GTX 1080 unveiled; 9 teraflops

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Slimebeast said:

Peh said:

Technically, yes. But I thought he meant something higher than 1080p like 2560x1440. 

Yeah, I meant 1080p. I know 2560x1440 or any off resolution will look blurry, but since 1080p is exactly 1/4th of 2k, that should look very sharp, yes?

1080p is 2k.

There's a difference between the computer/TV resolutions, usually described by its vertical resolution, and the movie standards that use the horizontal one. For example, in movies 2K stands for a (1998)2048x1080 resolution, that corresponds to the 1920x1080 resolution of TVs and monitors.

And 4K cinema is 4096x2160, while for TVs and monitors it's 3840x2160, which should be called 2160p, but the marketing guys decided that it was too complicated and went for 4K.

 

torok said:

JEMC said:

On 2017 Nvidia will have the full Pascal chip, and things won't change much.

And the last time AMD did something like this, with the HD 4 and 5000 series, it worked well for them and increased their market share, which is exactly why AMD is doing it now.

After all, most sales come from the sub $300 segment.

I'm hoping that, with Vega, they will already bring a GPU to compete with the 1080ti and the next Titan, so they would only give a free pass to Nvidia this year.

Of course, most sales come from the sub $300 GPUs, but they have to be careful. When they were rocking with the 500 series, Nvidia didn't had a 330-360 bucks GPU like the 970/1070 that actually delivers serious performance. They are beasts, so AMD has to, at least, match this guys. The 970 was a success and AMD fought it well with the 290x/390x.

Well, that kind of proves your point actually. The 970 was a much more important GPU than the 980/980ti and Titan X. Most people don't need more. It's really where the money is. Anyway, I think that you need a flagship to avoid the image of being an "inferior" company. The FX CPUs are reasonably competitve to the i5, but people see AMD as crap because they don't have anything to fight the i7s.

I agree with you that having an "halo" product improves the perception of a company, but given the financial situation of AMD, focusing on what sells the best is the right choice.