That's true, they do design a SoC a generation.
That hardly compares to a full stack of CPUs for laptops, desktops and servers, including designing a chipset for each.
But even if we were to split that in 2 for both companies (not at all realistic, especially this gen with Ryzen, Epyc and...
That's true, to an extent.
Hardware is slower/more expensive, especially the more complex your design gets.
There are quite a few reasons that most players in the CPU/GPU are very much the big guys (Intel, Samsung, Qualcom, etc.), and many are very specialized (Intel, Nvidia, AMD, ARM, etc.)...
The answer, as many things in life, is money.
Nvidia spent $351M a quarter on R&D since 2014, according to this data. *
AMD spent $253M a quarter on R&D since 2014, according to this data. *
* Note: Last 13 quarters; dates are a bit different for both companies.
Now, even if we assume that AMD...
That's not entirely accurate.
People forget this market, but it's a pretty big one.
At my university, Titans are used as a machine learning and neural nets GPUs. They allow the university to buy more cards as they are cheaper than pro cards, and still have ample memory and have many CUs...
Well, I have an AMD card, so no real power limit as far as I know.
For NV, I'd use some moded BIOS, Skyn3t ones are usually great. He usually takes more care of the Classy and Kingpin ones. That's what I did when I had a Classy (but I didn't watercool so it wasn't as important).
They do, especially if you add more voltage. So, the better the cooling the better the OC. Especially if you go with a full water block.
Personally, I think I'll skip this gen and put a G10 on mine.
So, here's my prediction. I think it works well with most credible leaks so far.
I think that there is a Fiji card that just "underperforms" the 980Ti, but that one is not the full Fiji. I can't find it now, and this thread is way too long to look through (tried searching to no avail), but...
I think you should wait, and see what happens. If you still think the 295x2 is the better option, well, it'll be cheaper.
Another option, which you may have not considered, and will be cheaper and not too far behind in performance, is going trifire with a 295x2 and a 290x (obviously go for a...
I think that a lot of these Radeons were returns for issues like a fan going from mining.
A friend of mine got 20 TRI-X cards for mining, and had to return 4 of these, only for fan issues. Now, one of those returns ended up being really bad, but that's another issue :)
Well, they have time. As for the rest, well, I believe that they don't get access, or at least same level of access, but have no way of knowing for sure. It's just a hunch.
But I really hope that AMD will come through and will get a driver either on release day or a couple days after at the...
I think eblveryone is forgetting one thing. nV has already released the drivers for the game, so NV cards are optimised for it. AMD, on the other hand, hasn't. So, we should see at least a small improvement on most AMD cards in the next few weeks, and the comparison is not exactly apples to...
As much as I agree that prices in Canada are crazy, what people are asking for on Kijiji isn't necessarily what they're getting. You can get a TRI-X 290X for $300 on Kijiji. I know. I am selling one
On topic, I wonder what they'll do, as was just mentioned. Let us know, those that ordered.
Whereas I agree that some people have that problem, not all of us. I can tell you that some of the reasons for my upgrades were exactly the VRAM. I went 780 ti -> 290x just for that basically. So, I don't think it is always the case. Also, keep in mind that the 970/980 came out a little while...
@RS great post. I agree with a lot of what you wrote, about value and things like that.
But, even if there isn't a single game that currently requires 4GB at lower resolutions (1080p/1440p), I do believe this will happen in the very near future.
Because of the integrated memory system of the...
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