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ghost_of_fazz on 22 August 2013

I'm gonna get a GTX760 in a month, finally ditching AMD.

Good to hear nVidia is launching the 750 for the mainstream market : D



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ghost_of_fazz on 22 August 2013
CGI-Quality said:
ghost_of_fazz said:
I'm gonna get a GTX760 in a month, finally ditching AMD.

Good to hear nVidia is launching the 750 for the mainstream market : D

As a huge nVIDIA fan, even I ask, why the ditch?


I'm kinda tired of AMD's bad drivers, not that I expected anything today from my old Radeon 4850, but it happened since I got it back in 2008. The hardware was (and still is) awesome, but the drivers are bad.

Also, CUDA, for VRay RT and what not.



ultima on 22 August 2013
CGI-Quality said:
Hmmm...if this is your plan, nVIDIA, hurry up! I'd rather get a 790 than have to spend 2k+ on Titans.

With Maxwell around the corner, it's probably a bad idea to be getting a high-end 700 series.



           

Locknuts on 22 August 2013

A 790 would be ridiculous! I wonder if it would have 12GB VRAM lol! Overkill for my 1080p single monitor setup but the thought of it still gives me an e-boner.



Pemalite on 22 August 2013
ghost_of_fazz said:
CGI-Quality said:
ghost_of_fazz said:
I'm gonna get a GTX760 in a month, finally ditching AMD.

Good to hear nVidia is launching the 750 for the mainstream market : D

As a huge nVIDIA fan, even I ask, why the ditch?


I'm kinda tired of AMD's bad drivers, not that I expected anything today from my old Radeon 4850, but it happened since I got it back in 2008. The hardware was (and still is) awesome, but the drivers are bad.

Also, CUDA, for VRay RT and what not.


It probably doesn't help that the Radeon 4850 is on life-support now like with all it's older cards, so support is going to be minimal.

Tell you what though, I'm loving the 13.8 drivers, they pretty much fixed allot of the main issues, I'm justing waiting for them to fix the Eyefinity and Tri-fire frame latency in the next driver release and everything will be perfect.

But boy, 2 years having to put up with my 7970's, I need new cards. Faster cards. I haven't gone without upgrading this long in years!




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JEMC on 22 August 2013

It's good to hear that AMD plans to have a Titan-killer (though we'll see how it turns out to be), and it's also good that Nvidia has a card up its sleeve.

More cards on the higher end means more competition which will bring lower prices, and that will make the not so high cards like the 770/780 (I can't belive I'm saying this cards are not high end, lol) to lower its price in order to compete.

Bring it on! As soon as you can AMD/Nvidia!



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Slimebeast on 22 August 2013

When will we have a card 4x the performance of a 7850 (PS4) at a $400 price point? Because that is roughly the threshhold I think where I will go over from playing multiplatform games on PS4 to PC.



Slimebeast on 22 August 2013
CGI-Quality said:
Slimebeast said:

When will we have a card 4x the performance of a 7850 (PS4) at a $400 price point? Because that is roughly the threshhold I think where I will go over from playing multiplatform games on PS4 to PC.

You can get cards now that are fairly cheap that offer quite a bit of power of the 7850 (or PS4 GPU). 

lol that's not what I asked though.

I said 4 times faster than a 7850 at a fairly affordable price-point. Perhaps that will happen with 20nm?

Although I soon will probably buy a new PC with a cheapish GPU (7950 or something) to run in parallel with my PS4 for PC exclusives mostly. But the multiplats I will want to experience on PS4 until the PC-PS4 gap becomes very large.



Captain_Tom on 22 August 2013
Slimebeast said:

When will we have a card 4x the performance of a 7850 (PS4) at a $400 price point? Because that is roughly the threshhold I think where I will go over from playing multiplatform games on PS4 to PC.


The 7970 is 2x as strong and is $320 right now.  So I would say in under a year lol!



Slimebeast on 22 August 2013
CGI-Quality said:
Slimebeast said:
CGI-Quality said:

You can get cards now that are fairly cheap that offer quite a bit of power of the 7850 (or PS4 GPU). 

lol that's not what I asked though.

I said 4 times faster than a 7850 at a fairly affordable price-point. Perhaps that will happen with 20nm?

Although I soon will probably buy a new PC with a cheapish GPU (7950 or something) to run in parallel with my PS4 for PC exclusives mostly. But the multiplats I will want to experience on PS4 until the PC-PS4 gap becomes very large.

Perhaps not, but it should at least, give you an indication that you can get cards significantly more powerul already, for a good price. To be frank, "4x" is just a random number.

Then again, I don't look for "x" amount more powerful, I go for the absolute premium. Thus, we'll differ anyway.

Yeah, I know you're crazy with your budget. Nobody on VGC can match your comp. What was it again, two 690s?

I wish I could justify that kind of money because I certainly love the performance. But I remember back in 2006 when I bought a X1900XT at $600. It felt good but I also felt reckless with my economy.