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AMD Polaris architecture – GCN 4.0

LoadsaMoney said:
Crazy if you think you can't go Nvidia because of FreeSync, i love this screen, i can happily game on 144Hz without FreeSync, like i did before, like i said above, and i need to upgrade, as im only on a 4GB Fury, so Nvidias my only option, the 1080 smacks the Furys silly, its not even funny, and has more than 4GB vram, which just isn't enough, AMD is not an option for me, as they don't have an upgrade path.
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Freesync is just to good to loose out on, going back to normal screen after seeing what Freesync does is a something I'd never consider. I have another monitor I use, using that going from Freesync gaming is just horrible.
 
Gregster said:
Is it today that AMD make a Polaris announcement or have I got that wrong?
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as far as rumors go, polaris 10 is launching 1st june, computex is from 31May to 1st june.
18May is a webinar for AMD parteners, probably OEMs, AIBs etc, so still have 2 weeks to go.
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Crazy if you think you can't go Nvidia because of FreeSync, i love this screen, i can happily game on 144Hz without FreeSync, like i did before, like i said above, and i need to upgrade, as im only on a 4GB Fury, so Nvidias my only option, the 1080 smacks the Furys silly, its not even funny, and has more than 4GB vram, which just isn't enough, AMD is not an option for me, as they don't have an upgrade path.
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I had an EVGA SC+ 980Ti with a hybrid cooler that would hold 1525 OC with a mild voltage tweak. I sold it and bought a single Fury and a 4K 32" IPS Freesync Monitor. At 4K the 980Ti max OC was around 30% faster than a Fury in 4K but the Fury consistently gives much better and smoother gameplay experience because of the Freesync.

Getting 35 FPS with Freesync feels far superior to getting 46 without. Now the 1080 will be around 15% faster again at max OC but even then I would prefer adaptive sync.

My advice is to wait until Vega is available (only 4-6 months) and you will get a substantial increase in performance.
 
TonyTurbo78 said:
Freesync is just to good to loose out on, going back to normal screen after seeing what Freesync does is a something I'd never consider. I have another monitor I use, using that going from Freesync gaming is just horrible.
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Depends what games you play. I rarely play anything that drops below 60 fps anyway since I play at 1920x1200. When I go for an all-out upgrade (probably when my monitor finally dies - it currently needs turning off and on after every boot to get rid of dodgy colours), nVidia's lack of Freesync would almost certainly put me off. With 2160p and probably 1440p as well, I couldn't imagine not wanting Freesync.
 
I'd agree that it would be an awful shame for me to forgo the Freesync capability on my display to go back to nV. However, it's looking more and more like that will be the case since a) I'm sure as heckfire not going back to Crossfire and b) a single P10 doesn't look like it will perform where I need it to at 1440p. I just can't justify compromising on performance to be able to use the feature.
 
They have a meet the experts webinar at 2PM today, ill be taking part as part of my job. Not certain what they are covering, but I thought I read something about Polaris. It's only for 30 minutes, so I doubt it will cover much. There are Q and A sessions after, but obviously they are careful with what they say.

The last one I took part in was talking about the Fury, before it was released. I left that webinar feeling excited about the product and felt massively underwhelmed when it was released a little while after. I'll be interested in what they have to say today, but lots of salt will be taken.
 
LoadsaMoney said:
but shiney, new :( :p
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Be strong loads. With what you got, you will get a lot more pleasure jumping to vega/big pascal.

What monitor you got by the way? :)

northwestdakota said:
They have a meet the experts webinar at 2PM today, ill be taking part as part of my job. Not certain what they are covering, but I thought I read something about Polaris. It's only for 30 minutes, so I doubt it will cover much. There are Q and A sessions after, but obviously they are careful with what they say.

The last one I took part in was talking about the Fury, before it was released. I left that webinar feeling excited about the product and felt massively underwhelmed when it was released a little while after. I'll be interested in what they have to say today, but lots of salt will be taken.
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Well if you are able, do post and let us know if there is any interesting information that comes out of it.

I agree they over hyped the Fury X and at the price it ended up selling for it was a bit of a fail.
 
Relentless81 said:
This is the info I'm waiting for and unless P10 can do 1440P Ultra settings better than my 290X can then I wont be buying anything but we dont know this yet
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Same situation for me! My 290X runs stuff between 40-60fps at these settings but I'm fine with it as I have freesync, but what I want is a card that can run at over 100fps. I think I might need to wait for Vega for that.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
The problem is that unless the GTX1070 matches the GTX980TI,then at under £400 performance has not improved that much at all.
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No reason why it shouldn't. The 1080 is ~30% quicker than a 980ti and the 1070 has 75% of the shaders but similar clocks so should be in the ball park of 980ti performance.
 
Jono8 said:
No reason why it shouldn't. The 1080 is ~30% quicker than a 980ti and the 1070 has 75% of the shaders but similar clocks so should be in the ball park of 980ti performance.
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Well the GTX1080 has 33% more shaders and 25% more bandwidth too.

The sad thing is that it only makes it 20% faster than a £300 R9 390X too if GTX980TI level performance:

https://tpucdn.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_1080/images/perfrel_2560_1440.png

I really hope the ACTUAL GTX1070 price is closer to £300 instead but it worries me the Founders Edition will jack prices up nearly to £400.
 
Jono8 said:
No reason why it shouldn't. The 1080 is ~30% quicker than a 980ti and the 1070 has 75% of the shaders but similar clocks so should be in the ball park of 980ti performance.
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Not similar clocks

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Jono8 said:
No reason why it shouldn't. The 1080 is ~30% quicker than a 980ti and the 1070 has 75% of the shaders but similar clocks so should be in the ball park of 980ti performance.
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Yea but if the rumor of it using GDDR5 memory instead of GDDR5x memory was true, it also mean it would have only half the memory bandwidth of the 1080 on the same memory clock.
 
Jono8 said:
I hope that isn't true, otherwise it is a bit tame. The 1080 only has a 180w tdp and is nearly twice the performance of the 390/390x.
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People expecting Polaris 10 to be a big heavy-hitter are probably going to be disappointed, imo. I think the first thing AMD are trying to do, is produce something with fantastic performance per watt. Because what they want is the far more lucrative mobile market. And I believe they'll get it.

High-end discrete GPUs will come later, I think. I'm personally just interested to see what the new architecture can do and how power-thirsty it is, at this point.
 
chroniclard said:
So given current speculation will AMD have anything to combat the 1080, this year?
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I'd give it 50/50. What I do know is that the 1080 is just the principle that if you throw enough power at anything, you can get it to go faster. 1080 isn't any real development of what we have already. It's basically the same with a little bit more squeezed out of it. When AMD do give us a new high-end GPU based on Vega, I have every expectation it will blow the socks of the 1080. I just don't know if that will be before the year end, or not.
 
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