AMD founder's edition tax

[railven]

Here's your unicorn

Was available earlier sold out again.

Exactly. Haha.

 

[mohit9206]

AMD always said "starting at $199".So they never lied. If anyone's that lied its Nvidia because i don't see any 1070s for $379 and 1080s for $599.

 

[kondziowy]

DX12 is another matter though. Maxwell's lack of dynamic load balancing and preemption will hurt it there. Pascal should be able to hold its own to some extent but we cannot be sure until more DX12 games show up, with proper Pascal async support, etc.

See, Nvidia will always
1) find a way to lower their cards performance after 2 years
or
2) be behind AMD in features since only GCN features will be used more and more to squeeze performance out of consoles. Nvidia catches up in new architecture -> previous gen gets performance penality.

Pick your poison.

Pascal does not have async compute+graphic = when it's introduced in Volta, previous gen Pascal will get slight perf drop again.

 

[Ma_Deuce]

We were promised a $200 price point for the rx480. This miraculously turned into a 4gb and 8gb card. Which the 8gb card was $20 more.... Then $40 more. Then we throw in online retailer markup/aib cards and now we see cars above $260-270. From $200 to ~$270 it sounds like a founder's edition to me

Please post the links promising and 8gb 480 for $200. I'm having a hard time finding any.

BTW, please remember to use the /s. People actually thought you believed what you were typing.

 

[eddman]

NVidia does not lower their cards' performance on purpose. They either do not optimize their old architectures for newer games in drivers, or it's the game developers who don't optimize for older gens, or both.

I do agree with GCN being usually advantageous, since developers optimize for that first and foremost, because of consoles. Proper developers would optimize for NVidia on their PC ports but not all would bother with it, which is a shame.

Pascal does not have async compute+graphic

It does. Anandtech explained it in detail. Even Maxwell does but its lack of load balancing makes it pretty useless.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/10325/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1080-and-1070-founders-edition-review/9

 

[96Firebird]

nVidia literally sells a founder's edition on their website for more than MSRP

The MSRP for the FE cards are what they are selling for on Nvidia's website, am I missing something?

 

[Markfw]

I have had 6 reports so far that this is a troll thread. I agree, and am locking it per forum consensus.