| JEMC said: To fatslob and Bofferbrauer about the next gen cards: Maybe I'm being optimistic as I'm hoping to buy one of the next cards, but I honestly believe what I'm saying. fatslob, the conjuction of a new architecture and a new process is what will give the next cards a nice performance bump. After all, every time that both things have happened together, the performance jumps have been of at least 20% if not higher in all the price segments. Why would it be different now? Fine, the 480X/1070 maybe won't beat FuryX/980Ti, but they should beat Fury/980 by a big margin. As for the cost, the jump to 16nm makes the chips a tiny bit more expensive, but so more to completely change the current pricing scale: *snip* |
A new microarchitecture only improves performance by 10% from now on. The reason why the newer GPUs are performing better has to do with the fact that games are now designed to be compute limited so flops will actually matter this time when it comes to game performance ...
2x transistors =/= 2x performance ...
You can't expect perfect scaling when it comes to increasing shader resources ...
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