So AMD 480 is a dud, not nearly the amazing deal after all

[vivster]

Slimebeast said:

vivster said:

You might have to go with Big Pascal then. Rumors say that Vega 10 will be around 60% above the Fury X which will be above the 1080(40% above Fury X) but will be safely below Big Pascal. Though I fear Nvidia will adapt to that by not releasing the full Big Pascal and instead a smaller version that's only slightly above Vega10.

But either way the same rules as always apply. If you're on a budget, go with AMD. If not, go with the strongest card you can find.

Oh, there's Vega rumours already?!

If it's 60% above Fury X I would accept that, although before the 14nm tech launched I was dreaming of a new AMD GPU being 2.0x Fury X.

60% above the Fury X is exactly twice the performance of a RX 480. Do you really think they can do that in 2016, considering the RX 480 already draws a hefty 160W? That would need serious architectual improvements.

I don't really expect Vega this year. It should be around the same time as the new Titan early next year.