This year’s E3 event seems to be filled with surprises – not only gaming wise. AMD noted that it will launch an 8K capable GPU called Fiji Radeon 300.
8K? Holy jumping jacks Batman, I have yet to own a 4K capable machine. At this point, it’s better to wait for the 8K capable GPU to be released. Sure, it will cost a little bit more, fine, a lot more, but you get a much bigger, and crisper resolution.
Most people at an E3 event are interested on what new games they will be able to play in the following months, and the year to come. The majority of companies that have their own keynote are doing just so. But here comes AMD to focus only on hardware and talk about their new products – and I have to say that the Fiji Radeon 300, and its siblings, are just phenomenal.
AMD will be focusing on the company’s Future Graphic Technologies which includes High Bandwidth Memory (HBM).
“Our latest pioneering breakthrough in memory technology, smashes through performance walls and establishes a new, open industry standard,” said an AMD spokesperson.
According to the company, AMD will bring the ” new era of gaming” with their new Fiji product line – the new High Bandwidth Memory succeeds GDDR 5.
You can take a look just down below at an 8K screenshot – 7680 x 4320; that was made available by AMD. It showcases Battlefield 4. I embedded the image, but I had to resize it to fit the page. If you want to see it at its full resolution you can do so right here.
This is just jaw-dropping. I’m really curious how it’s like to play an 8K Battlefield 4 multiplayer match. I’ll most likely get distracted by all the details in the game, and I’ll get killed, or kicked for exploring.
At the current moment, we don’t know if the 8K capable graphic card will be made available for purchase right after E3 – most likely it’s going to be released sometime this Summer.
It seems that AMD is fighting back and their trying to get some of their customers back – Nvidia currently has 70% of the marketshare.
It’s been a tough period for AMD. Users have reported that AMD builds output lower performance than Nvidia builds, even though both of the builds have almost the same exact technical specifications. An 8K capable GPU might entice former customers to come back to their initial love, but it seriously depends on what the new graphic card’s price will be.
Are you thrilled about the new 8K capable GPU? Are you going to buy it when it’s made available?
