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In a VentureBeat interview with Raja Koduri, head of the Radeon Technologies Group at AMD, the company continues to advocate for virtual reality running at "16K resolution" at up to 240 Hz:
When Advanced Micro Devices created its own stand-alone graphics division, Radeon Technologies Group, and crafted a new brand, Polaris, for its upcoming graphics architecture, it was an admission of sorts. AMD championed the combination of processors and graphics into a single chip, dubbed the accelerated processing unit (APU). But the pendulum swung a little too far in that direction, away from stand-alone graphics. And now it's Raja Koduri's job to compensate for that.
I interviewed Koduri at the 2016 International CES, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas last week. He acknowledged that AMD intends to put graphics back in the center. And he said that 2016 will be a very big year for the company as it introduces its advanced FinFET manufacturing technology, which will result in much better performance per watt — or graphics that won't melt your computer. Koduri believes this technology will help AMD beat rivals such as Nvidia. AMD's new graphics chips will hit during the middle of 2016, Koduri said.
Beyond 2016, Koduri believes that graphics is going to get more and more amazing. Virtual reality is debuting, but we won't be completely satisfied with the imagery until we get 3D graphics that can support 16K screens, or at least 16 times more pixels on a screen that[sic] we have available on most TVs today. Koduri wants to pump those pixels at you at a rate of 240 hertz, or changing the pixels at a rate of 240 times per second. Only then will you really experience true immersion that you won't be able to tell apart from the real world. He calls it "mirror-like" graphics. That's pretty far out thinking.
AMD's "Polaris" GPUs will be released sometime during the summer of 2016. Along with AMD's "Zen" CPUs and APUs, Polaris GPUs will be built using a 14nm FinFET process, skipping the 20nm node.
(Score: 2) by ThePhilips on Monday January 18 2016, @07:31PM
Why as a consumer should I care about who is the "best" or the "worst" in the business?
Why I should inflict on myself the pains - and worsen my life experience - only to make a political/religious statement? which wouldn't change anything to anybody, except bragging rights and fake feeling of self-righteousness on the internet forums?
The problem is that even if I would support AMD/ATI with my buying decisions, they would still pocket the profits and deliver the same shoddy hardware/software as before. I sucker "bought" it before, so it must be "good enough" to sell, after all. If I had seen at least some shimmer of hope, I might have. But we have played the shell game with the ATI/AMD's open documentations and open-source drivers for about a decade now - with the same level of progress for, like, forever. Names and buzzwords come and go, the uselessness of the open source driver stays. Heck, the current devels even nixed the perfectly working 2D driver for older ATI hardware from X11, leaving bunch of people hanging, while failing to deliver any usable alternative for years now.
AMD is far from perfect themselves, but NVidia are still the worst in the business. Just ask the Nouveau developers.
That statements reeks of either childish naivete or religious fundamentalism.
Me, I am a consumer. I do not give a damn about how two for-profit companies relate to each other. Just like they do not give a damn about me.
(Score: 1) by Arik on Tuesday January 19 2016, @01:05AM
That's just sad man.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 19 2016, @08:08AM
a) vote wisely with their wallets day by day
b) vote wisely with their bullets clip by clip in an armed revolution.
(Score: 2) by ThePhilips on Tuesday January 19 2016, @08:58AM
You refer to a different matter: action and decision when faced with a choice.
In consumer market, as long as the money are not huge constrain, one does not need to decide or think or choose: one just looks at the reviews and benchmark and test results.
But when it comes to politics, wars and revolutions, it is really a different - volatile - situation. Nothing is known for sure, since the competing parties intentionally muddy the waters. Especially today, the wars are won not on the battlefields anymore, they are won on the news channels.
(Score: 2) by ThePhilips on Tuesday January 19 2016, @08:48AM
Me, I am a consumer.
That's just sad man.
As I said:
Why I should inflict on myself the pains - and worsen my life experience - only to make a political/religious statement? which wouldn't change anything to anybody, except bragging rights and fake feeling of self-righteousness on the internet forums?
Who of us is sad? Who's living intentionally a miserable life?
(Score: 2) by Arik on Tuesday January 19 2016, @04:38PM
Do you have a job? Do you work for a living? Do you live within your means?
If so you should not denigrate yourself as a mere 'consumer' - you are not a leech, you are first a PRODUCER and only CONSUME after you PRODUCE.
"'Why I should inflict on myself the pains - and worsen my life experience - only to make a political/religious statement? which wouldn't change anything to anybody, except bragging rights and fake feeling of self-righteousness on the internet forums?'
Who of us is sad? Who's living intentionally a miserable life?"
Obviously you are. The twisted way you justify yourself here makes that very clear. A healthy, happy person would not need to denigrate others as 'fake' and 'self-righteous' here. That's utter nonsense, of course - but your need to believe it seems very revealing.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by ThePhilips on Tuesday January 19 2016, @09:01PM
Wow.