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fatslob-:O said:

JEMC said:

Oh! New stuff is always exciting.

And that monitor is quite a beast. I also love the 34" 1440p monitors (I've looked at LG and Dell's offerings), but they are too big for me. But unless I'm mistaken A-Sync doesn't work with current Nvidia cards, is that the reason you're waiting to get a new card?.

About the price of the next cards, I wouldn't be so negative. The jump to 28nm with the 7970 and 680 was surprisingly affordable compared to the 6970/580. Also, I wouldn't rule out the possibility of the 480X / 1070 being able to offer the performance of today's high end cards at $400.

I didn't have an Nvidia GPU, I just sold/gave away my old graphics card in anticipation of next gen despite having a negative outlook ... 

28nm still gave us cost savings because we didn't have deal with multiple patterning or the increasing masking costs but for 20nm and beyond that doesn't look to be the case anymore ... 

@Bold I would suggest lowering your expectations so that the disappointment won't hit you as hard since not even Intel has figured out how to lower the cost of their 14nm node!

I don't think that my expectations are too high.

When the first 28nm debuted, the 7950/7970 were <370mm² chip and the 670/680 were <300mm², and now both FuryX and 980Ti are twice as big, being 600mm². With the move to 16nm I expect the first bunch of cards to be around 300mm² again, so while the transistors will be more expensive there will also be less of them.

Besides, there's no way in hell that 480X/1070 won't outperform or at least come close to today's high end cards, and I also find it very hard to believe that neither AMD or Nvidia will launch them for more than $400.