Quote Originally Posted by nossy23 View Post
So, would people be happy with a card from AMD that has a performance level in the neighborhood of a GTX780/Titan? Sure it would be cool to get lower prices, but at the same time it's worrying. This is AMD's big upgrade, their new gen GPU, not just a GPU that is clocked a bit higher with some optimizations. Nvidias next gen will be out in, what, about half a year after AMD releases their new cards? And if Maxwell delivers even half of what is promised, AMD's next gen GPU is toast.
I think AMD are trying to make GPGPU much more important this generation, the 680 and 780 are weak in this area while the 79*0's are strong. For example I said a few months back, that GPU compute was going to become very important:



After seeing this, if Nvidia are going to make a Maxwell with most of it's GPU compute removed it's going to be very vulnerable next year, especially with AMD's developer ties. So it doesn't matter if the benchmarks next month say it's only on par with Titan, what really matters is have AMD got the compute balance right to make all the PS4 and XBOne ports run like silk. Engines built to take advantage of GPU compute might become the future, and for once AMD are holding the reins.