09-19-2016, 07:09 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-19-2016, 07:24 AM by RolloTheGreat.)
(09-19-2016, 05:10 AM)ocre Wrote: How could Vega be a pascal titan competitor?
Let's be real.
Its not making sense to me. Polaris is more than half of the 4000sp vega. If 2 polaris chips was as fast as the pascal titan, it would still be hard to imagine. 4000sp vega is significantly less..polaris x2 is 30% more cores.
Architectural improvements that would be needed to close that gap alone would be an extremely large order. Like, on the levels of unrealistic and unreasonable. But even if by some special powers amd manages such heavenly and super strengths..out of the blue..its still not anywhere near enough.
2 polaris chips would not be a competitor for the titan polaris nor the 1080ti. And the Vega has a tall order to match the power of 2 polaris with a huge deficit in sp cores. Vega, seems to me, a struggle and will compete with the 1080.
Amd is at a wall in mghz and power consumption. A 4000sp vega makes sense based on the power consumption of polars. The power saved by scratching the 256bit bus is probably half of what they gained when they dropped the 512 from hawaii. It adds up for me, the 4000sp is the limit determined by power limits. Vega will use upwards of 250watts, have 4000sp and clocks wont be much different than that of polaris.
Everything you say makes sense, but I said "AMD competes" not "AMD beats Titan P".
If AMD can bring ~1080 DX11 performance, and better DX12 performance, for $499 it shakes up the landscape of the market.
That would be legit high end competition that would bring 1080 to the $500 they should have launched for, and might get the 1080Ti to $750 or $799..
In the absence of this part at that price point I think we'll see $900/$999 as 1080Ti price points.