Polaris Vs Pascal

I'm not looking to start a AMD vs Nvidia pissing match..

I know we have very little info on both, but both seem very promising with that being said.

I currently have a Asus AMD 380X 4GB oc'ed edition (to the max) it's been good, but I might be looking to upgrade again once these new cards release.

Should I stick with AMD and maybe crossfire both cards

(380X and what ever new card that's in the same "class" as this 380X.)

OR get rid of the 380X jump ship and grab a Nvidia 1070 when released?

With the info we have now, whats looking to be the "better" platform?

When it comes to these newer GPU stuff, I know very little.

If you have any info on these please share.

Thanks

 

from whats been released so far. Next gen NVidia hammers absolutely everything currently available and is looking to be well worth it. However, we dont have any info on AMD so its still too early to say which is going to be the better offering.

 

I've had 2 crossfire setups before. Unless someone promises you'll never have to use alternate frame rendering. I doubled my frames but they came in un even Bursts. Micro stutter combo breaker.

 

with a 1080 being more powerful than 2 980's in SLI, yeah no, you arent going to need multi GPU setups

 

Gtx 1080 is 2x faster than Titan X, but only in VR. DirectX performance is probably going to be faster by less than 30%, which is still faster than anything out today.
From Nvidia press conference

 

AMD is dropping to 14nm chips while nVidia is going to 16nm. I think we were around 26 or 24nm for the last few cards, not sure but still have to check.

AMD has a chance at this, but we will have to wait and see.

 

Always go Nvidia if you want high end performance. If you're strapped for cash and want a slightly better price : performance ratio, go AMD.

 

Last gen AMD is better than Nvidia at every single price point except for the top-tier 980Ti. And the Fury X still outperforms the 980Ti in DX12.

 

Notably. 3 of the 4 cards were VRAM limited. Titan X was only one which was not.

 

Tomb Raider isn't a DX12 game, only uses a wrapper. Why use it for benchmarks while better utilities are out there that fit the task?

 

All about GTX 1080 Founders Edition performance:

 

So since we know what AMD has to offer for the RX480 what do you guys think?

knowing the low pricing i'm thinking cross firing a 480 8GB with my current 380X 4GB.

Would they do good working with each other?

or dump the 380X and go with a single 1080?

 

polaris performance jump is completely non exceptional. 480 matches a 390, so basically would be a downgrade over a 390X most likely or if not a downgrade, certainly no upgrade at all except for the lower TDP and price. For raw performance, pascal has it by a mile.

Thats not to say polaris is bad. The 480 being 200 dollars approx? Thats insane value.

 

Not worth it, maybe in future if AMD plan about multi GPU will succeed, but then developers would have to made games to work with it so not big chances right now. Stay with you GPU or go for 1070/1080 if you are in hurry, if not wait for Vega. Then decide after 3rd party benchmarks results.

Exactly, you are right. Polaris will not compete with GTX 1080, it wasn't meant to. It's "goal" is to be power efficient, kind of cheap for it's performance and to spread VR. For AMD's high end we have to wait for Vega, which will have HBM2, but we don't know anything more about it.

@Edit. Ps that AMD conference was a fail - I was really excited to watch it, but it was boring, they didn't gave us release dates, any specs of Zen, CEO told that IPC is 40% faster while marketing guys said before that over 40% because it's better than they thought etc. They gave us most info about APUs which are just upgraded 6th gen, still 28nm. I always wonder why they really can't do something entertaining like for example NVidia.

 

I sincerely hope AMD produces something worth while, performance wise. I was incredibly hopeful that AMD might have released some competing specs and benchmarks when the 1080 was released, considering they have gained a significantly large advantage over their old chips by using a smaller 14nm chip setup; alas, they haven't bragged about anything particularly great other than the price of their cards... which is something most people tend to ignore when looking for the best, not that you can blame them for targeting a larger audience.

 

I'm curious if Polaris or Vega will allow native 4-way crossfire support. Both businesses looking for compute performance, along with enthusiasts with a excess amount of money to spend on four top-of-the line gpus would probably want support from the manufacture.

 

If I remember right from the launch event they had said it would support full 4 way crossfire.

 

when i saw polaris i thought we were talking about RZR's lelel