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fatslob-:O said:

JEMC said:

Nvidia has caught AMD with their pants down in terms of performance, no doubts about it. They have the high end market locked with the 1070&1080, and with the 1060 they're also very, very competitive in the mid range one.

It's only in the low end market where AMD can really cause them trouble, which isn't that great as it's also the market with the smaller profit margins. That said, AMD wanted to regain marketshare with Polaris, and even if it comes from the low end, they look like they'll be able to do it.

I don't know about that ... 

AMD doesn't know a thing about capturing marketshare. The "value" brand doesn't do anything for AMD's bottomline in terms of getting marketshare while Nvidia is dominating with their "high-end" brand perception but on the bright side AMD can take pride in their DX12/Vulkan performance leadership aside from Rise of the Tomb Raider ... 

AMD is pretty much done as far as competing in DX11 games so their getting on Noah's Ark (DX12) and dependening how giddy Microsoft feels about project Scorpio including about it being rumored to be more powerful than PS4 Neo they might reward AMD some more optimizations on the API level which is the key to their salvation ...

AMD has gained marketshare in the last quarters despite competing against the 960 and 970.

Price is still a very important factor when it comes to choose a GPU, and this time around Nvidia will only have 2, the 1050 & 1060, because the other two are out of reach for the majority of the consumers.