Last week AMD launched its RX Vega GPUs, after much anticipation, with an availability date of August 14. While the GTX 1080 currently driving my display is plenty for my needs, I still think I will try to pick up a Vega 56 because there are some technologies and capabilities I do want. Among of the first things I would do after getting one installed and set up would be to do a second part to the Serious Statistics article I wrote, but this time looking at the different features in AMD and NVIDIA drivers, as then I would have access to both. Should end up taking some time to compile all of that data, but I do want to see frame data for technologies like Radeon Chill. I think it could be very interesting, and then I will be ready for upcoming titles that may take special advantage of other AMD technologies. Hopefully I'll be able to get one before prices skyrocket because of the mining craze.
One thing I am not so looking forward to next week though is that my current job ends the end of the week. Hopefully, with a lot of luck, something will come up, either a separate opportunity or something to let me continue on where I am, but either way, next week will be a different week in one way or another. At least that will be next week, as for now, I need to focus on this week.
Something else coming up is the release of Ryzen Threadripper, and I am very much looking forward to reviews and more information on RAM support, motherboards, and full-plate coolers because I do want to build something around 32 threads. Oh the things I should be able to do with such a build are truly wonderful.
This is looking to be an interesting month (and SNES Classic pre-orders should go up sometime this month making it even busier).
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