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Ouch. I was hoping amd would be more competitive this round( although it seems not bad for low end), more co.petition being good for everyone.
by marak830 10y ago
Ouch. I was hoping amd would be more competitive this round( although it seems not bad for low end), more co.petition being good for everyone.
- dogma1138 10y agoNot really, Polaris doesn't look like very scaleable atm. PCIe spec issues aside, the 480 draws ~200W in some games this is more than the GTX 1080, and in even in games where it only draws 150-160W it's still more than the GTX 1070 on average. To compete with the 1080 AMD needs to release a 300-350W card, and from the looks of it to compete the big die 1080ti / Titan P that would come out they are looking at 400-550W cards. Keep in mind that the 480 is already their "small" die on a 14nm FinFET process there is nothing more to shrink at this point. The R480 is still a great card 200$ for GTX970 superclocked performance isn't bad atm. I'm thinking this is going to be a repeat of the R79XX series, where AMD can't compete with NVIDIA on single die cards and they'll release a dual die card. My own theory is that AMD will rebrand the Fury X2 and release it to compete with the 1080/1080ti's since Polaris looks to be way too power hungry atm.