Also... they are delaying GP 106 a lot... is like they can't scale down.
Seems sense. Unless you've got a specific/shortish term upgrade plan in mind I'd reckon on getting an 8GB, decent AIB cooler version. Cost a little bit more but not major amounts and nicer for the longer term.
As for tricks with special versions - that sort of trick works much better at the top of the market!
Not a mid range thing. That bit of the market actually likes efficiency quite a bit and it's very likely that really pushing the clocks on these things will destroy that.
Someone will likely do that but the point will be to try and nip at the coat tails of stock 1070's to eat into a bit of that market.
Since reveal of 480 was in big part about attractive price, price gouging may create sizeable backslash and some customers going for 1070 instead or resigning from purcharse.
Good luck with that. 1070 price gouging is ongoing as well. Its a lose-lose situation for customers.
Slow down, dude. They are struggling to get GP104 out the door. Going by history, GP106 would be on track for August/September. If it doesn't ship by November, only then we can say "delaying a lot".
Problem is that it is not just US price converted to Euro/Pound/Canadian&Australian dollars + VAT tax&few% of contracts, shipping, various costs, etcBut in general, why would it be surprising that electronics would be priced 10-20% above US prices outside of the US? This is pretty standard due to trade costs and manufacturing, contracts, blah blah. Or are GPUs, CPUs, various computer hardware somehow absolved from the standard price premium (not including VAT) that you see with TVs, laptops, blinky boxes, etc?
seems to me that 199-220 Euro would be the expected base cost of a $199 MSRP part, no?
How does that sound impressive? If the Nvidia clocks upwards of 1.9Ghz?
To me it shows that AMD failed, 150W with half performance of 150W 1070 card, clocks low (1.2 vs 1.6).
When nvidia comes out with 1060, AMD will look soo bad... I almost feel sorry for the guys, but I don't actually.. They need to fire they marketing team first them then I think they will be fine.
Yes, that's not going to compete with RX 480. Nvidia have no other choice but to hustle a further cut GP104, something like 1664 shaders retaining a 256-bit bus. That will also need 1070 and 1080 to massively drop in price.
Biggest danger is that manufacturers will try to price gouge 480 particularly outside of US. There are already some leaks about RX 480 being 300+ euro in EU which will be preety bad if true.
Since reveal of 480 was in big part about attractive price, price gouging may create sizeable backslash and some customers going for 1070 instead or resigning from purcharse.
Actually going by history it would be a 4-6 month gap between GP104 and GP106 (GK106 was 6 months after GK104 and GF104 was 4 months after GF100), so that would put GP106 at the September-November time frame.
Given the rather limited supply of GP104, and the fact that the launch seemed to take quite a few people by surprise (including AMD), Nvidia may also have pulled in the launch of GP104 a bit. If they haven't similarly pulled in the launch of GP106 then you should probably add 1-2 months to the timeframe.
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Woah.... so these current leaks may be true? I said the RX480 would beat the 1080 in CF mode. $400 for $700 performance?
I want an RX480 to lower my power consumption, but Vega... I'll wait for you baby....
Woah.... so these current leaks may be true? I said the RX480 would beat the 1080 in CF mode. $400 for $700 performance?
I want an RX480 to lower my power consumption, but Vega... I'll wait for you baby....
I really want to see 2x RX 470 4GB $300 vs GTX 1080.
I think this may spark interest in dual cards again. For a while, people seemed to do dual cards more, and then it fell off. Having such cheap solutions might make people more interested in it again.
Only if new DX-12 titles will support CF and SLI, if new 2016-2017 PC games doesnt support dual GPUs then there is no point.
It seems like Nvidia wants to get away from it. We will have to see if AMD is willing, or if devs want to spend the time on it. I would imagine devs really dont want to though.
Woah.... so these current leaks may be true? I said the RX480 would beat the 1080 in CF mode. $400 for $700 performance?
I want an RX480 to lower my power consumption, but Vega... I'll wait for you baby....
If you didn't think two 230mm2 chips could compete with 1 315mm2 chip then you had some seriously low, low expectations. Pitcairn in crossfire soundly best GK104. These leaks show Polaris 10 essentially matching GP104. From a technical perspective, it's an actuality that AMD will have lost significant ground in perf/mm2. The only thing this is proving to me is how much Nvidia's prices suck right now.