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Nvidia or AMD Early 2014??

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Bowen

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I was wondering when and what Nvidia and AMD will be releasing in early 2014? I'm looking to upgrade, and I currently have a GeForce GTX 670 SC and love it, but it's time to move on now. I'm specifically looking at the $400 price point which usually offers to the 2nd to the top single core GPU.

I'm assuming it will be called the 800 series. I see AMD just released the Radeon 290. I've had Nvidia cards for a long time, and the last time I had a Radeon was the Radeon 9800 Pro. After that, it's been all Nvidia cards.

I'm hoping Nvidia will release something, since I'm used to Nvidia, but I'm open to going back to AMD if need be. I'm looking for a card that will allow me to run pretty much any game on it's highest mode. I specifically play Battlefield 3, 4 and SWTOR and I'll be getting TitanFall, when it's released next year.

Looks like I found a rumor that looks like it might be true. There are a couple sites saying Nvidia will be releasing Maxwell in the 1st Qtr. of 2014. Looks like the new 20nm process will be delayed, but I'm totally fine with using Maxwell at a 28nm process. http://videocardz.com/45403/nvidia-t...ell-in-q1-2014

I'll admit, I'd rather get a Nvidia card since I've had so many with very few problems, but at the very worst I'll end up getting a R9 290. I guess that wouldn't be too horrible. :p
 
maxwell in q1 2014 is right now a unsubstantiated rumour. 20nm GPUs are not going to be out till q3 2014 and I doubt nvidia will release a 28nm maxwell. i can see nvidia releasing a GM104 aka GTX 880 on 20nm in Q3 2014. nothing before that.

the card to get is a custom R9 290 , preferably the asus dcii top or his iceq x2. both are fantastic coolers. a R9 290 is the best bang for buck card. get a good custom card and overclock this chip to 1.2 - 1.25 ghz. performance close to GTX 780 Ti OC for USD 300 less. :D

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=25264082

http://www.techspot.com/review/736-amd-radeon-r9-290/page8.html

"Update: Based on your feedback, I took the IceQ X2 cooler off the HIS Radeon R9 280X and stuck it on our R9 290 sample. Cooling was dramatically improved. The FurMark stress test maxed out at 76 degrees while the card never exceeded 63 degrees in Crysis 3 and Battlefield 4. So it seems as expected the board partners will be able to solve the heat issues of the reference card."
 
Something that gets lost in translation is the concept of "quarters." The problem is things get confusing because the actual time frame for a quarter gets muddled since it is never specified. Calendar year and fiscal years don't match and also fiscal years by companies don't match.

State of manufacturing at TSMC - http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/other/..._Regarding_16nm_FinFET_and_20nm_Progress.html

Are you actually having problems running the games you listed with your GTX 670? You don't state your resolution but Titanfall is unlikely to be very demanding given the information we have. Is BF4 not running okay for you?

If it were me unless you need the performance now I would rather wait.
 
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