GTX 980 or Fury X?

[bgi123]

I got some money to burn and would like the best gaming experience possible.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Fury X is better hands down.

 

[babernet_1]

New generation Nividia graphics cards coming out May. New AMD coming out in June. With the new standard DX12, AMD may rule. If you can wait, wait. Otherwise the best board now is the 980ti.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

AMD Polaris desktop cards are most like 2017 according to AMD.

 

[ekagori]

AMD Polaris desktop cards are most like 2017 according to AMD.

Where did you get that from? From all the sites I've been reading, and AMD's roadmap, Polaris launches this year and Vega next year.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-roadmap-hints-three-gpus,31417.html

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Yes Polaris for mobile.

 

[Unolocogringo]

AMD Polaris desktop cards are most like 2017 according to AMD.

Where did you get that from? From all the sites I've been reading, and AMD's roadmap, Polaris launches this year and Vega next year.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-roadmap-hints-three-gpus,31417.html

If you read the article you posted it state that the laptop/notebook version of Polaris will be mid year.
There is nothing on Desktop cards yet.

 

[ekagori]

I quoted that one thinking it was the same as the one posted on OC3D, there is no mention of only notebook gpus on that one.

 

[babernet_1]

http://wccftech.com/amd-launch-polaris-gpus-june/

 

[Outlander_04]

AMD Polaris desktop cards are most like 2017 according to AMD.

None of the talk I have seen limits a Polaris launch to mobile only this year .

Indeed this makes no sense at all since mobile and desktop chips are identical silicon. The difference is always that mobile chips are run at lower voltages and clock speeds to hit lower power targets.
I think you are confusing the 2017 launch of Polaris with HBM [ vega], with the June 2016 launch of Polaris with GDDR5

Do you have a link to share?

 

[turkey3_scratch]

I could have sworn it was on the AMD AMA article on Toms but I guess not.

 

[Outlander_04]

At this time the AMD architecture looks to be superior to nVidia in DX12.
Chances are that means AMD is the smarter buy over the next few years.

But I would wait till June.
LOL I am waiting till June

 

[babernet_1]

At this time the AMD architecture looks to be superior to nVidia in DX12.
Chances are that means AMD is the smarter buy over the next few years.

But I would wait till June.
LOL I am waiting till June

Yes, Nvidia's silence on asynchronous computing for DX12 does not bode well for its upcoming 1080 series. With this and the Zen, apparently 8 cores with multithreading and the same instructions per clock as the Broadwell, 2016 may be the year of AMD's comback!