How about we get back to the architecture of Maxwell and stop with all the petty nonsense.
Near to release time architecture takes a back seat as people start weighing off desire to get something spangly and new and cost.
It's actually quite an interesting launch this one, from a none 3D geek perspective as I am rather than you lot.
I've got a 30 inch Dell monitor at 2560x1600 and a 660Ti, so it is suffering rather.... I resisted the 780/780Ti upgrade whilst I waited for the Maxwell top end to come out. I had put in a 750Ti in my families machine which does Minecraft and other low tech stuff, and it was cool, quiet and energy efficient. So I was looking forward to this launch. I'd get more performance by about 30% over 780 series and less power.
But it seems it's not quite as straight forward as that. The pinch of salt initial benches make it not that much better performing than current cards, because nvidia have gone got a completely different set of number of "units" on the card to get to that with a lot less power. Which is interesting. Not what I am used to, gives me more food for thought, especially with 780ti's coming down in price.
So it's going to be fun trying to work out the best path for the upgrade. As well as the difference in processing power or memory bandwidth etc etc factoring in the cost and also the heat/sound/power environmentals will be making even more factors to figure in.
The 980 looks expensive now but the 970 really cheap, but how does the 970 compete with the 780ti which is now £80 cheaper? Er...
The new chip seems like it might be a good overclocker though, so that might sway it that way.
So I am really looking forward to this release on Friday, will get the beers and food in and be prepared to sit down for a long time digesting.
