Is Nvidia toying with AMD when it comes to GPU performance?

[Viper1]

disolitude said:

Viper1 said:

I also thought AMD was skipping Sea Islands as a retail series (OEM only) and are going straight to Volcanic Islands?

I didn't know AMD is skipping HD8000 series. I guess they had to sacrifice very high end GPU sales for 8-9 months or so to catch up. Hopefully Vulcanic islands blows GK110 out of the water because if it doesn't, and MAxwell being on the horizon...

AMD were always pretty tight lipped regarding Sea Islands/8xxx so we may never really know what their original intentions with it was.    But we should be expecting therir Volcanic Islands/9xxx series in October.

They've definitely given nVidia some ground lately.  Though I suppose they've had a lot of focus lately going into their home console deals that it's understandable they've pulled some effort away from the discreet GPU division.