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

[setsunatenshi]

vivster said:

Slimebeast said:

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.

from what i've been hearing by the techrumor circles, the Vega card should be out this fall in time for Battlefield 1. i'm patiently waiting to see the advantages of the new architecture with HBM2 and some decent VR games to make the case for it. I'd say i'm looking for an excuse to upgrade from the r9 290x OC and obviously the rx 480 not it