I think as devs start to figure out Vulkan/DX12 we'll be seeing more of these great engines that can push out some excellent imagery efficiently. Like people have said Frostbite is also very similar in their visual quality/hardware performance. Frostbite DX12 can't come any sooner. (Although...
AMD is in a tight spot. Hopefully Vega performance is out of this world.
Vega better be ready to deal with Pascal today, and the potential Pascal refresh next year.
Something tells me Apple is buying AMD chips for more than just their performance. Why did Apple go for Tonga when there were Nvidia alternatives available? I'm not saying AMD negotiated Apple to use 'junk', but the circumstances behind the Apple design wins are probably not applicable to...
Not the GTX 1060/RX 480 market. These are the kind of people that won't be upgrading their GPU in maybe 2-3 years, else they would have just gotten a higher tier card.
AMD is banking hard right now on RX 470 and RX 460. The RX 480 is a good product but it needed to decisively win vs the 1060 to...
Digger.
Fitting name for a core/module that's gonna end up as Bulldozer's grave :)
edit: or will it? I kinda feel Bulldozer still has a future. We'll see.
Why? Are you telling me they're working with Nvidia but aren't actually doing any work on the Nvidia codepath? What is Nvidia wasting their time for then? Isn't this somewhat telling?
Now that you mention Apple, it struck me that Raja still works for Apple in a way, designing graphics chips for them. Because of the way the GTX 1060 boosts I don't really expect much gain from aftermarket cards other than better coolers. I think aftermarket 480s could definitely match...
Pitcairn also had a release price of $350. Pitcairn was also the 2nd performance tier from the top after Tahiti. Polaris would be the third performance tier from the top from Vega 10 and Vega 11.
If the GTX 1080 was only 29% faster than the RX 480, then the GTX 1070 is completely invalidated...
I mean, that would literally be a miracle wouldn't it? If it had Fury/Nano performance, it would be a $239 card with 80% the performance of a $399 card. That's just expecting a tad bit too much.
If you have a GTX 970/R9 290+ card, you're probably not the target market for the RX 480. I feel...
It seems to be status quo in terms of power efficiency. The GTX 960 was 45% more perf/watt than the R9 380, and GTX 1060 vs RX 480 looks to be around the same difference in perf/watt.
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