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I wasn't aware that NVidia had made anything clear, all we ever get from both sides is they will be ready in (insert very vague timeframe here). I mean AMD said before the back to school period, which means sometime before September, there 7 more months till September and Polaris could arrive in any one of them.
All I know of NVidia is they said 2016. exactly when who knows. If at the end of GTC they haven't said here is a new Pascal card and it will be available in x weeks, then we can safely say they didn't release a new card at GTC.
.........could literally be seen/proven wasn't what the sites were saying it was... people got called names for saying those rumour were untrue. But christian today... the mecca of all things tech news.... says they aren't coming in April and it's all "yeah, makes se.............
I wasn't aware that NVidia had made anything clear, all we ever get from both sides is they will be ready in (insert very vague timeframe here). I mean AMD said before the back to school period, which means sometime before September, there 7 more months till September and Polaris could arrive in any one of them.
All I know of NVidia is they said 2016. exactly when who knows. If at the end of GTC they haven't said here is a new Pascal card and it will be available in x weeks, then we can safely say they didn't release a new card at GTC.
Well phrased
They said GTC and in a blog that the first Pascal product will be the automotive one shipping in Q2 to early access customers and Q4 for everyone else which is where the April date being thrown around came from.
You really think Nvidia will release a GPU Q4 when AMD has said there release before kids go back to school after summer or it could be any time before this? So Q4 release is not going to happen. Nvidia won't let it! They'll release when they feel time is right? Not one person here knows when this will be?
They said GTC and in a blog that the first Pascal product will be the automotive one shipping in Q2 to early access customers and Q4 for everyone else which is where the April date being thrown around came from.
These rumors about the GPUs with the Pascal architecture are currently based on shipping manifests that have spotted on the Zauba database in India which deals with products that are imported or exported from the country.
AMD had 28nm out 3 months prior to NVidia, so it isn't uncommon really and the more I read, early Polaris and Pascal will be small chips and the bigger one's will follow.
Looking for the GTX980 equivalent which in theory should be faster then Titan X. Not bothered by big pascal.
Looking for the GTX980 equivalent which in theory should be faster then Titan X. Not bothered by big pascal.
It will probably be marginally faster but the TX will remain the better 2160p card due to the 12gb memory.
I think people need to give a lot of thought to upgrading to mid range Polaris or Pascal as they could be spending a lot of money to gain very little over their existing Fiji and GM200 cards.
Big Pascal and Polaris is where the real upgrade will be.
It will probably be marginally faster but the TX will remain the better 2160p card due to the 12gb memory.
I think people need to give a lot of thought to upgrading to mid range Polaris or Pascal as they could be spending a lot of money to gain very little over their existing Fiji and GM200 cards.
Big Pascal and Polaris is where the real upgrade will be.
The new cards will have 8GB, there is no game that need more than 4GB at 4k except two games which purposefully use uncompressed textures offering absolutely no IQ improvement at all over the lower setting which in the case of both games runs great on 4GB cards.
You are literally saying 12GB is required because Nvidia persuaded(I wonder how) two devs to provide uncompressed textures to fool people into thinking they needed more memory.
Both of your go to examples, Shadow of Mordor and Xcom 2 can be seen to offers zero visual benefit between the uncompressed and compressed textures. No other game I can think of in the past 20 years uses uncompressed textures because it's utterly pointless to do so.
If a game gave you the option of running lets say two lighting methods giving identical visual output but one reduced fps by 50fps and the other by 10fps, would you choose the purposefully less efficient method and have worse performance for absolutely no reason at all?
People shouldn't upgrade from TitanX/Fury to cards very close in performance, but the massive majority of gamers don't own Titan X's or Furys, or 980ti's, or even 980/290x. For the millions of other gamers who want to buy new cards, the midsized Polaris/Pascal will be significantly better buys than FuryX/TitanX cards.
Automotive is very much 1st access/2nd Access customers as that’s how the market works.“The automotive stuff isn't 1st access/2nd access customers, it's samples before mass production which happens everywhere and is how people prepare for future products. Lots of people have samples of Polaris now, that doesn't mean it's released in any way shape or form.”
Well you are wrong again. Some of the rumours did come about from the April Q2 news. It’s not hard to see how it happened. NVidia talk about Pascal in Q2, some people assume that mean start of Q2 so talk about Pascal arriving in April. Other see that talk about Pascal April and think that’s a reference to desktop Pascal and so the rumour news site start posting about Pascal in April. Not that all rumours followed that but some would have.“Again, it's not, just because you hear two things that mention April doesn't mean they are connected.
http://fudzilla.com/news/graphics/39...ured-for-april
The rumours about April are about a consumer release of GP100 based off entirely different information. This is what ALL the April rumours are about.”
Looking for the GTX980 equivalent which in theory should be faster then Titan X. Not bothered by big pascal.
Nvidia Pascal To Be Unveiled At GTC In April, Launch In June