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Doesn't this remind people of the 290x and the 780ti?
290x was released then the 780ti came along and it was 10%-15% faster in pretty much everything. nVidia marketed it as the 290x killer.
Year and a bit later and now the 290x is beating the 780ti in modern console ports and certain games, much to the anger of people who spent a small fortune on Kepler. Kepler was marketed as a future thinking architecture for future games, just read the nVidia marketing speak. Not sure if this is neglect by nVidia or AMD realized the full potential of the 290x, but there has been a big turn around especially in Witcher 3.
The Fury may come good in DX12 games and future console ports without gameworks enabled. Console optimization must be relevant to GCN architecture and low level DX12. Only issue I guess is the architecture isn't that much different to the 290x so AMD should have a good take on drivers already.
I think the Fury had to look good value like the 290x did against the 780ti so is a little overpriced compared to the 980ti - that water cooler, huge die and HBM is coming at a cost.
Intersting to see if the 980ti drops off in performance compared to the Fury X once Pascal is released. 14nm and HBM2 is where the real upgrade seems to be.
290x was released then the 780ti came along and it was 10%-15% faster in pretty much everything. nVidia marketed it as the 290x killer.
Year and a bit later and now the 290x is beating the 780ti in modern console ports and certain games, much to the anger of people who spent a small fortune on Kepler. Kepler was marketed as a future thinking architecture for future games, just read the nVidia marketing speak. Not sure if this is neglect by nVidia or AMD realized the full potential of the 290x, but there has been a big turn around especially in Witcher 3.
The Fury may come good in DX12 games and future console ports without gameworks enabled. Console optimization must be relevant to GCN architecture and low level DX12. Only issue I guess is the architecture isn't that much different to the 290x so AMD should have a good take on drivers already.
I think the Fury had to look good value like the 290x did against the 780ti so is a little overpriced compared to the 980ti - that water cooler, huge die and HBM is coming at a cost.
Intersting to see if the 980ti drops off in performance compared to the Fury X once Pascal is released. 14nm and HBM2 is where the real upgrade seems to be.
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