GTX 1080 unveiled; 9 teraflops

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shikamaru317 said:

Captain_Yuri said:

Craycray as fuck. I really hope AMD has something but them targeting "mid range" isn't exactly a good thing imo unless mid range is performance like that. We will see but at this rate, Nvidia is gonna continue to dominate which isn't really what I want since competition is good.

Great job Nvidia though! Blew my expectations away. RIP Tom though (if you watched the press conf, u would get it)

According to Steam Hardware surveys, less than 10% of PC gamers currrently use high end cards like the 970, 980, Titan, and R9 Fury series. The perecentages for low and mid range cards are far higher. I think AMD is right to prioritize low-mid range first, then release their new high end cards next year. AMD's plan is to bring VR capable performance and 1440p capable performance to the mid-range segment. They also plan to release low-mid range gaming laptop GPU's that are on par with consoles or better.

If AMD lives up to their claims, later this year we could very well have a $250 Radeon card that is cool, quiet, and capable of maxing most games at 1080p 60 fps and some at 1440p 60fps, and to a mid-range PC gamer like myself, that's equally as impressive as what these new Geforce cards are capable of at $400+. 

But according to those Steam Hardware surveys, the GTX 970 is the most used card with 5% of the total Steam users: http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/, which proves that if well priced, people are willing to spend a little more.

And that's precisely where the 1070 comes in.

That's not to say that I disagree with you, tho. If AMD manages to create a situation similat to the one we had with the HD4000 vs GTX 200 series, we all can win. The only question is if AMD will be capable of that.