Pemalite said:
hinch said:
Impressive, though price is quite staggering.
This probably also means that Nvidia will bump up prices across the board for consumer cards... Thanks AMD  Oh well, no competition means my next card will most likely be a GTX2080.
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I jumped onto Polaris as I got tired of waiting for Vega.... And just couldn't stand dealing with Cedar.
Hoping Navi is enough of a jump over Polaris to warrant a purchase... As Vega wasn't it.
Otherwise I might actually do the unthinkable. Make a wander over to the green side. (Something I haven't done in years.)
Still, we should get Navi in about 6-9 months, not to much longer to wait with only a Polaris based card.
There is also a few things being floated around that AMD may take a Threadripper approach with Navi, where AMD uses it "fabric" to stitch together a heap of smaller, cheaper to manufacture chips... Which could mean some big things as far as price/performance is concerned and should result in less re-badging of old crap.
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If your GPU play games fine on your setup waiting a bit longer shouldn't hurt.
I would be in the market for an AMD GPU (given I have a freesync monitor), though I'm pretty sure Navi will launch quite a bit after Nvidia's more mainstream cards. Hopefully AMD can pull through in the GPU market and pull off a "Ryzen" like product.. as Nvidia dominance means less progress for all.
As for fabric stitching.. this would be interesting to see.. if it works on GPU's as well. Seeing how well Threadripper scales with extra cores.
