RX Vega Predictions

[vivster]

Pemalite said:

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!)

Being profitable once with one series isn't something a company should strive for, nor is it sustainaiable with a ridiculously strong competitor like Nvidia. AMD has an image problem and one way to solve this is to be able to claim to have the strongest GPU on the market. Doesn't even matter how much it costs. It needs to be in people's minds that AMD can provide power even if they don't have the funds to buy it. It will drum up a lot of good will and confidence in consumers.

Usually it shouldn't be hard since Nvidia and AMD have staggered new GPUs so there was a time when AMD could claim superiority once their new gen hits the market. But now they're hitting the market and it has zero impact because their newest generation of GPUs can't even handle a year old architecture.

To gain any momentum from Vega they need to be on par with a 1080ti. Everything else is bollocks. Otherwise they would have to follow up really quickly with Navi to somehow contain Volta.