Arkus
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Here's an interesting thought experiment! What if Nvidia don't deliver and AMD do with a 5-10% performance increase over Nvidia with lower heat and power combined with their lower prices. What would you buy?
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As I think I mentioned earlier, i doubt there is that much more performance that both teams can squeeze out of their cards without putting the clocks up or doing something Frankenstein. If there is a fairly significant improvement, then I would be rather annoyed (let me explain) that would mean that that potential performance increase was there all the time and would have been able to be utilised on the last gen of cards which meant that both companies were cheating the consumer.
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At least if AMD does well, then their R&D budget goes through the roof meaning that they will be able to scare the pants off of Nvidia and their fan boys in years to come because they have money (which it all comes down to). To be fair though, AMD hasn't been doing very well for the last few years so those who were loyal to AMD have went to Nvidia. I just hope over the next couple of generations the tables will turn, or is at least be more balanced.
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Maxwell was reported to be a 20nm chip something which we won't be seeing for some time
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I can't find the forum article at the moment but a condensed version of what is said was that: there wasn't that much they could change on that architecture (Nvidia) so increasing the clock speed was one of the only ways of increasing performance, which would result in more heat.
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There has been speculation over both companies using closed loop water cooling systems built in to allow higher, more stable overclocks.
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Aside from price and power efficiency/heat there isn't much between them. At the end of the day, the competition will be good from consumers.
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With rumours of both companies reusing the 28nm process for their new up and coming GPUs to be released in the next couple months (hopefully) Will we see more fierce than usual competition between AMD and Nvidia? Talk can be heard all across the internet of AMD trying to drastically increase power efficiency and reduce heat output for their latest cards putting more pressure on Nvidia to stay on top of their game. Both up and coming cards appear to be using the same 28nm process and layout of the previous generation. Will AMD pull ahead this time around with their highly competitive pricing, improved power efficiency and heat output? Or will Nvidia retain their lead by pulling an ace out their sleeve? What do you think? Main Sources: itworld.com/hardware/419558/amd-may-finally-have-power-efficient-gpu-works theregister.co.uk/2014/06/20/amd_25x20_power_efficiency_pledge/
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@mvitkun Thanks for your reply and your constructive criticism, to reply to your last comment I feel we have all been let down by the overclock ability of Haswell chips. With the new and improved cooling design of the Devil's Canyon chips and the alleged tweaks to allow for increased under-volting capacity I'm confident that if 5 GHz figure is tangible on air. Then I feel that it is almost certain that we will see a sizable performance gain on water or exotic cooling additionally. -
Another topic of conversation, what do you think the performance increase would be if you got a i5 4690k to 5.5 - 6 GHz?
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@Manny Calavera Main source: http://www.techpowerup.com/200725/intel-devils-canyon-to-usher-in-5-ghz-on-air-overclocking-era.html
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I'm sure a healthy dose of undervolting might nudge things alone a bit, above the mid 5 GHz range
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Intel have said that they are ruthlessly binning Haswell chips to achieve this, so maybe not this generation reaching 6 GHz but the increased efficiency of Broadwell might dawn a new era of uber overclocking.
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@Kaiser Soze Thanks for the comment, I was thinking more along the lines of: Would it be POSSIBLE, for instance with some exotic sub-ambient cooling
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One of my best friends build a new gaming rig and hit the jackpot reaching 4.9 GHz on his I5 4670k with a H100i on all cores so I am hopeful
