| vivster said: AMD cards have been cheaper for years at a similar performance level. To gain any share AMD GPUs need to be both better and cheaper. AMD also needs to beat Nvidia's flagship no matter the price. If the hailed Vega 10 does not come close to a 1080ti, which is not much more than a beefed up Maxwell, they will lose a lot of respect. |
True. They have been cheaper at a similar performance level. But they have also consumed more power.
I don't believe AMD needs to beat nVidia's flagship, Polaris was a financial success and never achieved it, I mean it would be nice, competition is fantastic. I just don't think it will happen if the last half decade is any indication. (And I will love to be proven wrong, so get to it AMD!)
| JEMC said: There is one thing worth remembering: <SNIP> If Polaris can achieve 1,300MHz in the 580/70 and Vega's architecture is designed to achieve higher clock speeds, then that 1.2GHz from the engeenering sample used in the leaked benchmarks is not representative of the final performandce of the card. Also, there's the idea (I don't remember where it comes from) that Vega will be a 12.5TFlops chip, which would put the end card at 1.5GHz. |
The RX 580 tapped into those "Higher clocks" as well.
I am basing the Vega clock entirely on the 3D Mark leak. 1.2ghz isn't entirely unreasonable.
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