Bond007
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You can wait for that... I'm gonna wait for the 1060ti
Probably a card I would consider as well...assuming it sees the light of day. I was surprised a 960Ti never showed up.
You can wait for that... I'm gonna wait for the 1060ti
I'm somewhat surprised that Nvidia chose to go with GDDR5X and not HBM and that they chose to leave the SLI connectors in place. AMD introduced bridgeless Crossfire with the R9 series in 2013 and Nvidia is choosing to use a different SLI bridge now which is completely new. I'd like to see how AMD will answer with Polaris but if both those new architectures/releases can offer significant gains then it will mean that prices should come down for previous generations especially used and should offer more competition with current generation products between AMD and Nvidia.
I'm somewhat surprised that Nvidia chose to go with GDDR5X and not HBM and that they chose to leave the SLI connectors in place. AMD introduced bridgeless Crossfire with the R9 series in 2013 and Nvidia is choosing to use a different SLI bridge now which is completely new. I'd like to see how AMD will answer with Polaris but if both those new architectures/releases can offer significant gains then it will mean that prices should come down for previous generations especially used and should offer more competition with current generation products between AMD and Nvidia.
NVIDIA is brilliant for avoiding the HBM cluster*uck. It increases BOM costs, has limited capacity, adds unneeded complications to the manufacturing process through the interposer, is still having availability issues, etc. etc. GDDR5X on the other hand has a perfect mix of yields, commonality, capacity and bandwidth.
As for the SLI connector, the bandwidth of Pascal's SLI interface would cause issues when running over a PCI-E slot. Maybe with PCI-E 4.0.
Perhaps for their current Pascal release with the 1070/1080 but if Nvidia releases their flagship parts (Titan Y?, 1080Ti) those parts would likely use HBM2 but we wouldn't likely see those parts till about a year later or half a refresh cycle later. GDDR5 and GDDR5X are and were intended to be transitional technologies just like GDDR3 was. Interestingly enough AMD first made the jump to GDDR5 in 2008 with the RV770 and R700 series while Nvidia was still on GDDR3 (and would be until 2010 with GF100). 8 years later and AMD looks like they will be going HBM2 either this year or in the next year or two while Nvidia will still be on GDDR5X. Looks like the same situation as 8 years ago with GT200 and RV770/R700.