The fact they keep saying they aren't going for the Ultra Enthusiast market means it's not likely to match Titan. 780 performance for a bit less money would be great though and with a nice game bundle i would definitely be considering one.
“They’re coming in Q4. I can’t reveal a pricepoint but we’re looking at more traditional enthusiast GPU pricepoints. We’re not targeting a $999 single GPU solution like our competition because we believe not a lot of people have that $999. We normally address what we call the ultra-enthusiast segment with a dual-GPU offering like the 7990. So this next-generation line is targeting more of the enthusiast market versus the ultra-enthusiast one. “It’s also extremely efficient. [Nvidia's Kepler] GK110 is nearly 30% bigger from a die size point of view. We believe we have the best performance for the die size for the enthusiast GPU. Translation, our next top of the line single GPU card will fall somewhere between the GTX 770 and the GTX 780 in performance at a competitive price.
We'll see what they actually come up with. The die size argument doesn't really impress me given that GF104 has a drastically smaller die size and is probably the most efficient architecture I've seen to date.
Well then these are mid-high range cards not even enthusiast if their flagship is up to just gtx780..how are they're going compete with next year's maxwell like that? Disaster omg AMD! :'(
Because 99% of people don't care about the top GPU's? Nearly all the discrete GPU's sold are low-mid range. Here is a Steam Hardware (read: average-enthusiast gamer systems) breakdown of GPU's used. I marked with red arrows the top of the line GPU's and with blue a single step down. Notice the % they have of the entire market: I'm with AMD on this choice, even if they are not the highest performing. As long as they bring down power levels and are able to produce their chips for cheaper, they win. It's the mid-range that matters not the top end.
The problem with that is Steam doesn't detect hardware correctly, especially with integrated GPU's and SLI.
Fine, take Best Buy's best selling list then: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Compute...ics-Cards/abcat0507002.c?id=abcat0507002&gf=y You have to reach spot #30 before you even come across a high-end card, the next high end card is at spot #53.
What a FAIL.. Is he really proud of making a chip that is slower in performance but smaller in die a year after the competition? Next, who really cares about TressFX? (other than those few who still J**K OFF on Lara) And they are not attacking ultra enthusiasts? Who does? Does he think Nvidia makes much money of TITANs? Surely not.They just have it cause they created it a year ago and their only competition still has no means of fighting it.So why not sell it for insane price. Look at 3960X/4960X..same story. What is worst, it seems that now that they have put their APU into poor performing "next-gen"consoles they believe they can stop pushing forward as they believe that consoles will hold 3D graphics for years.And I am afraid they will.. C'mon Nvidia, we need you more then ever to come up with something that's gonna kick-ass
There are plenty of times I might come across as hard on AMD, this is definitely not one of them. I am very happy with what I hear in this decision, it sounds like they are definitely starting to act more responsibly and focus on what makes their core money rather than branching out all over the place. So what if the next generation doesn't even beat the 780? As long as it is priced right, uses less power than the 780 and is cheaper to produce (smaller die size) than the competition; then AMD made a successful product. What AMD needs to do is come up with a working (not the half assed "Enduro") competitor to Nvidia's Optimus switchable graphics, then we might start seeing them in more notebooks/ultrabooks. The only place this hurts AMD is in the HPC market as they have no viable competitor to the top Tesla systems; however, the HPC market can be targeted with a different architecture if played right.
Okay, but you're removing the topic of this thread, which is supposedly going to be their flagship models, not a GTX 610 with DDR3 which is useful for playing solitaire.
Again, they are showing signs of finally shaping up as a company; which is why I am happy at this move. The desktop market is shrinking, the market for desktop enthusiast components like a $650 and $999 graphics card even more so. The reason Nvidia releases a card like the Titan and gets away with it is since the core was originally designed for the Tesla series for HPC. Nvidia owns around 90% of the HPC market, with AMD taking up most of the rest and Intel squeezing in there barely (XEON Phi). There just isn't any reason for AMD to invest in such an architecture other than penis sizing. Rather, if they focus on low power and cheap but good performance GPU's, then they can perhaps ride the new small server wave with an integrated Opteron+GCN unit for heterogeneous computing, and perhaps even start offering up competition in the HPC market again (as long as they start getting their CPU cores in order).
30% larger than Hawaii means Hawaii is 23% smaller than Kepler. It appears my now ancient 430mm^2 estimate for a decently sized 28nm AMD GPU was pretty close if not spot on. When you think about how nVidia designed GK110 with all the completely redundant dual precision units scattered all over the die next to the CUDA cores, then it's no surprise that anyone with the right mind to combine logic instead of separating it can achieve a significantly smaller die size with theoretical peak performance being more or less the same. Tessellation takes up a relative lot of logic in a GCN SP so that probably explains why the difference is so much less than 40%. In the end performance should be about equal, and sadly for nVidia, also Dual Precision performance.
You've got to keep in mind Nvidia doesn't support Directx 11.1 (and Directx 11.2), AMD does on on their older release HD7000 series . I really love the comments of Nvidia users, complaining say a future $400 graphics card can't beat a $1000 graphics card. Come next year, there is no sign of how Maxwell will perform either, and even if they are faster, can they be faster for the same pricepoint? Probably not!
