Wednesday, April 26th 2017
AMD Radeon Vega in the League of GTX 1080 Ti and TITAN Xp
In an AMA (ask me anything) session with Tom's Hardware community, AMD desktop processor marketing exec Don Woligrosky answered a variety of AMD Ryzen platform related questions. He did not shy away from making a key comment about the company's upcoming high-end graphics card, Radeon Vega, either. "Vega performance compared to the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti and the Titan Xp looks really nice," Woligrosky stated. This implies that Radeon Vega is in the same league of performance as NVIDIA's two top consumer graphics SKUs, the $650 GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, and the $1,200 TITAN Xp.
It is conceivable that AMD's desktop processor marketing execs will have access to some privileged information from other product divisions, and so if true, this makes NVIDIA's recent memory speed bump for the GTX 1080 a failed gambit. NVIDIA similarly bumped memory speeds of the GTX 1060 6 GB to make it more competitive against the Radeon RX 580. Woligrosky also commented on a more plausible topic, of the royalty-free AMD FreeSync becoming the dominant adaptive v-sync technology, far outselling NVIDIA G-Sync.
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Tom's Hardware
It is conceivable that AMD's desktop processor marketing execs will have access to some privileged information from other product divisions, and so if true, this makes NVIDIA's recent memory speed bump for the GTX 1080 a failed gambit. NVIDIA similarly bumped memory speeds of the GTX 1060 6 GB to make it more competitive against the Radeon RX 580. Woligrosky also commented on a more plausible topic, of the royalty-free AMD FreeSync becoming the dominant adaptive v-sync technology, far outselling NVIDIA G-Sync.
196 Comments on AMD Radeon Vega in the League of GTX 1080 Ti and TITAN Xp
Navi will follow Volta.
A: Because they don't actually "shoe it in".
Tons of talk and no solid hardware/software to back it up.
Revisionist history. Have you seen nvidia slides and graphs? Lolololol
Wait till the card releases before you all have your little BS parades. Everything is just FUD at this point.
Kill the hype!
(Of course what Intel did was illegal, I'm not disputing that.)
Remember as far as amd goes normally they do brute force through everything and leaked vega specs hint very well at that happening again.
Not positive about the 1070, as that may be a little more expensive, but 780 released at $650, and then bumped down to $500 when the 780Ti was launched at $700. Titans have always been over $1k, while it sucks for those that buy them that they went up by $200, that's such a small segment it really doesn't matter.
Obviously, there are more NVIDIA chips sold for desktops. It's even more obvious in case of notebooks.
Is it about LCDs? It's very likely that there more FreeSync monitors sold - simply because it's also implemented in cheap models. But as a result a huge majority of FreeSync LCD owners is not using it.
Why would the majority of users buy a VRR monitor when a Non-VRR monitor will be suitable at a lower price.
With this i'm not saying it HAS to destroy Pascal, and be on par with Volta (that for all we know could be not even that much better than Pascal), but be at least on par with 1080ti at the same price, (we already know its efficiency would be well behind Pascal, they couldn't have done much of a big jump from Polaris in those terms), if they manage around Polaris efficiency, with 1080ti performance, is a big thing, otherwise i see it as a failure.
Who knows what it really means and reading too much into something is entertaining
Maybe it was a moment of honesty and your going to need good voltage to run it. :p