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AMD Confirms RX 480 At $199 USD, Other APU & Polaris Announcements

AMD's press conference is over. No details on Vega. Probably won't be released until the summer at the earliest.

AMD better not delay too long, Nvidia will likely be announcing the 1080 Ti tonight. Its too bad Apple has hitched its cart to AMD. Its pretty tantalizing to imagine a Pascal based mac pro that could have been released 6 months ago.
 
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You have to question, why did Nvidia put 3584 CUDA Core GPU at 699$ price point?

Well, if you will remember my previous post: Vega will have great performance/$ ratio, you will know the reason for this.

Secondly, My post from GTX 1080 Thread and the specs of GTX 2080 Ti was "almost" correct. I did knew the specs for the GPU, but did not knew the name of it.

Vega will launch in Q2 in late April - Early may. That is the time span for this hardware. Prepare for silicon lottery. GPUs will come from both GloFo and Samsung Fabs.
 
Koyoot, you are doing that thing where you say things without citing your sources. Citing yourself is not a source...

koyoot said:
Well, if you will remember my previous post: Vega will have great performance/$ ratio, you will know the reason for this.
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Source? Based on what we know of vega its likely to be more expensive to manufacture than the 1080 Ti (GP102). Vega has a larger die and uses HBM2 memory and an interposer. This technology is more expensive than GDDR5 and GDDR5X.

koyoot said:
Vega will launch in Q2 in late April - Early may. That is the time span for this hardware.
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Source? AMD was awfully scant on details yesterday for a product that will be on shelves in less than 2 months...

Its gotta be painful for AMD to watch all those Ryzen systems get paired with Nvidia GPUs.
 
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Koyoot, you are doing that thing where you say things without citing your sources. Citing yourself is not a source...



Source? Based on what we know of vega its likely to be more expensive to manufacture than the 1080 Ti (GP102). Vega has a larger die and uses HBM2 memory and an interposer. This technology is more expensive than GDDR5 and GDDR5X.



Source? AMD was awfully scant on details yesterday for a product that will be on shelves in less than 2 months...

Its gotta be painful for AMD to watch all those Ryzen systems get paired with Nvidia GPUs.
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Lets wait and see if this "prediction" will turn out to be correct ;).
 
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2080Ti?
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/10series/geforce-gtx-1080-ti/?nvid=nv-int-g7-8271
1080Ti, typo?!

11GB GDDR5X mem? I need to see how that works. Not again those tricks with the memory I hope.
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Post from GTX 1080 Thread, 8th January of this year(!).
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Titan X replacement: full 3840 cores with 24(!) GB of VRAM. GTX 2080Ti - that can take completely the specs of Titan X in curernt form: 3584 CC's/12 GB of VRAM. I will not delve about the clock speeds, because it is up to Nvidia to see how they can position the hardware agains their competition.
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I knew about the core counts of the GPUs. The information came from retail line.

Currently the rumor is that there will be no Titan X replacement, and the Nvidia line of GPUs will top out at GTX 1080 Ti.

In that post are few bobs, and errors, and I should correct them currently, maybe in later time I will do this.

About the GTX 1080 Ti, its not a gimmick, its just requirement if you have 352 Bit Memory bus. Its more than enough for this GPU, which genuinely is slightly faster than GTX Titan X.

Stacc said:
Source? AMD was awfully scant on details yesterday for a product that will be on shelves in less than 2 months...

Its gotta be painful for AMD to watch all those Ryzen systems get paired with Nvidia GPUs.
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https://videocardz.com/66359/amd-radeon-rx-500-series-to-launch-in-april

Ask, and ya shall receive...
Connect the dots. Everything is on the table.
 
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I was hoping for more details on Vega.
Maybe they were waiting for the 1080Ti launch to tune Vega.
If those 12.5 TFlops are real then they still have the advantage over the Ti.
Let's see.
500 series being a rebrand but with XT2 seems almost confirmed. RX Vega will be the real deal though.
 
Thinking about picking up an RX 480.. will MacOS X recognize / use all 8 GB if I buy an 8 GB card, or am I better off with a 4 GB for now.. was going to use it for number crunching..

Or maybe wait until the Vega comes out which might drive down prices for RX 480s?
 
Enhance the world of gaming.
“Vega’s capabilities with the memory architecture and the new compute units are super exciting. It enormously reduces the constraints on resource sizes and empowers us to dramatically enhance the visual quality of our worlds and our games.”
— Billy Khan, Lead Project Programmer idTech6 / DOOM®
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http://ve.ga/rx/

So thats how it works. Now it was more clearly put. Interesting it appears that Vega Arch is capable of complete adaptation to workload on the-go.

It will be actually interesting to see how it will pan out in real world.
 
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