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2016 graphics cards on the market, of course, belonged to Nvidia, though AMD did not remain passive. In may, Nvidia introduced the GeForce GTX 1080 GTX 1070. In both, the company applied its another very good architecture, this time with the name Pascal, in the form of models produced in 16-nanometer FinFET lithography. GeForce GTX 1080 has no trouble with radeon R9 X, and won it from the standpoint of both productivity and energy consumption. Fury X were protected only lower price, but Nvidia was because after GTX-1080 em gone GeForce GTX 1070, which is still kept large (average 20%) advantage over the powerful Radeonem, but it was already much cheaper.
it’s Hard not to also mention the GeForce GTX 1080 GTX 1070, and other versions for laptops. This year, Nvidia tried so hard to fulfill last year’s promises about the performance of the cards fixed in the laptop. Based on the architecture of Pascal GeForce’s for laptops have the same or almost the same settings as immobile men. When it comes to computers, achievement Nvidia can safely be considered one of the largest in 2016. Very high performance for portable standards, of course, necessary, but Nvidia has taken care of that was available and laptops with more Pascalami.
As we mentioned, AMD was not in 2016 passive. Also, the company unveiled its new architecture, Polaris. It was applied in processors produced in lithography 14-nanometer FinFET. At the end of June appeared Radeon RX 480, but it was not the start, which can be unambiguously determined. New lithography did not help him to do anything special to beat, in terms of energy consumption, even compared to cards of the previous generation (GeForce GTX 970 and 980, Radeon R9 390(X)), even though the performance was most satisfactory, provided that the prospective user knows what to expect. The economy was in the beginning, at least, is good, but just a few days later, the market tests and the recommended price was too high, and Nvidia, at that time reduced the price of GeForce GTX 970. So we have card with performance close to the performance of the GTX-970, but more łakomą on current and more.
In early August, AMD has hit the second time, and this time came out much better. Radeon RX 470 was much better for the price and from the point of view of profitability left the GeForce GTX 970 in enough. It is difficult, however, not to mention that Radeon RX 480 according to the testers violated the PCI Express specification: consume too much power from the slot. The tests 480 Radeon RX needed from 86 to 90, wherein the specification defines that the PCI Express ×16 can provide up to 75 watts AMD issued in response to the driver that reprogramuje voltage regulator Radeon RX 480, so as to transfer the load from slot to slot for more power (PEG).
In the lower price segment, have fight card: GeForce GTX 1050, the GTX 1050 Ti and Radeon RX 460. GeForce GTX 1050 win Radeon RX 460 (we’re talking about maps 2-gigabajtowych) from the point of view of economic efficiency. For this second version 4-gigabajtowej problem was also GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, although here the difference in effectiveness was less.
2016 was in many ways obviously good for Nvidia, but you can’t miss the fact that in the past 12 months AMD odzyskiwało gradually lost market share, most dramatically-looking fall in the history that happened in 2015. It was not until the end of the third quarter. The results for the last quarter will probably, very soon, and then we know that AMD has maintained this trend till the end.
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