| Slimebeast said: Yes, I am indeed waiting to see what Zen brings to the table for my future comp. I'm eagerly waiting for Zen and Vega. Nvidia and Intel aren't an option because I am 100% AMD and I trust them. I don't have to get the "performance crown" CPU for gaming. I am certain a $250 Zen will be competitive enuff in modern games and future games versus the popular $300 Intel CPUs next year, and within rufly ~10% in modern games which are so GPU-bound anyway in practical circumstances, especially in 4K which I'm targeting for next year (assuming 4K HDR moniters are released with at least 75Hz). |
I was 100% AMD/ATI for years.
But anyone who buys an AMD CPU at the moment is silly. It's a waste of money when the competition has vastly superior alternatives.
I'm still AMD with GPU's. Unless Vega doesn't come to the party, then it might be time to go team Green for the first time since the Geforce 7.
| Slimebeast said: But hey, the 3DS was release like 5 years ago. Hardly does it damage Eurogamer's credibility if they were wrong on that perdiction back then. Also, the big factor against the AMD theory is that to my knowledge AMD doesn't have any GPU that can fit into a portable sized hybrid console, right? |
They do have their Cat Core based APU's which can scale down to those powerlevels. But at that point you are still better off with nVidia's Tegra.
| se7en7thre3 said: I am definitely no expert on this subject so i appreciate your input; also pemalite and other tech heads here that can chime in and declare whether its possible, or pure bs click bait: "It’s not clear yet whether AMD will also introduce the new revision to the desktop market. However, in the mobile market where power efficiency rules supreme this could prove to be a pivotal change for the company’s competitiveness in notebooks. Some industry sources are speculating that AMD could introduce the new Polaris 10 and Polaris 11 revisions as part of the company’s graphics refresh next year. To be part of the new product stack alongside the brand new powerful enthusiast-class Vega 10 and Vega 11 GPUs in what we assume we’ll be called the RX 500 series. There’s evidence to believe that this is plausible. The Radeon Technologies Group had revealed earlier this year that the new naming scheme introduced with the RX 400 series had been designed with room for updated revisions in mind, e.g. RX 485, RX 475 and RX 465 graphics cards. However, as the desktop isn’t a power critical platform the company is more likely to choose to leverage the higher power efficiency to boost performance by raising clock speeds and maintaining similar TDP levels of current RX 400 series graphics cards. AMD’s new flagship graphics chip code named “Vega 10” is scheduled to debut at the end of the year. Another high-end “Vega 11” GPU is scheduled to launch next year to slot it in between Vega 10 and Polaris 10." |
Vega 10 and 11 has been known about for over a year now. It's nothing new.
If Vega launches this year, then it will be a 400 series part. If it releases near the middle of next year it will be a 500 series part.
A Polaris revision is entirely possible. But at this point AMD is probably going to be more interested in fleshing out the entire 400 series rather than reworking current chips, they might take new higher clocking polaris chips and add new cards to their lineup though.
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