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970 bandwidth was wasted (as evidenced by the lack of significant performance delta between it and the 980), but everyone cared about the synthetic benchmarks
I'm probably waiting till mid april.
If not - than for first time in my life im gonna go team green.
I'm waiting until the end of march. If Vega is not out by then I'll go Fury X. Or carry on waiting. That is, unless Nvidia bring out a proper DX12 card, support Freesync, drop gamesworms and generally promise not to suck arse any longer.
...guess you're in for a bit of a wait.Originally Posted by jigger
Don't know if it helps, but Amazon have the Gigabyte Fury X for £329 which is pretty good for the money.
Isn't the 1080Ti just a 12GB Titan with one of its cores locked anyway, though?It'd be hillarious if they could bring out a 12GB* Vega based card to 1-up the 1080 Ti...
The writing is on the wall for Nvidia so you never know. The CEO might step down soon......guess you're in for a bit of a wait.
It's a single back end unit - one 32bit memory controller + 8 ROPs - that's disabled. I'd be interested to know if it's the same one on every 1080 Ti - if so it'd suggest that it's purely product segmentation, whereas if it's different ones that would suggest the fusing off of a "bad" unit.
And a £480 price cut, and it only has the stock cooler
Hoping for a return to some decent competition between the amd and nvidia.
The point being, it's not much of a one-up over an 11GB Nvidia card when Nvidia also have a 12GB card that's already out...
That 12GB card isn't directly aimed at gamers though, being part of the Titan line up rather than the GTX line up. The 1080 Ti is nvidia's halo gaming card. If AMD want to 1-up the Titan X they just release a 16GB Vega card (no problem with 2 8-Hi stacks). Although I suspect those will be reserved for the professional market.
We're only just starting to see games where 4GB is essential, so 8GB should be ample for some time yet, particularly as compression and caching techniques improve. But as we know, marketing is a numbers game .... AMD needs at least one number that'll stand out against competing nvidia cards....!
Biscuit (30-03-2017)
If AMD's technology works the way they describe it, with a "High Bandwidth Cache Controller", 8GB of HBM should more than suffice for even the developers. Obviously, don't hold your breath.
http://wccftech.com/amds-vega-double...aphics-memory/
Honestly I'm no longer expecting too much from Vega, from the demos we have seen so far, it doesn't look like it has a chance of dethroning the 1080ti and possibly only just edging out the normal 1080. The price is, as always, will be the defining factor in its value.
I don't know anyone who bought one for non-gaming use, though. Pros all buy those Quadro cards, don't they?
But Titans are cleary the best, because bigger numbers and bigger monies...
Titan buyers seem to be hobbyist/enthusiast overclockers for racking up high benchmarks... before then downclocking a touch and proceeding to game with them, once they've gotten bored of watching Heaven/Valley/Timespy/Realbench/Cinemax for the 30th time today and getting 3 whole frames over their last score!!
Pros, yes. Prosumers, not necessarily
Although NVidia didn't help themselves when they crippled the DP rate on the more recent Titans ... they used to be a compute card with some gaming pretensions, now they're basically just the gaming cards with an expensive brand name slapped on the side
Look closer - See how the numbers are MOAR numbers!!!!!
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