09-19-2016, 09:11 AM
(09-19-2016, 07:15 AM)SickBeast Wrote: AMD is going to hit a heat and perhaps a power wall when it comes to Vega. Polaris already runs hot. Cram in that many cores and it's a recipe for disaster. If you thought Hawaii was hot and loud, I would suggest that Vega will take it to another level. My prediction is that AMD is going to have to underclock the card quite a bit to keep the thermals in line, and by doing that the performance is going to really suffer. My prediction is that it will offer performance in between a GTX 1070 and a GTX 1080, and no better than that. And it won't overclock *at all*.
It will be an overclockers dream SB, just like Fury X.
Eh, I'm hoping respins are going to bring 1080 level performance to Vega so we see some price breaks.
It's hard for me to want to spend $1000 on the Ti when:
A. The last one was $650
B. I don't really game anymore (at least lately)
C. My son's computer gaming is nowhere close to taxing the 980Ti Classified