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Originally Posted by VSG
Pascal was advertised at 2x performance/Watt compared to Maxwell, and that's not related to what game developers can extract either. The 16nm node brings a TDP decrease so the power consumption will be lower. The performance with the smaller die coming this year won't be 2x that of the GTX 980 Ti or the Titan X by any means. Ditto with AMD and Polaris (14 nm) but these are also smaller dies and definitely won't be enough to do 4k gaming. All this before the part where these are discrete GPUs and not APUs which are what will be used.
4k games at lower settings and frame rates won't look great tbh. I would rather they target 1080p, high or 1440p, mid-high and upscale to 4k rather than native 4k.
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It is 2x per watt, but the claims before that were that 'big Pascal' (eg the Titan equivilent) could do 2x the actual performance of the 980ti. NVidia are going to hold that chip back as always, but if AMD can do a similar jump at every price level within the next 2 years, I think it can be done. The APU is still mid-range equivilent; 2xing the current APU would make some (and key word on some) games 4k capable.
it's going to be interesting if it happens. not sure if I'm on board with it or not in terms of purchasing, but going to be fun to track.