seanclayton
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Just imsgine with better drivers.
I'm pretty sure this is a midrange. nvdia with have to release a real highend gpu soon. GTX 980 and its not so highend specs ain't gonna cut it.
no way that's 380X.
Well it does say "simple." I just can't see this anymore than a midrange. Maybe a 390 worst case scenario.
Performance looks very good, but it's still not a big enough increase IMO for those that want to game at 4K with all the bells and whistles.
Also, judging from that bench the full-fat Maxwell (GM200) will likely still end up being 30% faster than this chip. So hopefully this is not the flagship next-gen chip from AMD otherwise we're going to see another 1000$+ Titan from Nvidia.
gawd. the 980 is so old. ugh
If it is 380X, I think my regret for buying sli 970's just broke the meter twice.
If it is 390X, while it is quite some improvement, it probably would mean nVidia would still sit back on this generation...
If it is 370x.... I am not going to even start..
4k is what crossfire is for.
There's quite a valid reason to water cool a 200 watt GPU with an AIO cooler. I have a 7870xt GPU (cut down 7900 series gpu and not a 7800). It pulls over 200 watts under full load and dumps the heat right into my case for the most part.
All that heat rises and raises my AIO coolant temps by around 7 degrees with the radiator fans under volted. Now imagine this with someone running an air cooled rig. You're suddenly feeding preheated air to you cpu cooling, ram, and motherboard. By using an AIO cooler for the GPU, you can remove that heat from the case and not have to use it for cooling your other parts. As soon as I can put together a custom loop, I plan on doing exactly this with my rig and putting my AIO on it.
There's quite a valid reason to water cool a 200 watt GPU with an AIO cooler. I have a 7870xt GPU (cut down 7900 series gpu and not a 7800). It pulls over 200 watts under full load and dumps the heat right into my case for the most part.
All that heat rises and raises my AIO coolant temps by around 7 degrees with the radiator fans under volted. Now imagine this with someone running an air cooled rig. You're suddenly feeding preheated air to you cpu cooling, ram, and motherboard. By using an AIO cooler for the GPU, you can remove that heat from the case and not have to use it for cooling your other parts. As soon as I can put together a custom loop, I plan on doing exactly this with my rig and putting my AIO on it.
Performance looks very good, but it's still not a big enough increase IMO for those that want to game at 4K with all the bells and whistles.
Also, judging from that bench the full-fat Maxwell (GM200) will likely still end up being 30% faster than this chip. So hopefully this is not the flagship next-gen chip from AMD otherwise we're going to see another 1000$+ Titan from Nvidia.
If it is true, probably to be expected.
It'd be quite embarassing if their new flagship didn't beat nVidia's
Considering the 970/980 are just mid-range chips (GM204), AMD needs to target the full Maxwell (GM200/210).
Problem for AMD is that Maxwell has been around nearly a year now and NVIDIA has probably got a successor to it lined up. So they not only have to fight GM204/210 but whatever else NVIDIA has cooked up after more than a year. They are pretty far behind right now and it will be tough to catch up.
There's quite a valid reason to water cool a 200 watt GPU with an AIO cooler. I have a 7870xt GPU (cut down 7900 series gpu and not a 7800). It pulls over 200 watts under full load and dumps the heat right into my case for the most part.
All that heat rises and raises my AIO coolant temps by around 7 degrees with the radiator fans under volted. Now imagine this with someone running an air cooled rig. You're suddenly feeding preheated air to you cpu cooling, ram, and motherboard. By using an AIO cooler for the GPU, you can remove that heat from the case and not have to use it for cooling your other parts. As soon as I can put together a custom loop, I plan on doing exactly this with my rig and putting my AIO on it.