Sony forcing Nvidia hand?

[Slimebeast]

vivster said:

Slimebeast said:

Agreed, it doesn't manage to run them at 60fps consistently.

Oh yeah, those GTX 980Ti factory overclocked beasts that can beat the stock 980Ti by nearly 30% and almost a GTX 1080! If really you can find one for 400 Euros, wow, that's crazy bang for your buck.

It's so sad that the 10-series overclocks so bad while the 900-series was a monster. With the process shrink and all, I wonder why?!

You really wonder why? Pascal is nothing more than a massively overclocked Maxwell. 95% of the performance boost over Maxwell comes from the clock and not the architecture. It's harder to overclock something that's already so high clocked. For example the 1080 has 10% less shaders than the 980ti but to make up for it has a whooping 60% higher clock.

How can it be just Maxwell on a smaller process if Nvidia boasted at the reveal that the research budget for the 1080 was billions of dollars and their most expensive GPU to develop ever?