Something we haven’t seen a lot of this year has been price cuts. Nvidia could also return fire with a dual-GPU monster of its own. Before moving on, AMD will release a dual-GPU version of the Fury X which should become the Fury X2. Thus far, the larger 8GB memory buffer has proven to be of little benefit, so we prefer the cheaper 290s anyway.Īt this point, it looks like AMD and Nvidia have finally squeezed the most out of the 28nm design process. Yes, the Radeon R9 390X and 390 received double the VRAM, but they are essentially the same GCN 1.1 GPUs - 290X and 290, respectively. Some of you are probably shouting that the 390X and 390 are new as well. Nvidia also went the other way, releasing the circa-$250 GTX 950 which sports just 768 CUDA cores.Īll told, Nvidia released four new GPUs in 2015, while AMD delivered eight cards if you’re willing to be loose with the definition of “new” and three if you’re not, namely the Radeon R9 Fury X, Fury and Nano. Last year’s GTX 980 featured 2048 CUDA cores, which now looks underwhelming put against the Titan X’s whopping 3072 CUDA cores, a nice 50 per cent bump for the architecture. While the original story was based on US prices, we think the conclusions made of performance between competing cards is still relevant and interesting. Price estimations were pulled from PCPartPicker, and averaged across any card’s particular price range. Then this year Maxwell did what many thought was impossible: becoming considerably faster.ĪU Editor’s Note: This story has been updated with Australian pricing where possible. The only big highlight last year was the arrival high-end Maxwell GPUs in the form of the GeForce GTX 980 and 970.

You might say 2015 hasn’t been the most exciting year for graphics cards, though in many ways it was more eventful than 2014.

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