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AMD Polaris architecture – GCN 4.0

ICDP said:
Oh come on, DP 1.4 is not going to start being required to get the best from monitors anytime soon. Mid Polaris and Pascal will not even be powerful enough to get 120hz at 4k in non HD in mGPU, let alone adding HD into the equation.
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I'm sure he knows that, I think what he's saying is that is how anti-AMD posters will spin it.
 
ICDP said:
Yeah, a GPU running at 1.8GHz with a 2.1 OC is around 17 percent, nothing spectacular really but not horrible (Fiji horrible) ;)
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1.6ghz is the quoted base clock with 1.8ghz boost. And this was a cherry picked part, so not all will end up clocking that high on air alone, if at all.
 
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JediFragger said:
Yup, hardly worth the switch imo. I'll be sticking for a bit :)
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It would be worth it, if the 1080 was at current 980 rrp and the 980ti ebay resale was not going to get lowered by the 1070. Overall its not really worth it, 1080ti or 1180 if you can wait that long will be the best upgrades for 980ti / titanx owners.
 
NirK said:
It would be worth it, if the 1080 was at current 980 rrp and the 980ti ebay resale was not going to get lowered by the 1070. Overall its not really worth it, 1080ti or 1180 if you can wait that long will be the best upgrades for 980ti / titanx owners.
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Yup, am handling 3440res just fine at present. Gsync is helping though in some situations
 
JediFragger said:
Yup, am handling 3440res just fine at present. Gsync is helping though in some situations
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I have the same setup, not 100% happy with the 980ti performance, but yes it is far from bad, would be nice to get 70+ in all games, but I can get that in 95% of games by lowering a few settings.
 
Worth noting the GTX 1080 only appears to be 1.55-1.6x the performance per watt of the GTX 980 (which was the most efficient card of the 28nm generation).

So if AMD get anywhere near close to their 2.5x claim (or even 2x), they should be sitting pretty.
 
ICDP said:
Yeah, a GPU running at 1.8GHz with a 2.1 OC is around 17 percent, nothing spectacular really but not horrible (Fiji horrible) ;)
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Its just about the same OC percentage what aftermarket Maxwells can do above their out of the box boost (~1300MHz to 1500MHz).
I think its more possible that the 2.1 GHz is close to its max OC than what some guys think that aftermarket cards will do 2.4GHz OC.
 
Simon Belmont said:
Confident with what? Getting there ass kicked!
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Eeeergh I hate all this fanboy speak that happens when one company announces a new product :P. Not just this guy but there's loads of it atm lol.

We haven't seen AMD's cards yet. From what I've read they are looking at offering best bang for buck at a lower tier, may not even compete with the 980 directly. Vega comes out next year from current rumors.

I'm sure AMD will be fine, what is it 40 million AMD SOC's in PS4's, not to mention XB1 and upcoming consoles. Maybe DGPU just isn't as big as a market as it once was for them.
 
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