Again moonbogg, this is why I can't stress enough to gamers to get a freaking Gsync/Freesync monitor.
I like my Gsync monitor (a lot actually. The colors are beautiful), but I have to be honest here. I'm not sure Gsync does anything for me. Sometimes I wonder if its even working. I just don't notice a difference and I feel I would have to really pay close attention to notice.
If the FPS is decently high, then Gsync isn't even noticeable as far as I have been able to tell. FPS is far more important for a smooth gaming experience IMO, but this is when FPS is very high on a high HZ monitor. Using a 60hz monitor might very well be quite different and Gsync might really be a great help in that case, such as 4K@60hz.
I think the difference between 60fps and 45fps would be very jarring and noticeable and Gsync might help a lot here, but the difference between 130fps and 90fps isn't a big deal on a 144hz monitor. I have a 144hz monitor so that's why Gsync seems less important to me personally, IMO.
In my experience if the FPS is over 80, then the game feels good no matter what, unless the game has other issues.
Wasn't the price per transistor going up with this shrink? Of course you can clock them a bit higher, but how could there be such a huge price/performance jump as a 980Ti for $300?
Let us consider that in a year, $300 might be a good fit for 980ti performance. There seems to be a chance that the big die cards will be really stupid fast, so 980ti performance should sell for $300.00 when compared to that. I would expect AMD to sell it for $300.00, but Nvidia would probably try to sell us slightly better than 980ti performance for another $650.00.
I prefer Nvidia (for now) but I think the most interesting and exiting products will be coming from AMD over the next few years, particularly because people will actually be able to buy them and a great gaming experience can be had by a lot of people and that makes it much more exciting.
No one wants to spend their damn rent money on an overpriced and soon to be underperforming Nvidia ripoff product. That's the picture that has been taking shape lately regarding their ridiculously over priced, short lifespan products. AMD is the brand to be excited about IMO.
When midrange Pascal and Vega roll around, that's when things get more interesting. It's looking likely I'll be sticking with AMD for now but I'd never discount the possibility of jumping to NV if they offer something very compelling.
Oh dude, I'm sorry. No one told you did they? The upcoming Pascal cards ARE the mid range products. Again, Nvidia is calling them high end products and will sell them for high prices, but look for yourself. They are mid range cards selling at high end prices.
Its not your fault that you fell for this trick as many people have since Kepler and somehow continue to be tricked. Nvidia used to sell high end products first and then release mid range products after. They recently started reversing that release schedule, so we get mid range cards first and high end ones later, but they STILL charge the same high end prices for the mid range cards.
They then release the high end cards and pretend like they were made by angels in the magical workshop of Santa Christ and charge you $1,000.00 EFFING DOLLARS for it. Don't do it. Its a trap.