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I am going to buy a new Polaris gpu when they come out and was going to sell my gtx 950 but i am seeing some stuff about multi gpu setups being easier with DX12. My question is if the 950 is worth keeping to use alongside my new polaris card in the future. I'm not sure because it is a dx 11 card mainlly or if I could at least utilize the extra vram. Any help would be much appreciated. thanks
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Greetings. Ever since the price on the R9 Nano dropped to $450-$500 last year, I've been very interested in the GPU as an upgrade option. Currently, I'm running a Seasonic ECO-430 which only has one 6+2-pin PCI-e power connector. This means that I'll need to spend an additional $75 on a power supply if I'm to upgrade to something like an R9 390, and assuming I can get one for $300 ($375 for both), I'll only be spending $75 more to get a substantially more powerful R9 Nano instead, which will also run just fine on my 430w power supply due to its low TDP, and it only needs the one 6+2-pin PCI-e power connector. However, despite the price drop, its $450 pricetag was still a little too far out of my range, but is still among the best upgrade options available to me. I was wondering whether I can expect its price to drop even further with the release of AMD's new Polaris GPUs later this year, and if it does, how much can I expect it to drop by? Thank you for your time. Regards, Aereldor.
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Hello guys! I am planning a PC build. Here is the current build: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/DJMasHuo007/saved/#view=YLFzK8 I am struggling with the gpu choice. My idea is that when Pascal and Polaris comes out, I will wait 2 weeks than i am going to buy a 980Ti just beacouse it will have dropped in price by then. Which 980ti do you recommend? IMO it will cost about 470-500usd without any special offers. Do you think this is a good idea? Keep in mind it is an ITX build. Thank you for all of the answers! Have a nice day!
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They will both be coming out soon!!! As far as I have seen, Pascal is winning! Who do you think is winning in terms of leaks/rumors and who do you think will be worth buying in the next couple of months?!
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Hello all i wanted to post here with the same stupid questions as everyone else currently BestBuy is selling the reference GTX 970 for only 304.99USD i have been using an r9 280x for the past year but sadly my cooler broke and the fans died so now its on life support zip tied to case fans and honestly its not doing everything i expect it to do now and even sagging yikes! Locally they seem to be going fast most likely a re seller but i was wondering if that deal seemed good enough to not wait for polaris or pascal since i don't really want to go without using my pc to its max potential and honestly i feel like having a gtx 970 just makes it more likely to have support until steam hardware surveys at least don't show it as the most popular. i would have bought a second hand 970 but everyone on Craigslist was flaky so id rather get my however long warranty out of the box. Thanks i appreciate your opinions and factual statments
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source: http://ir.amd.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=74093&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2159398 via: http://videocardz.com/59248/amd-officially-confirms-polaris-10-and-polaris-11-market-positioning AMD let slip something really interesting during their Q1 2016 earnings call: what mainstream means?! well .. you're not going to like it - it's about the performance level of a R9 260X or a R7 360X I've called it! the information leaked about Polaris 10 was not encouraging at all - AMD is out of their minds if the spearhead of their new generation GPUs are low end and mid range brackets and the performance bracket for Polaris 11 looks even worse, as it targets specifically the notebook market - meaning it's at the level of R7 240
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So I did not pay attention to GPUs for the last 3 years, I'm deciding to buy a new GPU after the release of Pascal and Polaris. But because I've been so long "out of the game" I'm unsure if there are still any benefits to nVidia over AMD. And wanted to see 'non fanboy' opinion on the new generation. Basically I'd like to form an opinion about what should I look forward to in next 2-3 months. Thanks
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Both these companies will launch their latest architecture based graphics card in couple of months. However as of now AMD is leading in Direct-X 12 performance where as Nvidia is lagging. Also AMD achieving significant performance gain using Async compute. So, the future of AMD looks better than Nvidia I guess. What you guys thinks about this? Which 1 will be the better buy out of these?
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So I was looking to get the GTX 970 mini Gigabyte but with Polaris and Pascal around the corner (June-ish)I've decided to wait. However, with specs leaks of the GTX 1070 and 1080 not using HBM 2.0 but rather GDDR5 or GDDR5X, do you guys think that we will see a mitx sized GPU at launch? Something that is similar in size as the mini GTX 970 and 960s from the like of Asus and gigabyte or the R9 Nano?
