[EDIT]hmmm.....whats going on at AMD? (and history of 3Dfx Rampage)

[RolloTheGreat]

More info on Polaris: http://www.techpowerup.com/222450/more-p...s-revealed

It might just be me, but I'm not sure a die shrunk Hawaii is what the market has been waiting for.

(except ATVF posters who are mostly waiting for AMD, according to their poll)

It seems odd that NVIDIA now has 80% of the discrete market and the poster on ATVF will be avoiding Pascal at a 2:1 ratio. Very mysterious......

The only bright spot for AMD right now is that one rumor that said that Polaris 10 "Ellesmere" is as fast as a GTX 980 Ti.  If it really is that fast and it's priced well, then a card like that will sell like hotcakes for AMD and it will be very successful for them.  Most of the rumors, however, are saying that it's only as fast as a 390/390x which is disappointing IMO.  Most serious gamers already have a GPU in that ballpark.  We want something faster.  It's not exciting to have the performance of a flagship from 2 generations ago.  I guess it will be nice in the sub $200 segment but it's not nearly as exciting as Pascal IMO.  Vega is too far off and I would be shocked to see it compete with Big Pascal when it finally comes out as the GTX 1080 Ti.

Depends who you mean. For AMD stockholders and employees, locking down the next two consoles is probably a big deal as they survive to fight another day.

For guys like me with a custom cooled 290 in my 1600p pc and a 980Ti (at least until I sold it for $520 a few weeks ago) in my 4K pc, 290X performance at any price isn't going to even elicit a yawn.

The spambots on the forums will talk about how AMD is bringing all the performance you need at a great price and talk up these parts like they are some "new" technical marvel, but the true mission is indeed consoles as that is AMDs remaining stronghold market.

The future really was Fusion.