Sorry for such a long hiatus. I've been busy.
Anyways, AMD as of yesterday, has announced an possibly disruptive entry in the industry. A new GPU based on their new Polaris architecture, which uses a 14nm FinFET that lowers manufacturing cost, reduces energy usage and improves performance.
The RX 480.
AMD claims that the performance is on par with NVIDIA's GTX 980 and their own R9 390X. Two cards in crossfire actually outperform NVIDIA's recently released GTX 1080 in Ashe's Of Singularity, which is an impressive feat.
And the real kicker is the price.
~$200 for a single card. A SINGLE card.
A $200 dollar card that can outperform their competitors card for half the price. That's utterly insane if the performance is what AMD claims. Additionally, there might be a chance for even slightly higher-end cards like a possible 480X, 480X2, 490, 490X, 490X2 (speculation).
This could very well be a changing point in the industry if what AMD claims is true. We might actually see some heavy drops in price in NVIDIA's line-up since AMD has ramped up on competition. Not only that, but AMD plans to release it's Vega architecture in October, which, built on the same architecture could be a true competitor to the 1070, 1080 and eventual 1080ti.
The card will release on June 29th, so we shall see how the card actually performs.
