Right, this is not going to happen, remember the amount of backlash they got on disabling laptop GPU overclocking? The amount of backlash over this would be insane.
Not really an "answer" imo. The 1070 is over a year old and close enough, they could have just called it a day until the next gen. More like "Look AMD, we don't even have to design something new and just release a beefed up 1070 to beat your new card."
Not really an "answer" imo. The 1070 is over a year old and close enough, they could have just called it a day until the next gen. More like "Look AMD, we don't even have to design something new and just release a beefed up 1070 to beat your new card."
Oh well... overclocking has gotten kinda... vanilla anyway. I remember when it was still seen as kinda taboo what with the FSB and BLK frequency tweaking and all that... Used to be more of an art to overclocking both GPU and CPU alike.
Oh well... overclocking has gotten kinda... vanilla anyway. I remember when it was still seen as kinda taboo what with the FSB and BLK frequency tweaking and all that... Used to be more of an art to overclocking both GPU and CPU alike.
Not really an "answer" imo. The 1070 is over a year old and close enough, they could have just called it a day until the next gen. More like "Look AMD, we don't even have to design something new and just release a beefed up 1070 to beat your new card."
I'm not sure but they could just have enough cores not passing 1080 requirement to call them 1070 ti. Use as many cores as they can instead of throwing them away.
That way they have a vega answer, get some extra money, and be more efficient while getting ready for Volta in 6-8 months from now.
I'm not sure but they could just have enough cores not passing 1080 requirement to call them 1070 ti. Use as many cores as they can instead of throwing them away.
This is exactly it. A 1080 requires all 20 SMs physically present on the GP104 chip to be functioning properly, so if even 1 SM fails then it currently has to be relegated to the 15 SM 1070 and have 4 "good" SMs wastefully lasered off. It's much better to let those "near misses" be used to their full capacity, not to mention that it will provide a minor refresh to the Pascal line while the Volta consumer cards get prepared for market (presumably for Q2 2018).
but Vega is highly dependent on HBM2 which is the only company pushing HBM2 for a mainstream product at so low price meanwhile 1080 probably had less issues using GDDR5X
get water cooled or quad fans on that vega, i got the 56 with 64 bios, 1100 hbm 1700 on the cores, undervloted, this card is insane and still throttles with 100% fans, gona get this 1070 ti be4 my ears start bleeding
Couldn't decide on what to get next to replace my fried out 290x. Vega 56 looks good but over priced and 1070 seems also over priced, 1060 isn't much of an upgrade so it looks like I'll be in the 400 dollar price range after all.
If I'm in the 400s for a graphics card what is another 30,40 or 50 bucks might as well try to find a 1070 ti. That's a real upgrade to me
Oh well... overclocking has gotten kinda... vanilla anyway. I remember when it was still seen as kinda taboo what with the FSB and BLK frequency tweaking and all that... Used to be more of an art to overclocking both GPU and CPU alike.
I was considering waiting to upgrade my R9 390 for a 1070ti later next year, but no overclock = no buy. Prices on Vega 56 will have likely tanked to $350 range by then.
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Couldn't decide on what to get next to replace my fried out 290x. Vega 56 looks good but over priced and 1070 seems also over priced, 1060 isn't much of an upgrade so it looks like I'll be in the 400 dollar price range after all.
If I'm in the 400s for a graphics card what is another 30,40 or 50 bucks might as well try to find a 1070 ti. That's a real upgrade to me
The RX 580 is basically a triple refresh of the 290x. Extremely negligible increase in performance, it's toe to toe in most games, or the 580 is 10% better. Considering how old the 290x is, that's sad and really underscores how sorry AMD is as a competitor in the GPU market.
I dont think the RX 580 is meant to replace the 290/390 to begin with...
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