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So these types of threads are bound to pop up a fair amount while we are all (im)patiently waiting for Polaris and Pascal, to see availability in stores and having some much needed information from reviewers (hoping Linus gets review samples asap). Okay, here's what's going on for me and how I've thought it out. I need a new GPU, last one died on me but even if it didn't go poof-da it would of been high time for an upgrade anyways (HD7870). I'm using a ASUS MG279Q 2560x1440 144Hz monitor so I'm wanting a top end card for high frame rates with pushing that resolution & refresh rate. Information is key big time, specially this time around with new architecture and a process node shrink + other features vs the usual "oh slightly better, a bit more fps 10-20% over last year meh" type deal. I was really hoping to get more information from AMD's capsaicin event to get a better picture over all, but of-course were left with playing a guessing game until an official launch date is made and reviewers get cards/NDA's lifted to actually find out the much needed info we all need & want. So naturally I'm wondering: "how much better is Polaris going to be?" "which cards will we actually see this summer as part of their launch and which ones will come later?" "What about HBM?" etc. What we did get from the capsaicin event is that the Polaris cards wont be using HBM2, so that means GDDR5/X and probably 4 & 8GB cards depending on which one R7/R9 470/480/490 etc. We also got them showing off a system using what they said is their enthusiast Polaris card running Hitman in DX12 mode at 2560x1440 doing a constant 60fps (locked at 60), however we don't know if that was maxed out settings and if it was how much more fps would of it gotten beyond the 60fps lock? By comparison the Fury X is doing 67fps at those settings (would imagine that it should get better with driver updates). So with this its a safe guess to say yes their top Polaris will be better then the Fury X but by how much? and is it worth the wait? What about the others as you trickle down the line shying away from the most expensive card? We don't know this and it makes our purchasing decision annoying to say the least. I was also hoping that with them finally releasing the Radeon Pro Duo and giving Polaris information it might of lead to the Fury X price going down a bit (yeah wishful thinking). At the earliest we will see retail units in stores is by June so 3 months, but when you account for possible delays, and hey lets face it, it happens often in the video card industry so that shouldn't be a shocker. Plus the inevitable wait for the add-in board partners to release them with custom coolers and not stock reference ones & supply and demand stock issues. Well then.. that actually is more like a 4-6 month window if you think about it. So what's going through my head is that I can wait anywhere between 3-6 more months to get the top of the line Polaris which should be better then the Fury X for the same price. Or save a bit of money by getting the 2nd or even 3rd best Polaris which I would guess will be on par or slightly below what the Fury X can do(totally guessing here). Or say piss on it and just enjoy a Fury X now. All the while keeping in mind that I don't have a working GPU atm and there for cringe at the thought of waiting up to 6 months, hell even 4. Oh and of-course with Polaris once officially out making prices on the R9 300 and Fury series get a price cut adding more options to the table. /discuss
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I am updating this as fast as I can now scroll to the bottom for news. Source: http://wccftech.com/amd-rtg-ama-3-march-polaris-fury-x2/ We've been seeing a lot of teases of the fury x2 recently, and there have been a couple spots of Polaris on Zauba as well as other places. Unfortunately, though, we haven't really gotten to learn much about Polaris and the furyx2. Well, tomorrow we may finally learn some more information about em. As you can see, tomorrow RTG will be hosting an AMA on Reddit, and will be answering (nearly) all of your dying questions about the Furyx2, Polaris, Dx12, VR, GPUOpen, and anything else you can think of related to GPUs. Unfortunately, they won't be talking about Zen, but that was probably expected since its RTG we're talking about, not the whole of AMD. Tomorrow could be the day we learn more about everything we already know about, and perhaps find out about a few new things. I hope this AMA will help us glean some more info about RTG's upcoming products and future plans. I will keep this thread updated with new info as it comes out . [UPDATING LIVE UPDATED] Last updated: March 3rd 5:00 p.m. Central Time Info we know: Polaris will have DP 1.3 Apparently Polaris will launch during "mid-year" It seems that AMD will publish a lot of info about Polaris before the launch AMD is looking into the one GPU per eye thing for VR AMD is making drivers for Linux True Audio is still used in the console space, but on desktop it's kinda dying There will be another AMA for Polaris once its details are all ready Polaris support h.265 decode and can decode up to 4k Polaris will only be 14nm Glofo Polaris is projected to have 2x performance per watt to "existing hardware" That's all for now folks! I'll keep updating it. Unfortunately, it doesn't look we'll learn too much about the Fury X2 or extreme details of Polaris. Unfortunately, guys, it doesn't seem like we got as much info as we wish we did. He did, however, mention that as we get closer to the Polaris release time he will do another AMA to clear up a bit on architectural details. That will probably be the time when we really learn something. I was excited for this, but it wasn't QUITE as good as I hoped for. Then again I was only hoping. Thanks guys!
