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AMD teasing new product, is it Radeon or FirePro?
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Sometimes I get the impression you all think a card is completed and ready to ship within a week 
Thats not necessarily true, its just got to compete with it, not beat it.
Will be interesting to see what they come up with and if its Tonga based, what a full fat chip can do performance/power wise
Well the Gm204 clearly doesn't cost them a fortune to make ( as indicated by the 970's release price). I guess they just thought they can make a massive margin on the 980 as it will have flagship status and then just punish AMD with a a low margin on the 970.
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So with crossfire I can cover upstairs AND downstairs?
I am going to go out on a limb and say Radeon, purely because they HAVE to do something to answer the new Geforce cards and a price drop simply isn't a viable fix, I mean they would have to drop the 295X2 to sub £500 and the 290X to sub £250 to make them a viable option again And I can't see them doing that.
Something they could do as a quick stop gap would be a dual 290 (non X) card for sub £400, that may take some wind out of the 980's sails. Or perhaps a dual 285 card to rival the 970 /shrug.
Something they could do as a quick stop gap would be a dual 290 (non X) card for sub £400, that may take some wind out of the 980's sails. Or perhaps a dual 285 card to rival the 970 /shrug.
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Looking through the 970 owners thread I've not seen a single 970 beat my 290 by a decent amount of FPS and most of them actually lose to my 290 despite them being clocked 1.5Ghz or higher.
From a performance point of view these new Nvidia cards are no threat to AMD, the only thing they do have is low power consumption.
Correct me if I am wrong here but you have a high clocking 290X right? 1250MHz is way above what mine could manage, so the fact you can beat average clocking 970's that cost £80-£100 less while using half the power and putting out half the heat isn't exactly something to write home about.
From a purely performance point of view you would be right, if they didn't cost substantially less, use substantially less power and generate substantially less heat.
Look at it this way, the are two cards, card A is slightly faster out of the box, card B is faster on average when both are over clocked, card A also uses twice the power of card B, puts out twice the heat, and costs £80 more. Based on that which would you buy?
One of the best parts of the 290 series was they cost less than the competition and on average performed better when over-clocking was brought into it, two advantages they have now lost.
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Don't get me wrong, I don't hate AMD at all, I would love to see them answer this threat, because competition is good for everyone, but trying to claim the is no threat is just ridiculous.
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Exactly this, the GTX 980 is just the current premium 9XX , paying a lot more for a lil extra. The 970 is the price VS performance sweet spot for sure.
I hope AMD come out strong, it will push the 980 Ti closer to launch
Do they mean the first AMD GPU, the first ATi GPU, or the first AMD GPU post ATi buyout? The image has the FirePro logo in the background but that would be too obvious surely?
With the red and blue imagery I am guessing this may have something to do with 3D? or be a shot at Intel not Nvidia, or the announcement that Intel have adopted Mantle, or something else entirely.
With the red and blue imagery I am guessing this may have something to do with 3D? or be a shot at Intel not Nvidia, or the announcement that Intel have adopted Mantle, or something else entirely.
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The answer to me quoted question is the ATI Mach8 GPU.
No idea how that might relate. Next level APU?
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