Yeah Tonga is kind of in an odd place. It's a larger die than pitcairn (or whatever name you want to put on it), so cutting it down will make less money than using the smaller die...and I don't think its powerful enough to replace hawaii.
AMD's Next Gen GPU; A Recipe for Success. Comment Thread
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Looking at the speculation, AMDs 329$ competitor to the GTX 970 is just going to be a rebranded 290 with 8GB of memory instead of 4GB. That in my opinion is pretty weak, that the volume leader card is going to be slower(probably at all resolutions) but have more memory.
I do think they'll find 'some' success in marketing such a card since a lot of people on reddit seem pretty convinced 4GB(or rather 3.5GB) is not enough. Also there seems to be an impression that AMD cards are going to leapfrog Nvidia in performance as soon as DX12 games start coming out, what that is based on I don't know.
I do think they'll find 'some' success in marketing such a card since a lot of people on reddit seem pretty convinced 4GB(or rather 3.5GB) is not enough. Also there seems to be an impression that AMD cards are going to leapfrog Nvidia in performance as soon as DX12 games start coming out, what that is based on I don't know.
The new DX12 test mode in 3d mark shows improved performance level on AMD cards more than on the nvidia GPUs.
I'm using a GTX 970 FTW 4GB to play Witcher 3 @ 1080p with everything maxed (including Hairworks). I've barely touched 1500MB used VRAM, and that number includes the ~200MB VRAM Windows uses by default. This is the most demanding title I own - unless you are gaming @ 4K, I can't see 8GB being justified.
And 3DMark has been indicative of actual performance......when?
I think things certainly do have the potential to change as you move to higher res over 1080p. I'm not too interested in 4K but I am intrigued by the 1440p ultrawide res for gaming. I am patiently waiting for my 4GB 980 Classified to arrive (today!) but currently I am gaming on a 3GB 780 at 1440p. In reality the 780 chugging along on its 3GB still does a decent job at 1440p and I like eye candy on. That is why I am interested to see how the 4GB of HBM really does. Could the architecture be different enough that the 4GB in that configuration really is all that is required for 4K gaming? AMD certainly seemed to be selling that line in the event.
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To be honnest I liked to see AMD doing good just to avoid to have only one gpu maker on the market. If they can (AMD) competition with NVIDIA, it's a good thing for us who pay the bill. If they can have a card equivalent or just a liitle less then the gtx 980ti at fair price I will get one for sure. I know there is a lot of IF , hope make me happy
To be honnest I liked to see AMD doing good just to avoid to have only one gpu maker on the market. If they can (AMD) competition with NVIDIA, it's a good thing for us who pay the bill. If they can have a card equivalent or just a liitle less then the gtx 980ti at fair price I will get one for sure. I know there is a lot of IF , hope make me happy
I think everyone will be happy with the performance of their cards. Our R9 390X review goes live tomorrow morning at 8AM. Contrary to some beliefs, there ARE some changes.
Oooo! Exciting :thumb:
20 minutes to go! We're going by Auckland time, right? :thumb:
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