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Source: http://wccftech.com/amd-14nm-finfet-polaris-gpu-c91101/ A brand new Polaris GPU has been spotted- but it's not on Zauba. This time, the GPU has been spotted on South Korea's RRA's public domains. The RRA certification is basically a certification that all ASICs need to go through. However, South Korea publishes all of them publicly. However, this board has not been spotted on Zauba before. Perhaps we missed it. However, all AMD GPUs have a certain code name which lets us easily spot them. I'm not sure this is big Polaris, but it's obviously some sort of Polaris. I guess only time will tell what it really is.
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Let's start a discussion of what is known about the GPUs and how you think they will perform based upon the information already present, more and more is coming out each day so keeping up can be hard!
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source: http://techfrag.com/2016/02/24/amd-polaris-11-may-have-8-6-billion-transistors-launching-mid-year/ AMD seems to have gone to twitter teasing Polaris again It seems that Chris Hook could be saying Polaris has 8.6 billion transistors. However, I personally feel the 16 million part might also be a bit of a hint. Perhaps Polaris 10 has 8.6 billion and 11 has 16 billion? As well, they seem to be talking about hot and spicy stuff, which could either be just confirming that Polaris is really efficient or could mean AMD is planning on releasing an extremely powerful version of Polaris. I personally am not sure what this all means. Tell me your thoughts!
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Source: http://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-r9-400-gpus/ So it seems Polaris low end has been spotted These all have old code names so it is certain to be the 400 series. All but one are worth about 150 usd. They all seem to contain 2 gb gddr5 ram. Oddly though the last is listed around 600 usd. As well, the others say that they contain GDDR5 while this one doesn't. Strange. HBM or GDDR5X? However it is only 4gb, that doesn't seem right for a 600 usd card? Then again these aren't official. We've seen weird prices on early version before. It could be the 232 mm^2 card we've been seeing lately. However, it'd be strange if it really was 600 usd. I would place its value (if it had HBM) at something more like 300-400 USD. This is interesting, seems to match with AMDs recent teasers. Perhaps they might even launch Polaris at the GDC conference.
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I found this http://www.game-debate.com/hardware/?gid=3493&graphics=Radeon%20R9%20490X%208GB and it seems to have listings for the r9 490x's specs. I'm pretty sure its fake, but I want to hear you guys' ideas. If its believable (I don't think it is) then it has 6144 stream processors, 50% more than the Fury X. That seems decent, except I think it's fake.
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Sources: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3035263/hardware/with-the-flex-4-lenovo-unites-intel-core-i7-and-amd-graphics-in-a-360-degree-laptop.html and http://wccftech.com/amd-radeon-400-series-gpus-start-selling-april/ Many of you may have seen the new laptops Lenovo announced at MWC. However, if you were careful you may have noticed that the GPUs are the m5 430 and the r7 m460. Wait, those are the 400 series! Not the 300 series. And those aren't out yet! Yup, it seems like Polaris GPUs are gonna be in these laptops. But Polaris isn't even released yet! Unfortunately more details about the upcoming GPUs in the laptops aren't available. These laptops will be shipping in July though. Chances are Polaris will be unveiled before then. Perhaps it will be out as early as April! It seems AMD is quite a bit ahead of Nvidia if laptops with em are already coming!
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What architecture/brand should I go with to finish my build this summer, currently using a10 apu and its graphics are good but I want better.
