Ieldra
I Promise to RTFM
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Nvidia trumps amd when it comes to anything professional and big part of it is drivers. AMD doesn't have the resources to do any better and they will always be behind in nvidia when it comes to that. Until this day nvidia outdoes AMD with their dx11 drivers, it is well known and I have read up quiet a bit on it. Nvidia really does a lot of magic in software where AMD just goes brute force way. Thats just the way its been. AMD wont get any better all of sudden.
Then why is this card marketed towards professional 3d work and then compared to GP102 with gaming drivers ? it's not only in the drivers, nvidia has traditionally had far far more geometry performance which is very important in pro graphics as you can have very complex models etc.
This is NOT the AMD equivalent of the Titan line. These are not running gaming drivers, these are running pro drivers, for pro graphics. It should be compared to other cards with drivers for pro graphics, the people spending 2K to buy one of these are not morons, but AMD clearly intends to treat them as such if it gets them a sale, because this comparison to Titan X is seriously shameful
The Vega FE has only one market where it is even remotely relevant and thats machine learning, but with fledgling support for ROCm it will have a hill to climb. All it offers is packed FP16 at double throughput, which is exclusive to GP100. In that context it costs less than half as much, but it doesn't do half rate FP64