People already forgot the Fiji "scores" they manipulated? Dont put much into it. Because its certain that reviews will show something different. Marketing never matches reality.
So, showing of working silicon for a product released in 6 months is impressive?
nVidia had never shown Maxwell prior the launch and yet Maxwell was impressive at launch.
"Wow"?
Maybe i miss something: AMD is comparing a 16nm FinFet chip to a 12months old chip with nearly 2x times the transistors in a AMD biased game. They archived a 2,5x improvement in efficiency.
nVidia released the GTX980 11 months after the 290X, which has less transistors and archived a 1.9x to 2.0x improvement...
Would have nVidia demonstraded the GTX980 in march 2014 nobody would believed it.
Yet when AMD needs a much longer timeframe, a new process node and nearly twice the transistors, everybody is screaming "Wow".
I guess the hype train is back and now bigger and better than ever.
You make a lot of assumptions on what I think
Can you tell me what exact chip AMD used?
Example:
My GTX980 can also easily beat a GTX950 using half the power. If I can choose the setting.
...hated that they did not release any information about fury.
Well, if this is true it means that GPU with performance levels at 1080p between R9 285 and 280X will use 30W.
WTF?
Wat.
You said that you expect 2x or less efficiency compared to GCN 1.1, so if myt "assumption" is incorrect then you need to get your thoughts straight.
Oh cool, you can back this up, then!
Wat.
A tiny chip. what a surprise...NOT. Was obvious that the will first release small die due to yields and mobile.
Till we actually see something that beats a 980TI on performance or beats used 290/290x (or new one bought about 12 month ago) on price/performance it will be 2017.
I never said GCN 1.1 did I? And I never said less.
In AMDs case you may end up seeing 390 performance in a 125-150W power area.
I never said GCN 1.1 did I? And I never said less.
AMD expects 2x performance/watt over GCN 1.2 when they actually have to talk to people with money.
Only a complete fool would trust a PR presentation with unknown factors and setup. All running specific tweaked setups. In this case 1 single game. In a game where a 110W TDP 370 GCN 1.0 equals a 90W TDP GTX950. Now move to GCN 1.2 and do the node shrink. Even better if a higher class chip is being used for 14nm. PR is and will always be PR.
I never said GCN 1.1 did I? And I never said less.
AMD expects 2x performance/watt over GCN 1.2 when they actually have to talk to people with money.
Only a complete fool would trust a PR presentation with unknown factors and setup. All running specific tweaked setups. In this case 1 single game. In a game where a 110W TDP 370 GCN 1.0 equals a 90W TDP GTX950. Now move to GCN 1.2 and do the node shrink. Even better if a higher class chip is being used for 14nm. PR is and will always be PR.
http://www.hardware.fr/news/14456/amd-annonce-polaris-future-architecture-gpu.html
Il est équipé de mémoire GDDR5. Nous n'avons pas encore de nom pour ce GPU et n'avons pu l'apercevoir que brièvement sans pouvoir en prendre une photo. Tout juste de quoi apercevoir qu'il s'agit effectivement d'une petite puce et d'un packaging compact.
Where did they say "over GCN 2" ?
Did any of you actually read the Anandtech article???
They specifically called out that it was capped at 60 fps. AMD also similarly in the last 60 months released a new driver with frame rate capping capabilities, and boasted about how it increased perf/watt. They picked a 950, not a 960, so that more of the chip would have to be spun up to higher frequencies to hit (wider w/ lower clock = more power efficient, narrower with higher clock = less power efficient). Do the math.
Those numbers they showed are certainly true, but they've also picked the precisely best light to show it in. As anyone should expect from a products company marketing its product...
Well, there goes the "underclocked higher-end chip" theory
They specifically called out that it was capped at 60 fps. AMD also similarly in the last 60 months released a new driver with frame rate capping capabilities, and boasted about how it increased perf/watt.
....Or they just picked the current NVidia offering that is currently in the price point of this Polaris chip.