So, if I'm understanding this right, their values are roughly around $125, $150, <$350 and $400 respectfully?
Well, that sounds pretty much completely expected for a not-really-but-probably-more-or-less Fiji shrink. It's interesting their relative values are also pretty much proportional to the MSRP of Fury and Fury X ($550/$650).
Hey look, now Palmer can advertise VR as a $1000 upgrade for most people.
Cool to see that a chip that large is getting back to AMD already...granted I can't imagine an 8-core zen is THAT much smaller (and one can assume that's going through a year-long validation etc process). I also didn't realize whatever they've been demoing seems to have been first (granted, probably a VERY early sample) sent back in August...didn't know it was that early. I'm sure it's been re-spun at least once since then and whatever they are demoing is actually production silicon where that may not have even been close, but still.
While I understand the ~ps4/950 and 4k30/high-quality vr (et al other resolutions/frame rates for that level of performance) markets are probably the most important, it's still odd not to see a successor to Tonga, given other than HEVC it seemed the most straight forward chip to shrink (given it actually doubled the setup engines etc, unlike Fiji). I guess one possible explanation for that is perhaps they are waiting to equip it with some fashion of 256gbps HBM/HBM2 and perhaps better yields for better sustained higher clockspeeds on a slightly bigger chip (something like 1920sp/1200mhz give or take a CU and less than 100mhz?). That, or maybe they're all going to Nintendo (Just kidding...but one can hope!).
I suppose these are the two chips they were talking about then...very curious if/when we see 2x the bottom-end (or 1/2 the top-end) and 8x the low-end (2x the higher-end)....because it certainly *seems* possible based on what they've been showing. I guess convential wisdom would be 1 year if performance levels double (or cost decreases 1/2) every two years...which would imply a Fury X-like price a year after the ~Fiji-level $400 card.
As always, thanks for the tip TPU!
