Not enough evidence either way. We all know most of what we know about vega will be complete tosh.
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Not enough evidence either way. We all know most of what we know about vega will be complete tosh.
Same here! The sooner the better really.
Sigh!!! Can't we discuss the pro's and con's like adults? I do wish people wouldn't stoop to such low levels and just discuss the topic at hand. I genuinely can't wait for the new cards from both AMD and NVidia to drop and I am not even interested in buying this round (not to say I won't though)
They do say that interest drops with age
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Not looking for facts just individual thoughts.
OK here mine
Successful - Performance around 1080 at around 400 to 500
Failure - performance around 1070 costing 400 to 500
Pretty much how I see it and around the 1080 at £430 would be a great seller.
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It's not biased but it is useless, Once you do the survey you can't do it again so like me there will be millions of users who've done it in the past that have upgraded to newer cards that aren't accounted for, It's okay for seeing what's popular with new members who haven't done it before but that's it.
If you want a stat look up how many times the survey had been completed before May 2016. Apparently some people get asked to retake it but I never have.
Nah, I think I'll hold AMD to their marketing and say: either it beats the Volta 1180, or it's a failure.
Couldn't Nvidia just drop the price of the 1080 and 1070 which would have a big impact on potential Vega sales?
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That'd be great I just hope the HBM isn't an excuse to price above it's weight. If it's a silly price I may grab a PS4 pro for now.
Successful - Performance of the 1080 + 20% not just in Vulkan or DX12 but also DX11 & OpenGL for 500 to 550
Failure - performance around 1080 costing 475 to 525
I can't see a card with HBM2 being very cheap.
That is a factor of course,
Chances are Nvidia would drop the price of the 1080 to compete. The question then is which card will people go for if they perform similar.
It would be good to know how much HBM2 costs per chip. A card with GDDR5/X needs 8 or 16 chips and the PCB must have lots of traces and the extra power circuits. Dose two HBM2 chips cost more than 8/16 GDDR5/X chips + all the extra PCB stuff? If so, How much more?
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Depends on other factors people might have already saved on a Freesync monitor for example.
Some people just like me might prefer Amd etc
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On a PCB like a graphics card the difference in traces (and don't forget the interposer in comparisons) will probably have no real cost difference and GDDR5 even X is based on a fairly matured tech now so the chips will be relatively inexpensive due to the size of the market versus the very small market for HBM which will also likely be recouping R&D costs, etc.
Probably Nvidia, ceteris paribus they tend to win.
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I don't think HBM cost has much people think it does
I have no idea, it would be good if some info was available so we could have more factual arguments
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