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Chazore said:
Damn I wish Nvidia would pick up some of their slack, then again they are too comfortable as things are with the marketshare and I'm not fond of GFE being forced to get those driver updates either.

Also bummed about Mankind Divided being delayed for 5 more months, something tells me it's going to be bad in terms of either the game or the port, I can just feel it if they need 5 whole extra months to "polish" the game.

I really hope Blizzard give me that Overwatch Beta invite, I need that game in my veins.

I wouldn't worry about Nvidia. The 2x Perf/Watt figure comes just from the new process node alone, and to that figure you'll have to add the improvements that the new architecture will bring. Of course, with Pascal Nvidia will pay attention to the DP performance that they left aside in Maxwell (they traded DP for those cards to make use of the extra space to improve the gaming performance), so part of those improvements won't be noticeable in gaming, so that 2x perf/W may be true after all.

And then, there's die space. The GTX 680 (Nvidia's first 28nm card) was a 294mm² chip, much smaller than your 398mm2 GTX 980 and ridiculously tiny compared to the 601mm2 of the Titan X/980Ti (For comparison, AMD's first 28nm was 365mm2 and Fiji is 596mm2). And yet, even thought the 1080 will also be a "small" chip, it will outperform at least the 980 by some margin.

After all, remember that the first 28nm card launched in 2011 and we won't have the first one at 16nm until 2016, five years later. We don't know how long it will take for the next node jump, so neither Nvidia nor AMD want (and honestly can't) push it to the max just from the get go.

 

About the delay of the next Deus Ex... well, nowadays a game that's not delayed is an oddity . I wouldn't worry, yet.



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