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Teh 300 serious I would expect, the Fury parts may be a good hint that the fastest Polaris will at least be close enough and so much cheaper the FuryX becomes pointless
I think if amd can get a gpu smack between the 1070 and 1080 for £400 they would have a best seller
I think they can and it could be cheaper than £400.
I think they can and it could be cheaper than £400.
Also you seen this about Pascal's Async Compute: http://wccftech.com/nvidia-gtx-1080-async-compute-detailed/
Turns out it doesn't have hardware support still, and its Ashes performance was just down to brute force Tflops. So Vega looks scarier vs big Pascal now we know that.
And just in general Polaris/Vega vs Pascal in DX12 games going forward is going to be tough on Nvidia.
Tom Peterson seems to have said otherwise in the pcper interview unless i have misunderstood something
Well unless Nvidia come out with "it's turned off in the drivers still" then the results from Ashes are conclusive.
If it's working correctly, and they gain no performance from async, then Pascal can't have hardware support.
I very much doubt the developers have had time to enable async compute for Pascal given you can't even buy Pascal yet. Its a;most certainly running the same code path as the 980ti so is meaningless.
If that turns out to be the case, that's fair enough.
But as it stands right now, there's no quantitative evidence Pascal has hardware async compute, only Nvidia's word. And they said ambiguous things about Maxwell too.
Nvidia know what they are doing and if Pascal had hardware support i think they would be shouting about it as loud as they could. They have said there support is improved which sounds like they improved the software side. AMD shout as loud as they can about it and if Nvidia could do it better you can bet they would be screaming about it instead of it's improved. AMD support it fully and i still think Nvidia don't.
AMD have a really good chance to regain some much needed market share with Polaris
Nvidia seem to have scored an own goal with the pricing of the 1080
There are writeups that explain it - and AoTS is now showing an uptick going from DX11 to 12 for the 1080 at some resolutions when running with async on vs off
I very much doubt the developers have had time to enable async compute for Pascal given you can't even buy Pascal yet. Its a;most certainly running the same code path as the 980ti so is meaningless.
When you say things like "hardware async compute" it is clear you don't really understand the complexity of what this actually means. It is complex, and AMD's marketing is doing a very good job of telling people that their way of supporting DX12 multi-engines is the only way, which is only adding to the confusion.