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I recently went from a 280X to a Fury and was delighted with the improvement.
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AMD NANO £349 or the Zotac 980ti for £499
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Yep, we could be dead by the time the new cards come. People die everyday from random events.
Plus when the new AMD cards come, you could wait another 6 months/year for the next cards - there will always be something bigger and better coming out.
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We've been on 28nm for 4 or 5 years. The next gen is not only an architectural improvement but a new node as well. You can shrug your shoulders and say "there's always something new", but that logic doesn't always make sense.
As said before, there is a difference between buying at the start of a cycle (last year when Fiji was released) or at the very end of a cycle (new cards, new gen, new node).
The top end cards will be £500, yes. But if you're interested in the Nano, you aren't worried about top end cards and their prices.
The "new Nano" should be about £250-£300, have similar performance, lower power, better features, better connectivity.
It may even have slightly better performance, but I'm not willing to go out on a limb and say they will definitely have better performance.
Why will it be cheaper? There's no reason why a smaller chip should cost as much to manufacture than a massive chip like Fiji. The new Polaris chips coming soon are much smaller than Fiji precisely because of the die shrink. There is potential for saving some money there.
Historically you pay less for the same performance after a die shrink. We've been stuck on 28nm so long, we've forgotten what it feels like to get more for your money, but the next gen should change that.
Not sure coming soon is the best term to use, seeing as the only time frame we have heard from AMD is by the back to school period, which is September and we are just about to start February. Of course they could arrive anytime between now and then, but why say something that indicates a reasonably specific time frame, when they could have said something like, the summer giving themselves much more leeway.
