EU Could Cripple future graphics cards
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GhostXL
It was only a matter of time before this was coming. I mean, it may not be so bad if you think about it. Maybe this will force developers to use the current generations features instead of ignore them all of the time.
And by that I mean DX11 and Tessellation. C'mon Devs out there, you know what I'm talking about here. Let DX9 go, keep it an option to enable or disable DX11 more often.
Use and have fun with what you can access through DX11. We sorta need to put hardware on halt imo anyway, and let software catch up.
Microsoft can keep releasing DX 12, DX 13...DX 14 or whatever all they want. Developers still wont use those until more users catch up to more current DX11 hardware.
Spets
Sure but that'll be because we'll be sitting on current gen. performance for a long time just to suit the EU's standards. Considering this generation is pretty good when it comes to power/performance and still doesn't meet the requirements, we won't see decent performance cards each gen.
They need to put more thought into their restrictions, the way they're doing it will ruin progress and the companies.
Præses
WTH has memory speed to do with it? How about putting limits on the wattage require to say, run the memory, fully utilized GPU etc? That way, more efficient technologies ("green") will be used rather than keeping technology behind i.e. develop new gDDR with lower voltages etc.
Efficiency = performance/watt
Ven0m
Limiting memory bandwidth makes no sense at all.
These guys have not enough real-life problems and way too much time to come up with such bs!
rl66
as i work with EC law all the time i can tell you that it is not the most stupid one they are doing... :banana: some are worse (yes it is possible lol)
99% of EC seem to be done by moron and citizen have no word to said about it... maybe it is the reason why we are more and more nationalist in EC (not even talking about EC tax that kill any innovative thing...)...
Bad or not future will tell us as alway.
rl66
nope AMD is as NVidia 🙁 (yeah intel's discrete suck anyway)
Noisiv
Oh so now it's "could cripple".
Original article @[Nordic Hardware Exclusive] stated EU cripples future graphics cards
Of course this PRELIMINARY REPORT that NordicHardware's full-retard scribble points to, still has nothing to do with imposing 320GB/s Bandwidth upper limit.
Let me repeat that: NH IS FULL OF $#&*, THERE ARE NO MENTIONS OF UPPER BW LIMIT IN THE REPORT WHATSOEVER
Ven0m
Why would putting restrictions on one part of the computer be good or fun? Who needs tweaking if you could buy a better card to start with? Or buy a better card and tweak the **** out of it?
The only way I can see the sense in this statement is releasing a crippled card with some kind of "unlock" feature.
Gromuhl'Djun
If this is true, it's one of the most dumbest ways to do it.
Really? Limiting memory bandwith by law? Why would you do that?
I can imagine putting limits on energy usage, but this would mean that if the limit is reached, that a more energy efficient GPU of the next generation would be banned and an energy hungry one of this generation is ok.
....Incompetence, the bane of our civilisation.
H83
This is BLASPHEMY!!!!
God will unleash his wrath over the idiots who are even considering this!
It´s amazing how the EU is going down the drain and people waste time on this kind of things...
S3nt3nc3
too much free time behind the desk in the office can lead to most ridiculous thoughts.
ex. banana shape regulations
Rich_Guy
Am i missing something, its only for discrete and Integrated isn't it, so won't affect us.
Tat3
In other words, drop high-end cards from EU market and make people buy those from le States or so ?
lucidus
All we know they'll follow MS' approach as they did with the "N" versions of Windows .. just supply Europe with a different BIOS, though warranty may be an issue if people start fooling around.
BLEH!
THis is getting ridiculous now, damn beaurocracy.. Sooner the UK has a referendum to get out of the EU the better.
Rich_Guy
Yeah thats what i missed :P
Noisiv
There is a mention of 320GB/s, in this working document, and only so far to classify PC with such GPU, and to actually exempt it from regulations (kWh/year) .
bemaniac
DW guys we'll import our 8990s and 790s and overclock them in sli/xfire still and we'll use 1200watt psus because we can and because they tell us we can't. Stupid law gets ignored 🙂 I was straining with rage when reading this story and it became the first ever news story that made me fart accidentally.
Brasky
Don't worry, I'll happily ship any graphics cards over to the EU countries for a nominal fee!
Elder III
If this was a TDP/Wattage limitation then I could at least understand the logic behind it; as it is, this makes very little sense at all. :/
