Oh man, I thought the 480x was a bit below GTX 970 levels of performance, but it’s actually closer to a GTX 980! That’s a $500 GPU for $200.
I’m definitely waiting until July to Decide what to get. This has to impact Nvidia card prices, no?
It won’t affect the 1080 - they’re simply not in the same tier and people always pay a premium for the high end. It may affect the 1070 as the value buy, maybe drag it down into the $330 range. But even then I suspect that since Nvidia is releasing their high end stuff much earlier than their mid-end of that range, and ATI is doing the opposite, which is unusual, is that they’ll both rule their price segments. If anything, this will probably speed up the 1060 coming to market.
What about the 900 series. Surely they can’t continue to sell a 980 at $500 now, or after these come out at least.
They’ll be phased out pretty quickly, a few clearance sales, and used prices will drop. They never continue selling the old series for very long after a new one comes out.
How much do GPUs tend to drop in price when the new generation comes on? Will they fall in price in a way that reflects their performance relative to the new generation?
It’s doubtful the RX 480 will be much like the 970. The pixel throughput will likely be significantly lower although the texel throughput should be higher. The memory bandwidth is supposed to be 256GB/s but from what I understand, 256GB/s memory bandwidth on Nvidia isn’t quite the same as 256GB/s memory bandwidth on AMD because of different data compression methods.
I hope AMD starts giving serious competition to Nvidia but haven’t we often seen that hope, whether regarding Intel or Nvidia, come and go?