AMD is gonna kick some nVidia *** in Q3 lol, at least in terms of value. Fight!
What are you basing that on ? Or are you attempting to start a flamefest ?
AMD are on record as saying that Tahiti will remain the primary focus of their high-end graphics through the remainder of the year*, so whatever AMD's response is (and they seem to have shelved a Sea Islands successor) it likely boils down to either offering a larger/more varied bundle - which has a certain appeal, although limited when you can buy the game coupons on eBay for cents on the dollar, or further price cuts.
Now, bear in mind that AMD have instituted two price cuts since the HD 7000 launch
(April and
August) as well as adding game bundles, while Nvidia prices have held steady on pricing with the customer lucky to get a single game coupon- yet AMD continues to lose discrete graphics market share to Nvidia. Are you expecting AMD to come up with some other tactic ?
As far as I'm aware, AMDs primary focus is reclaiming its lost mobile graphics share (which has taken a nosedive of late). They seem to have shelved the Sea Islands high-end, and move to implement (along with Nvidia's Maxwell µarch) 20nm process technology likely combined with GDDR6 (since it is a subset of DDR4) to increase bandwidth whilst keeping the GPU die -memory controllers- real estate at manageable levels (256 or 384-bit).
Both TSMC's 20nm process and GDDR6 look to be Q1 2014 timeframe, so I hope you aren't expecting too much from AMD's design team.
AMD have made reference to "special announcements" at Computex, but given the dearth of valid information/ AMD sanctioned "leaks" concerning Sea Islands' fast disappearing Curacao GPU, I don't think a new µarch will be unveiled anytime soon - although I'm certain a slide deck will be circulated.
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From AMD's Devon Nekechuk and pals
The plan has always been to keep our 7900 series as the mainstay of our enthusiast product line from when we launched at the end of 2011 to the last part of 2013. So this was definitely an intentional plan....[ ]...
Darren McPhee: [pause] The 7900 series will be a focus for the rest of 2013.
Like the 670 there will be 4GB VRAM versions for $50 more or so. 2GB is enough for 1440p/1600p and below. (for the most part anyways)
One thing from the conclusion on Toms Review caught my eye though.
AMD is STILL having frame time issues in that many titles? Looks like that might include single GPU's as well?
The issues of stuttering with Bioshock Infinite and Far Cry 3 don't appear to be frame pacing issues in the usually applied sense, more issues with non-memory management within the GCN architecture that haven't been ironed out - as I understand it. I was under the impression that Bioshock had gotten better with driver updates.