Hello. I don't post here a lot mostly because I lurk and don't really have much to say. I don't understand everything and don't want to confuse or offend anyone by pretending I do. I mostly just try to learn and many of you here have been very helpful in that way. So, first off, I just want to say thank you to the people making recommendations and talking about technology in ways that is easy to understand. It can be really confusing even as a diehard PC gamer.
Now I have a question since 2016 is here and the anticipated 16 and 14nm GPUs are here with it. With the way people talked about these things before they released, I must admit I expected much better than what we got.
Everything I've been reading says a lot of bad things about where the industry is right now from what I can understand. 16/14nm are apparently very expensive, both Polaris and Pascal (architectures) are apparently not changed much from their predecessors, Vega is still a long way off, and Nvidia are selling their mid-range cards for $700 with only a not-full high-end card at $1200.
I guess my question, or rather the censored version of it, is what exactly is going on? Will prices keep rising and do AMD have plans to do better? I don't understand why AMD's architecture isn't doing much better in performance per clock than it did 5 years ago and I don't understand why people are all of a sudden okay with record-setting prices on Nvidia stuff. I mean, why didn't these companies price things so high sooner if there were always people willing to pay so much?
I guess I'm just frustrated because it seems like affordable 4K GPUs just aren't coming anytime soon and development really isn't interesting anymore. The 1080 is barely any faster than the year-old 980 Ti, yet is also more expensive, while the real 980 Ti replacement this year is selling for $1200 (almost twice!!! the 980 Ti's price). At the same time, new consoles are on the way and will just make it even harder for PC GPUs to keep churning out fast frames in the newest games.
Even with the GTX 1060 and the RX 480, I remember factory-overclocked 290s selling for about the same price that performed almost the same almost 2 years ago. Where are the real improvements in performance affordability?
So, basically, are we screwed? It does kind of feel like it to me.
Now I have a question since 2016 is here and the anticipated 16 and 14nm GPUs are here with it. With the way people talked about these things before they released, I must admit I expected much better than what we got.
Everything I've been reading says a lot of bad things about where the industry is right now from what I can understand. 16/14nm are apparently very expensive, both Polaris and Pascal (architectures) are apparently not changed much from their predecessors, Vega is still a long way off, and Nvidia are selling their mid-range cards for $700 with only a not-full high-end card at $1200.
I guess my question, or rather the censored version of it, is what exactly is going on? Will prices keep rising and do AMD have plans to do better? I don't understand why AMD's architecture isn't doing much better in performance per clock than it did 5 years ago and I don't understand why people are all of a sudden okay with record-setting prices on Nvidia stuff. I mean, why didn't these companies price things so high sooner if there were always people willing to pay so much?
I guess I'm just frustrated because it seems like affordable 4K GPUs just aren't coming anytime soon and development really isn't interesting anymore. The 1080 is barely any faster than the year-old 980 Ti, yet is also more expensive, while the real 980 Ti replacement this year is selling for $1200 (almost twice!!! the 980 Ti's price). At the same time, new consoles are on the way and will just make it even harder for PC GPUs to keep churning out fast frames in the newest games.
Even with the GTX 1060 and the RX 480, I remember factory-overclocked 290s selling for about the same price that performed almost the same almost 2 years ago. Where are the real improvements in performance affordability?
So, basically, are we screwed? It does kind of feel like it to me.