Am I right, that first quarter of next year seems like a good

the generation after that will be faster

Neither Zen nor Vega will be out in Q1 2017.
Try Q4

Kaby is a very small improvement over Skylake.
>AMD
lol

>>57370613
Both are supposed to launch early 2017.
>>57370618
AMD started this year with low-mid end GPU market, and Vega should introduce a high-end one (with 4096 ALUs, HBM2 memory and 12 theoretical TFLOPS).

>>57370715
how do they measure the TFLOPS? Just running OpenCL benchmarks?
Also what would be better for OpenCL computation? nVidia or AMD?

>>57371172
>how do they measure the TFLOPS? Just running OpenCL benchmarks?
Theoretical FLOPS is a bullshit figure GPU manufacturers use, basically it's amount of FLOPS you could achieve if all ALUs were constantly doing FMA.
>Also what would be better for OpenCL computation? nVidia or AMD?
From what I've found so far, AMD is a clear winner here.

>>57371202
why would AMD come out above nVidia? Its seemed to me that nVidia has been more worked into aspects of Computerland (namely CUDA Acceleration)
Im getting a 780TI for $185 to hopefully pit against my R9 290X in order to compare not only the gaming performance but also the computational power (HASH and otherwise)

What could you recommend as a good OpenCL program to run? Or where to learn how to program in OpenCL

>>57371256
Nvidia was a pioneer in GPGPU and CUDA existed before OpenCL, but nowadays and since a long time, AMD beats NVIDIA at GPGPU, at least when it comes to consumer hardware (so not NVIDIA TESLA line).
>What could you recommend as a good OpenCL program to run?
Depends what you want to do?
E.g. with https://github.com/meriken/merikens-tripcode-engine-v3 you can mine a nice trip.
>Or where to learn how to program in OpenCL
I have no idea, perhaps https://developer.nvidia.com/opencl and http://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks/opencl-zone/