14 DAY TRIAL // "You can't put a price on quality. That's why one must wait." This is what the average Nvidia customer thinks when faced with such massive launches in the GPU industry that will come from AMD this summer and autumn.
Fury's arrival this June will ignite the industry as a concept, but unfortunately, it'll be Nvidia that will reap the final benefits by pole-vaulting AMD every time when putting its concepts in practice.
With today's leak that Nvidia is working hard in countering AMD’s only moment of glory in years, with its HBM GPU being the only revolutionary design AMD has brought against its rival for a long time, it's clear that Nvidia, in the end, can and will at least double everything that AMD promises to deliver.
"Good enough" won't cut it
Although the architecture design is impressive and truly creative, hitting the market with only 4GB HBM RAM will overtake GTX 980Ti and Titan X only on micronic levels, and only if the stack memory design will prove extremely energy and thermally efficient. If an F1 racing car analogy is permitted, the HBM upgrade will be like moving on from turbo-supercharged engines of the '80s to lower performance but low-drag, power efficient cars of the ‘90s and noughties.
Sacrificing raw power for more energy efficiency will probably improve your card's performance, but keeping the overall memory low, your competition will immediately strike in that weak spot.
If the rumor that a 32GB Nvidia HBM2 Pascal GPU will come in 2016 is true, AMD will have to resist a heavy blow on its own turf.
HBM tech is new, but against older and higher performance cards like the 980Ti and Titan X, it'll be just "good enough." If a vast upgrade in memory size won't come by Q2 2016, AMDs Furies will be blown to smithereens.
