Did you know that Quadro P6000 is a little bit faster in games than GTX Titan X? I know its hard to accept, but Pro cards isnt really that much slower in gaming than Geforce.
Here is 3840 core Pascal P6000 vs Titan X 3584 core:
So you are comparing the 7% higher core count + 16GB HBM2 P6000 vs the original Titan XP and are surprised that its faster by 6% and 17%?
Clearly memory bandwidth was an issue since its impossible to have 17% better perf in Hitman with only 7% more cores.
Why not compare the non-HBM2 Pascal Pro cards vs their gaming equivalents? P6000 has 12 TFLOPs vs 11 TFLops on Titan XP... Who would have thought raw performance matters!
Finally Vega comes, trying to mimic nvidia´s tile based rasterization and adding the HBC thing, with both things adding maybe 5 or 6 billion more transistors??
If nvidia gets a new technology and AMD copies it again, it will need like 3x the transistors for the same performance, and maybe HBM 3 or 4...
Why are you claiming that tile based rasterization is a Nvidia technology?? Its been used since the 90s and Nvidia didn't use it til Maxwell in 2014.
Regarding the possible driver issues. Is it possible that AMD put the vast majority of its coder into the ROCm development (link to German article about it) so they get it ready for Radeon Instinct? So my theory is that they left the driver development alone when they had a working but unoptimized driver for Vega and focused all their resources into their deep learning framework.
Yep, for all the outcry and raging that people do on forums, ML and enterprises pay far more and cry far less than gamers.
https://rocm.github.io/dl.html