I just can't see it, Vega at best will come close to the titan X but won't touch the 1080ti and it will be too little too late as by the Volta will be released increasing the performance gap again.
Same old story for AMD always late to the party
I really can't see it being as fast as a 1080Ti. I just can't and never could.
I wouldn't say it's too late either. At the end of the day so long as it comes along at some point and makes even a slight impact it will help. Ryzen took years, but everything has changed since even if most people are still buying Intel CPUs.
Volta is not of interest to me, unless we see a £300/£350 '70 replacement that performs around the same as the 1080Ti. But I can't see that happening either, because like you say I doubt AMD will worry big Pascal, let alone Volta. Well, unless Nvidia crap out and Volta stinks for some reason.
I think I am decided now. No new GPUs for the foreseeable. Graphics are not really improving and TBH weren't really supposed to with DX12. At least we are seeing better performance though, so it's slowly improving.
One thing that is worrying is the cost of HBM. The Fury X would have been an amazing card, if it were £100 cheaper. But AMD could not do that because of the cost, so they are adding superflous features to a card that no one wants and then having to relay that cost onto the consumer. Which is never really a good idea, and probably why Nvidia have not used HBM2 yet.
With it all getting more and more expensive with no real reason or need I think I will just stay put. Game launches have been so poor and against my tastes for a long time so why would I pay hundreds of pounds to play the same games I am not playing now? doesn't make sense.
Raja did make one sound point last night. He said that AMD GPU users compared their cards to fine wine. IE - they improve with age. And every driver AMD launch the more reason I have not even to bother powering up my Titan XM.
