06-07-2015, 08:52 AM
Let's see what we have:
1. AMD claimed that the upcoming Fiji GPU will not be a Titan X killer (direct competitor), but rather have a good performance/$ ratio (they didn't mention compute, so I assume it's about games).
2. High-end red GPUs are hot. Two headed engineering abominations are furnaces, which cannot be utilized fully with stock coolers. Green high-end cards are alright, living up the name.
3. ATI driver development team enjoy adding bugs into drivers, ask Atom how many times he had to add workarounds. Green drivers are better, though not ideal.
4. In the last year(s), Nvidia has been improving in compute, enough to finally beat AMD in integer performance per GPU, probably per Watt or $ too, so AMD no longer holds the crown.
So, yeah, unless you're a fanboy, green is the new black.
1. AMD claimed that the upcoming Fiji GPU will not be a Titan X killer (direct competitor), but rather have a good performance/$ ratio (they didn't mention compute, so I assume it's about games).
2. High-end red GPUs are hot. Two headed engineering abominations are furnaces, which cannot be utilized fully with stock coolers. Green high-end cards are alright, living up the name.
3. ATI driver development team enjoy adding bugs into drivers, ask Atom how many times he had to add workarounds. Green drivers are better, though not ideal.
4. In the last year(s), Nvidia has been improving in compute, enough to finally beat AMD in integer performance per GPU, probably per Watt or $ too, so AMD no longer holds the crown.
So, yeah, unless you're a fanboy, green is the new black.