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fatslob-:O said:

Nvidia's professional parts don't run THAT much slower as of recent. A GTX Titan X runs at a base clock of 1000MHz. The Quadro M6000 runs at 988MHz and the Tesla M60 Accelerator runs at 948MHz. They only run 12MHz and 52MHz slower respectively base clock wise all on a 250 watt TDP. The difference is practically negligible! The GP100 is already eating up it's overclocking headroom by running at a 300 watt TDP for comparison ... 

Boost clocks are not what we should be focusing on, it should be base clocks since they guarantee a baseline ... 

While Pascal did change the SM arrangement, you need twice as many work items as you did before. Nvidia is practically trading in IPC/ILP for more thread level parallelism ... 

I see no reason to believe that we're going to get a higher IPC with Pascal when it has a lower amount of shared memory per thread ... 

Those Tesla/Quadro cards run that fast because Maxwell is rubish when it comes to computing, and they need every MHz to compensate that.

This is how I see the situation right now (Note that this is just my opinion, and I don't know as much as I would like):

Both professional and gamers want and ask for two basic things, MORE and FASTER, and Nvidia and AMD not only know it, but share that same vision and work in the same direction. What happened with the last gen is that they choose a different focus.

With Kepler and Maxwell Nvidia payed more attention the FASTER side of things, while AMD focused on the MORE aspect (probably because they needed the GPGPU capabilities of their GPU to compensate the poor performance of the CPUs in their APUs). And the truth is that it worked well for both camps, offering noticeable improvements over previous cards while remaining competitive with their main competitor.

Now, with Pascal and Polaris, I expect them to pay attention to the other side of things. Because of that, I believe that Nvidia will focus on MORE (and the Pascal diagram seems to point in that direction), and AMD will pay more attention to the FASTER aspect. And just like the last time, I expect to see noticeable improvement.

In any case, we'll find out in a couple of months.