hinch said:
Impressive, though price is quite staggering. This probably also means that Nvidia will bump up prices across the board for consumer cards... Thanks AMD Oh well, no competition means my next card will most likely be a GTX2080.
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I jumped onto Polaris as I got tired of waiting for Vega.... And just couldn't stand dealing with Cedar.
Hoping Navi is enough of a jump over Polaris to warrant a purchase... As Vega wasn't it.
Otherwise I might actually do the unthinkable. Make a wander over to the green side. (Something I haven't done in years.)
Still, we should get Navi in about 6-9 months, not to much longer to wait with only a Polaris based card.
There is also a few things being floated around that AMD may take a Threadripper approach with Navi, where AMD uses it "fabric" to stitch together a heap of smaller, cheaper to manufacture chips... Which could mean some big things as far as price/performance is concerned and should result in less re-badging of old crap.
caffeinade said:
It isn't a gaming card. It is actually pretty cheap, when you consider that it has decent FP64 compute. 12GB of HBM with 652.8 GB/s of bandwidth is a huge plus point. Throw in those Tensor cores, and you have one justifiable purchase.
The card is not worth its price tag if the owner just wants to play games.
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"Worth" is all relative. There is likely gamers out there who can justify the purchase price of these.