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March onwards for Volta maybe the full H1 for AIB I think is more reasonable
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NVIDIA Volta with GDDR6 in early 2018?
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Might depend on Vega's reception as well as other factors.
I've gone a bought a 1080, having waited since March for Vega... I buy something the day before launch!
But... high power consumption is putting me off, plus I'm not going to bet against Nvidia by locking myself in to the AMD ecosystem with a Freesync display.
Might depend on Vega's reception as well as other factors.
I've gone a bought a 1080, having waited since March for Vega... I buy something the day before launch!
But... high power consumption is putting me off, plus I'm not going to bet against Nvidia by locking myself in to the AMD ecosystem with a Freesync display.
Haha, yea, that cracked me up, I won't lie
There is a comment somewhere that they are planning on seeing out the year on Pascal for GeForce cards but didn't rule out a Volta Titan sooner.
Volta Titan is going to be juicy!
Yes, especially after activating the workstation features. $1499 it'll be.
Good point. You are probably right.
TNA we jest a lot right but we did have this discussion like 3 months ago now? The writing was on the wall since last year and being vets of this game we should have voted with our wallets a lot sooner. It forces them to react. Anyway dont want to cover old ground.Yeah, probably will.
I may even consider going for a G-Sync monitor again as I have lost confidence that AMD will be providing us with good price for performance cards going forward. All they seem to be doing is coming in late, running less efficient and asking for the same price. Not happening. In the past they always were improving price for performance, so I was happy to support and buy, they have not done that in years unfortunately
It is a shame as I want them to improve their market share, but cannot support them if they are going to price their cards like this when they come in 15 months late and run less efficient.
My only problem with G-sync is that it is proprietary not that AMD are going to change anything soon but it doesn't sit right with me.
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As there are only two options for GPU's, Freesync kinda becomes AMD proprietary by default.
I know that's not the case, but how many people are going to buy a Freesync monitor and not buy an AMD card?
Either way you are locked in to a specific eco-system.
In-fact, Nvidia suddenly supporting 'Variable sync' at this juncture might wound AMD even more, as people with Freesync monitors would be able to buy Nvidia cards.
I know that's not the case, but how many people are going to buy a Freesync monitor and not buy an AMD card?
Either way you are locked in to a specific eco-system.
In-fact, Nvidia suddenly supporting 'Variable sync' at this juncture might wound AMD even more, as people with Freesync monitors would be able to buy Nvidia cards.
I feel the same. Wish they just supported adaptive sync and then marketed g-sync as something premium. But I fancy buying something and sticking with it for a while, been switching hardware a lot lately.
The monitor I really want (4K OLED 120hz with proper HDR) won't be available at a decent price for a long time, so might just have go for and stick with a G-Sync monitor until then.
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Nvidia cards work with Freesync? When did this happen?
It doesn't, he was saying it might happen. It seems rather unlikely though, as no one would pay the G-sync premium if freesync worked.
Freesync support is generally considered to be one of nvidia's nuclear options, they don't need to use it yet.
A hypothetical scenario would be if AMD went massively popular leading to widespread adoption of freesync monitors, that hasn't happened yet and nvidia wants to keep benefiting from gsync premiums.
A hypothetical scenario would be if AMD went massively popular leading to widespread adoption of freesync monitors, that hasn't happened yet and nvidia wants to keep benefiting from gsync premiums.
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Got yea. Cheers was looking into freesync monitors haha
AMD's drivers are proprietary, their firmware is proprietary, their hardware is proprietary, DX12 is proprietary. I don't really buy this logic.
This really. If nvidia loose sales, or monitor manufacturers see that Hsync monitors aren''t selling sufficiently so stop production nvidia will just enable freesync. As it stands there is no incentive.
Yeah but format wars are a different kettle of fish. VHS vs Betamax, HDDVD vs BluRay.
In format wars we all lose.
FreeSync vs GSync is pretty much akin to a format war, really.
As soon as NVIDIA lose the performance crown significantly in gaming and aren't able to undercut the competition price wise - this could happen with NAVI if it's out early enough and Volta's successor is late enough - then I expect them to enable the VESA standard adaptive synch in drivers immediately. Albeit only for current generation cards.
They could do it now if they wanted to.
For those that are blind enough to believe that won't happen. Far more people thought it was impossible for AMD to totally dominate Intel's offerings in HEDT and Server even 6 months ago. It's cyclical.