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I won't be buying a 980 if that's what you're implying
So you are saying a 970 is good enough to beat a 780Ti now?
Why not if they got low power usage on card, nothing stops them from adding more cores... other than milking the market and watching what AMD will do first.
Here lies a big part of the problem...amd. we really needed the 290x to smash gk110 out of the park to turn the screw on nvidia, unfortunately it didn't and here we are looking at New cards with a 10% gain in the face 18 months after the titan hit the market...progression
Here lies a big part of the problem...amd. we really needed the 290x to smash gk110 out of the park to turn the screw on nvidia, unfortunately it didn't and here we are looking at New cards with a 10% gain in the face 18 months after the titan hit the market...progression
Intel doesn't make huge improvements to their CPUs because... Amd. Nvidia doesn't make huge improvements to their GPUs because... Amd. Listening to some of you lads, one would think Amd has godlike powers in the world of computing.
the 290x did smash the gk110 in some areas it just didn't have the memory to last into next gen gaming or monitors that 8gb card sapphire released was the 4k stomper and AMD let it go. Now anything they do is reactionary.
price drops etc boring. AMD had a chance to hit a home run.
price drops etc boring. AMD had a chance to hit a home run.
Intel doesn't make huge improvements to their CPUs because... Amd. Nvidia doesn't make huge improvements to their GPUs because... Amd. Listening to some of you lads, one would think Amd has godlike powers in the world of computing.
I don't think it's so much that they are godlike, but they are the only company in either the CPU or GPU market that can - or at least should be able to - challenge Intel or nVidia
Spot on.
Stiff competition breads progression.
It's not to say amd isn't competitive, it's that they need to be the ones setting the bar not matching it.
Mantle is a good example of this.
Titanor for cheaper and reasonably less performance multiple 6GB 780s could have done a job but NVIDIA only sold them for a short time. Shame there is no 6GB 780Ti innit
780s are not an option, NVidia does not support 4 way SLI with them in the drivers lol.
One area the 290Xs do have a big advantage is 4 way performance @4K, right up to the point where they run out of memory.
It is quite interesting seeing things swap round in a benchmark
@1080p the GK110s are on top.
@1600p it's level pegging.
@4K the Hawaii GPUs are on top.
The above is a generalisation of what tends to happen.
If only AMD had given their cards 8gb to work with the 512bit bus @4K.
It's known as planned obsolescence. Both Nvidia and AMD are limiting the life span of their products to force consumers to buy a replacement, it is nothing new and has been practised by companies since at least the 1920s.
There was a documentary series about it on the BBC not to long ago, sadly it is not on iPlayer at the moment.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01zxmrv
Downgrading him to an old intel motherboard seems a bit harsh.
Old and redundant...
i think they didn't do it becuase of the wow factor for the 295x2
just like there is no 780ti 6gb.
Annoyed I can't speculate till launch now
got plenty to say about the rumours but meh i've been told