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so apparently the new 1080 Card has double the performance at 1/2 the cost.
win win
So does AMD’s R9 Fury, matching the 1080 at ~8TFLOP/s and ~US$600, with less RAM, but more bandwidth; less CUDA, more OpenCL.
It’s very difficult to go wrong with a GPU these days. It’s a pity we’re still stuck with programs that have no idea how to use them properly, though.
NVidia and AMD alike are throwing high-performance libraries around like candy, and what are Autodesk doing? Yet another utterly half-assed CPU raytracer, and yet another half-assed game engine nobody will ever use.