AMD’s GPU 2014 Tech Day will be taking place on September 25th. As part of the event AMD will be holding a product showcase at 3pm EDT (19:00 UTC) that they will be webcasting live to the public. AMD’s press release doesn’t give any further details on what they’ll be showing off, but given AMD’s earlier enthusiast GPU tease, it’s a safe bet that they’ll be showing off the aforementioned GPU.
Thursday is going to be one hell of a fun day, and not just for AMD fans... Really looking forward to it hoping it will be the 300 series announcement (hoping that they are the 20nm monsters they were planned to be and not a rushed design. AMD take your time getting it right)
My thoughts exactly. Plus I don't see the 295x being able to compete with the 970/980 since I don't see it being that much faster than a 290x, and i doubt the power consumption will be able to even come close to matching Maxwell's.
But maybe AMD will surprise us with an incredible 295x. Who knows.
If they are and the performance increase per watt is even half of Nvidia's... I may have found my next card (if I can get the money and still pay for gas).
be nice to see competition flare back up, though i honestly expect another one of those "they had an event, let's do that" just to build up hype over very little
AMD is going 20nm process and more stream processors.
Nvidia is still 28nm process, but they choosed to lower the amount of cuda cores, to save power. and instead of that adding some compression technology magic thingy.
So it will be an interessting show off, between both architectures. Nvidia will most likely win in terms of power consumption, But i personaly not realy bother to much about that.
The thing i do care about is the best performance for my €
I mean, even if the 390x is clocked at like 800 Mhz, assuming it does have 4224 stream processors won't it most likely destroy the 980 in terms of performance? And even moreso if you OC it.
I would think it would. Especially at higher resolutions. Lots of the performance increase on the 900 series cards is coming from high clock speeds and their compression witchcraft. I feel like that compression technology, along with narrower memory buses, hurts the cards at higher resolutions though. I've seen some 4K benchmarks where the 980 only beats the 290X by 2-5 FPS as opposed to the 20FPS in winds by in some games at lower resolutions. i have a feeling that the compression technology can only give you so much and it struggles at higher resolutions. So while I'm sure they will be closer at 1080p at 1440p+ I'm guessing the 390X will stomp the 980.
Kind of a shame though no one will care. AMD could build a card 300% faster than a 980 and all the fanboys would declare the nVidia the winner because it uses 10W less power... Hopefully the 20nm shrink will save some juice but I really doubt these cards will be cool or efficient. I just can't imagine it would be at 4000+ SP.
