jul |
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Q3 will count two of the launch months for Windows 10, which will likely include a bunch of new and interesting devices and aligns well with back to school season.
| 29 Sep |
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Unless they had a significant increase in clock rate, I still wonder if Apple is claiming that their increase in graphics performance will come from the Metal API even though it is not exclusive to new hardware.
Which brings us back to the question of, "So what is the 50% increase in performance that Apple claims?
| 23 Sep |
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Meanwhile based on this die shot Chipworks believes that the L2 cache has been reorganized to a per-core design, as there is no obvious single block of L2 on A8 like there was A7.
The final major identifiable block on A8 is once again the SRAM cache memory.
Specifications Full list of technical specs
gpu
| GPU brand | AMD |
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| GPU name | Fiji |
| Clock speed | 1,000 MHz |
| Is dual GPU | No |
| Reference card | None |
raw performance
| Shading units | 4,096 |
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| Texture mapping units | 256 |
| Render output processors | 64 |
| Compute units | 64 |
| Pixel rate | 64 GPixel/s |
| Texture rate | 256 GTexel/s |
| Floating-point performance | 8,192 GFLOPS |
memory
| Memory clock speed | 500 MHz |
|---|---|
| Effective memory clock speed | 1,000 MHz |
| Memory bus | 4,096 bit |
| Memory | 4,096 MB |
noise and power
| TDP | 175W |
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 | AMD Radeon Instinct MI6
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 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
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 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080
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 | Nvidia GeForce GT 9600
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 | AMD Radeon R9 Nano
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 | AMD Radeon Instinct MI25
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 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 980
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