Caporegime
@subbytna
I cannot agree that AMD releases have been so bad over the last 4 years....
Firstly, Fiji based cards weren't that far off the 980Ti (don't forget that the 980 was the target for Fury/FuryX - The 980Ti was what Nvidia pushed out to combat the Fiji cards just before their release and to do that they had to give you a Titan X with a bit of a limp in one leg on a Wednesday afternoon i.e. Almost a full Titan X at half the price).
Secondly those 290/390 and their X variants are still giving people some great FPS numbers on todays games and have beaten everything they were put up against and then some. And they are still going fairly strong.
As for AMD have nothing in the pipeline to combat the 1070 and 1080.....well we are all fully aware of Vega and have been for quite some time...so not sure what you are getting at here.
Nvidia card technology seems to favour higher clock speeds whereas AMDs does not....but the RX480 v 1060 is probably the closest competition that both companies have ever had and look at the clock speed differences between those cards...IMHO it just means that the engineering in the AMD cards is competing without the higher clock speeds. Nvidia users seem to be totally fixated with higher clock speeds and brute force and boy do Nvidia love to feed the beast. The problem here is how far can this tech still be pushed? I actually think that it is very close to its limit as those 1080s are struggling to pull beyond 2.1Ghz no matter what is done to them.
I don't actually think that we will see AMD pull a fast left hook and totally knock Nvidia for six with Vega (Would be a nice surprise though, admittedly) but they will continue to gain marketshare as they have done....slowly slowly catchee monkey is AMDs name of the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMHJhP7Y7oM
Not here it doesnt, and power consumption is the Nvidia users last straw they clutch at when being beat on performance.
They do beat it in the odd game yes, but Xfire is mostly, you may experience problems in xxxx in Xfire, we recommend you disable it, you may encounter flickering textures in xxxx in Xfire, you may encounter stuttering in xxxx in Xfire etc... etc..., so the odd 1 game that works fine in Xfire, beating the 1070s, while umpteen hundreds more, either have to have Xfire disabled, or stutter and flicker like a ******* mofo, is them getting smashed to bloody bits off a single 1070 in my book.
Ive got 2x Furys, and ive had one disabled for over a year now, due to the amount of sheer problems with Xfire, as it just doesn't work, so even they are getting totally smashed to bloody bits of a single 1070, never mind the paultry 480!
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