remember when the 480 and 1060 came out and they were about even? not anymore.
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That video is already obsolete. I mean, AMD still wins, but even more now that AMD has released even better drivers - Radeon Crimson ReLive. About 8% performance bump, video capturing software and some other cool stuff. And people say that AMD drivers suck.
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I don't wanna say "I saw it coming" but...
Yeah I just got an RX480 but I have a FX6300 Black haha It will be interesting to see how it preforms. Will be upgrading to Zen
When I saw that video I was happy that AMD is now able to compete (somehow) with Nvidia. Now the company needs to step it up a notch and "attack" the higher spectrum of the market where the 1070, 1080 and Titan X just dominate. I hope this will bring prices down.
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AMD shouldn't compete atleast not yet on high tier GPUs, they're simply not ready yet.
Albeit they have made insane improvements the last 6 months to their software.
Segmenting Nvidia and intel really is the way to go for AMD as a strategy right now, they're no where near with a competitor for 1070/80 yet, nor interrested in competing im guessing.
AMDs new strategy is not competing with the "high end" hardware, but presenting hardware at a mid lv range(Mainstream) at alot more affordable prices than Nvidia, and Intel has, kind of like cutting the head of the hydra or hydras in this case.
But i agree with the OP, 480 > 1060 by a far stretch, just the mere fact you can buy a second 480 and beat the 1080 at 2/3rds the price, and roughly the same price as a 1070, where Nvidia won't even allow SLI 1060, sort of proves the stupidity AMD is competing against(which is what happens when bussiness people makes the choices rather then the engineers).
Yes that was indeed an interesting video.
My next gpu will be an AMD card again confirmed.
I don't get why this is news.
AMD has always had the better hardware. The only reason Nvidia cards outperform AMD cards is because AMD hires completely orangutans to develop the drivers.
Mark my words, by the end of next year, there will be a 30% performance increase for all AMD cards just through driver updates.
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Yeah this has been the case for a long time. There was another video, I think adored TV did it, comparing the newest drivers to the day one releases for competing nVidia and AMD cards and in almost every case AMD were slightly behind in the beginning and way ahead by the end of the cards main life.
AMD has always beat their competitor hardware after 2-3 years of driver updates. the 7970 didn't beat the 680 at first but after 2 years it beat both it and the 770 handily. 290 beat the 780, the 290X beat the 780Ti and the Titan, the 390 beat the 970 by a healthy margin and I daresay with these updates, the Fury cards have a much better shot at beating the 980Ti.
AMD has historically had technologically superior hardware designs - but Nvidia has the mindshare. That's literally the only reason Nvidia dominates the market, is because the average consumer doesn't know the difference and doesn't want to be confused with the details.
That could be a little of a stretch