Aristotelian
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They will compete with Vega. You guys are acting like Polaris is the only thing AMD has. On their Roadmap, Vega falls into Q4 2016 and Q1 2017.
Please do not say "you guys" when quoting one of my posts. On AMD's roadmap, Vega will be competing with the 1080 in 2017, and no - HBM2 parts are not going to be competing with the GDDR5X parts coming out in a few months. I am a consumer, so I'm interested in what's coming out in a few months from the gaming perspective where, unfortunately, I'm not seeing how Polaris will compete (in absolute performance terms) with initial Pascal. I want it to, so I have more choice - that's the consumer's ideal scenario.
But you mentioning Vega? It seems to me that Vega will be going up against larger Pascal offerings next year. The largest Vega against the largest Pascal (Titan, consumer). The second largest Vega against the Ti version. Now, the refresh of AMD's product lineup seems more focused on perf/watt and potentially lower costs, which I don't understand to be easily possible given wafer cost increases that have been posted on these forums. Whereas Nvidia is going more for absolute performance - not focusing as much on perf/watt.
So, no. I am not "one of them" nor am I "in any camp", I want the fastest product I can buy this year given the build I want to do. And my questions are trying to figure out - for prudent planning purposes - where my money is going and how much of it I'm going to need to spend to build the best PC I can in the next few months. I hope that this clarifies the "you guys" comment.