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I am looking to upgrade when the new cards come out. I have an amazing MSI motherboard, an i7-5820K which I don't plan on changing anytime soon, and I have 32 GBs of DDR4 memory clocked at the lowest speed (I'm going to water cool it all soon but haven't done so yet). I want a card that's going to last me a while so I was going for a Titan, Fury, or other flagship. I was hoping for at least 8 GBs of video memory (HBM). im rambling so here are my actual questions: Which card is going to come out first? Pascal, Polaris, or Fury X2? Which card is going to give the best performance for the money? Which will give the best actual performance, especially once watercooled? Do you think waiting for the price of 980 ti's is a ether price to performance stunt?
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Will my power supply be able to handle this graphics card?
DAGGER51 posted a topic in Power Supplies
Hell LTT forums, I've recently purchased some components for an upcoming build, one of which was an EVGA 850 watt GQ power supply. I've been planning what graphics card I should buy with the money I have, and I found this - the Powercolor Radeon R9 390X2 Devil 13. Since it barely fits into my budget (even though I know one graphics card will be perfectly fine for years), I was wondering if my power supply would legitimately be able to handle, effectively, an R9 390 Crossfire? Also keep in mind I plan on running an Intel Core i7-5820K overclocked, so would I need to plan on something on the Skylake platform instead? In addition, most of the numbers I've seen on dual R9 390 systems are total system power draw from the wall, maxing out at around 800 watts, which is fine considering that is the number being drawn from the wall. Thanks, DAGGER51 -
Bought this baby like 2years ago, didn't know much at the time so mostly asked advice from relatives/the shop i bought it from. i7 4790 stock cooling mobo: gigabyte z87 psu: coolermaster thunder m 620w storage: 1tb seagate barracuda, 128gb 840evo ssd. So my question is how will the system hold up for pascal and polaris. with their low power consumption will my psu be enough?
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There seems to be a big split in the PC community about waiting for Pascal/Polaris to upgrade your GPU. Some people say that if you wait for the next big thing, you'll always be waiting. Or that developers wont even implement the new features anyway. At least those are the common arguments of naysayers. Personally, I am on the side of waiting (for pascal). But for me, Pascal is special case. I wouldn't wait for the next line of GPUs if they weren't making such a large generational shift. I think people aren't taking this into account. This is the first time in a while (I can't remember since when) that they're changing the manometer process the chips are produced at. This means more power in the same amount of space. Also these cards will feature a new type of VRAM, HBM. While the change might not be monumental, it's going to be better than the DDR5 we've been stuck with forever. Also I hear rumors about GDDRX coming to newer cards as well. While I think that these new cards wont push the best titles at 4k 144hz yet, I do think a 1070 (guessing the name, but I aim for a 970 tier card with HBM) Pascal card will run (my) 1080p at super ultra 666sex FPS at 1 BILLION Hertz maximum refresh rates all the babes will love. What do you think? Is this generation special and worth waiting for? Or is no generation worth waiting for?
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I have an old GTX 770 with 2 GBs that is really starting to lag behind. I have been waiting to upgrade for a while. I thought about moving to a 980 ti but with the bottlenecking at 1500MHz that GM100 cards have I didn't want to invest in a product that is already stretched to it's limit. I game at 1440p60 and I am hoping to get into VR later on. I also stream, edit videos, and plenty of other tasks that take a lot of power. I have an i7-5820K as well as 32 GBs of DDR4 in my build currently so I shouldn't see any bottle-necking with any card. I have a 1000 watt PS so I have plenty of room for upgrade. I really am starting to see some diminished performance and I was looking for an upgrade but I also expected Pascal and Polaris to come out earlier but from what I have seen they are going to be a while so I want something that can tied me over or just last. Keep in mind that if I plan on using the card for a long time I want to watercool it so I think that takes the 380X out already. Thoughts?
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Hey, am thinking of buying a 980ti for gaming in a couple of months. I heard that nvidia is gonna launch new gpus in 2016.So should i wait for their pascal line or is 980ti still worth is for 4k ultra gaming. And dont mind going for the red team, Amd. Suggest me a gpu at the price range of 980ti. In my place 980 ti costs 1 k. And.. Is it worth for 1k.Thank you for your replies.