Maverick177
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I'd call that a big win for everyone. A card that splits the difference between 1080 and 1080Ti for a price that splits the difference as well? And you can get a cheap
er Freesync monitor to save another couple hundred?
You can buy a good gaming CPU for $300 saved on a Ti/GSync, that's worth doing.
Might make their "Poor Volta" untrue, but good news for consumers. I care more about what I can buy for my money than the marketing speak.
It is a fail for AMD in regards to technology competency and financial stand point. Also, the 1080Ti is already at $700, what stops nvidia from lowering it down to $650 range? That would utterly decimate Vega.
Even more so when you consider AMD is more than a year late, with roughly 20% faster than GP104 but also 10% more expensive.. I want nvidia to crash down and burn but it seems to me the RTG is really getting a beating right now. Raja doesn't mention Vega performance AT ALL if you skip all the non sense filler crap. That is worrying considering Threadripper is winning heavily..
It looks like Vega will be 10% slower than 1080 TI in titles skewed heavily in AMD's favor like Sniper Elite, which means it'll be 20% slower in a much larger swath of titles. If this ends up the case, it'll average 15+% slower than 1080 TI. I'm still curious as to the die size and power consumption metrics since neither was discussed. All in all though, as a halo gaming card it's too late and going to be VERY short lived with Volta likely hitting in Q4/Q1 next ear.
15% slower seems reasonable, and yeah it's gonna be sad for AMD if Volta is indeed scheduled for this year. Nvidia tends to have 1.5 year period between architectures. Pascal was launched on May last year so it's reasonable to assume it's gonna November for Volta. I got my Fury X on September 2015 because none could be found. Let's hope it's not the case for Vega.
They approached at different angles so hard to compare, but when they both are at the same place the FPS is actually very similar.
https://youtu.be/590h3XIUfHg
And that is against a 1962MHz 1080 Ti! Boost is under 1600 MHz. So its an OC'd 1080 Ti vs Vega and Vega is performing very well.
I'll try to be as unbiased as possible and call this a draw, based solely on this comparison alone since there are way too many things to consider.
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