Quote Originally Posted by marten_larsson View Post
How is AMD's not even announced 8000-series known to be closer to a refresh of GCN than Kepler is to Fermi? I thought Fermi was the new architecture and what we'll see from Nvidia will be upgrades of that arch but nothing revolutionary like GT200/300 - GF100.
The post you replied to makes me really wonder how many posters are actually plants by marketing teams trying to divert attention from a competitors' product. But then again, there will always be someone who is "disappointed" or "waiting".

The fact of the matter is that AMD's next generation parts are nowhere near release. Think more along the lines of 2013 considering Tahiti refreshes haven't even taped out yet, let alone a move towards a more advanced architecture.

In addition, I think people have to be clear about one thing and I've been saying this from the start: The first generation of high end GCN parts were never meant to compete against Kepler. They were originally slated to be fabricated at 32nm and be a a direct competitor to NVIDIA's refreshed Fermi cards (GTX 580, GTX 570, etc.). Their performance results pretty much back this up as well.

IF (and that is a big IF) NVIDIA has designed Kepler to be a real step up from Fermi then AMD's current generation doesn't stand a chance in the high end market. On the other hand, AMD has proven that they can compete on price and all of their HD 7000-series (particularly in the $200+ price brackets) have more than enough padding to endure cuts of 10% or slightly higher.