| EricHiggin said: Can't argue too much with that, other than the fact that Ferrari is still a Ferrari. People who own Corvettes, typically don't care they don't have a Ferrari or McLaren, etc, since they could never afford one anyway. A Corvette will do everything and more that the majority would expect it to do, so who really needs anything more, other than the elite minority who can afford to professionally race those cars? You very well could be right, but I think all of us are wondering if some of that Zen magic will rub off on Navi. With RTX launching fairly recently, I think it would be quite unlikely to see the next gen GPU from Nvidia for another 2-3 years. That doesn't mean they won't just get Pascal or Turing on the 7nm process sometime in 2019, so they can drop the price considerably for the 3000 models if they feel they need to better compete. Like you said, Navi could be in the ballpark for a short duration before Nvidia counters and resets the clock. Is Nvidia that worried though and would they bother re-launching on a new node instead of mostly focusing on the future of GPU design? |
Maybe, since current 7 nm is still a low power node, and AMD was unexpectedly sucessful in using a low power node for mid to high range products with Zen and CCX.
That would mean more that Nvidia delayed or messed up its next shrink instead of AMD being particularly great. But the market sort of needs it right now, for competition.
