You know that. It would be an absolutle flyer with seeing how the current Maxwell cards are doing on such low power requirements.
Well I knew that by the posts you make but just wanted to make sure.
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AMD to launch 300W GPU with High-Bandwidth-Memory
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You know that. It would be an absolutle flyer with seeing how the current Maxwell cards are doing on such low power requirements.
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I don't think you've quite grasped how it works. Most people with a setup that includes a high end card should have space for a 120 Rad.
If the AIO can keep the 295x, a 500w card, cool and quiet enough, then a 300w card should be a breeze.
That is one of the carefulyl ignored advantages of having a loweer tDP.
TDP may or may not matter to you individually depending on usage, cooling, noise tolerance, electricity costs, etc. However, if AMD requires 300w to have card that is say 10% better than a 980 then within weeks Nvidia can announce 980Ti that is at least 10% faster and likely still uses less power.
Of course if the 300W AMD is twice the speed of the 980 then nvidia will have difficulties. But that is unlikely, because if AMD could get that much performance they would drop the power requires to something sensible. The reason it is 300w is because it is a big hot die on 28nm that is just less efficient than maxwell.
Very true that and it could well be much less. Time will tell but as always, we do like a good debate and it is quite enlightening to see the lengths people will go to
could be worse case but I don't think it would be unexpected.
The core will be made on 28nm, will have to be faster than the 980 not so be a laughing stock, the 290x is already not too far form that figure so it is dependent on AMD making a very large increase in efficiency. they have undoubtedly made some improvements but it remains to be seen how much.
To me it just seems likely that the 390 will push on the 300w mark to get 10% performance above the 980.
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Haha
I can't wait for AMD to release this thing, because we're moving closer to a more fully enabled Maxwell card, and then pick between the two monster cards.
I want Maxwell with more cores, and at least 8GB's of vram. If not I'll prob go 390X. AMD do need to fix IDLE temps / power use on multi screens though, atm it's dire. Hopefully stacked mem can address this??
Don't care about TDP on either card. Because when you overclock TDP goes out the window anyway.
My 980 is @ 1500mhz and sucks a fair bit of juice.
any chance you could answer that, boomstick? or anybody?
crysis3 noted, thanks Kaap
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And we're back to the ****ing power consumption topic, this has been done over and over and over and the people who realize this is a stupid topic also realize its only relevant if your PSU is tiny and cant really handle 500-600W (Which my OCed system uses for reference). But i doubt it, you people who have 5960xs and 980s make this argument as if its a problem you have lol.
Electrical bills? Oh please, if you're that poor you shouldnt sit on ocuk and waste time.
Electrical bills? Oh please, if you're that poor you shouldnt sit on ocuk and waste time.
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Yeah at default settings the 980 is indeed more power efficient than it's predecessors, and more so than the 290X, once you add an overclock or really stress the GPU @ stock that low TDP goes out the window
I've got a GTX 980 which sits @ 1500 core all day long for gaming, it pulls about as much from the wall as my old Titan Black did at about 1200 core.
I just get whichever card is fastest, atm that is the 980. I don't really consider the TDP in broad terms because I'm not gonna be running at stock if you see what I mean.
If the 300w AMD card is faster than the 980, than I'll grab that and visa versa if it's GM200. Once a single card can handily cope with 1440P, than I'll pick whichever uses least power at that performance level. We're just not there yet. Probably 2016 for a midrange card (Power efficient) to do really well @ 1440P imho. Then I can settle for a lower down tier card that doesn't need as much juice. (Unless I move to 4K
)+1, I won't mention it again. Just answering his question.
I am sure there is plenty of poor people who sit on the OcUK forums.
If you have the money for a graphics card of the calibre that is R9 290s or Maxwell then you shouldnt waste time on OCUK whining about how they will affect electrical bills.
Edit: see the inconsistency? Said person can pay for a 290x or a 980... But cant pay the tiny difference in electrical bills? PLEASE.