Wednesday, May 11th 2016
Radeon AIB Partners "Frustrated" at AMD
Troubles mount for AMD as its Radeon add-in board (AIB) partners have reportedly expressed frustration at the company's lack of competition for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 graphics cards, and the timing of the company's May 26 unveiling of its Polaris 10 graphics card, which could be missing in action at the 2016 Computex expo. NVIDIA recently launched its GeForce GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 graphics cards, which are impressive on paper, with timely market availability by May 27 (for GTX 1080) and June 10 (for GTX 1070).
AMD hasn't launched a new performance-segment GPU since 2012. The company has been continuously re-branding its big high-end chips as performance-segment chips of future generations, which inevitably lose out on performance/Watt against NVIDIA, which has been launching new performance-segment chips since the GeForce "Kepler" architecture. AMD reportedly hasn't shared any strategy to counter the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 with its partners, nor has it named a successor to its R9 Fury series. It is, however, pacifying partners with good price-performance gains for its upcoming "Polaris" chips, which should help it win key mid-range and the lower-end of the performance-segment.
Source:
NordicHardware
AMD hasn't launched a new performance-segment GPU since 2012. The company has been continuously re-branding its big high-end chips as performance-segment chips of future generations, which inevitably lose out on performance/Watt against NVIDIA, which has been launching new performance-segment chips since the GeForce "Kepler" architecture. AMD reportedly hasn't shared any strategy to counter the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 with its partners, nor has it named a successor to its R9 Fury series. It is, however, pacifying partners with good price-performance gains for its upcoming "Polaris" chips, which should help it win key mid-range and the lower-end of the performance-segment.
91 Comments on Radeon AIB Partners "Frustrated" at AMD
MSI and GIGA and ASUS sell both AMD\nVidia so they make sales either way, how ever XFX and Sapphire are AMD only AIB's.
(it also does not help Intel did that price fixing scheme thing for which they were punished because indeed many people who just use pc's for simple things would be perfectly fine with AMD cpus which would mean a good income for them)
Anyway, I to am hoping for good things with Zen and then people will jump on it as a sign of support if they are going for an update, I currently have an Intel 2600k and its fine but if Zen is good, I just want to jump on it, my inner nerd commands it!.I dont get it, we are falling into nomenclature here more then anything.
We also call a Honda S2000 a performance car, even though it obviously would do poorly against something like a Mclaren P1.
The performance segment is indeed the r9 380 cards, beyond that is what we would call high end. and maybe super high end or something.
So they threw those designs away. They fired all the people that could have designed more. They figured people would prefer to have the older architectures because too much performance could just make them want more in the future.
"Too much is too much," one executive said. "Let's just keep making the same old product for years and years and give the people a change in the name only. It'll help them feel better about the whole thing."
Even as nVidia keeps releasing new architectures and improvements to go with their new branding, AMD stuck to their guns. They knew better than nVidia how to sell some video cards.
"People don't want new products. They just want new names!"
AMD has not competed properly in awhile. When your x9x card competes against your opponents x7x card, you've done goofed. AMD needs to start competing again, and polaris is a step in the right direction. Whether or not it will be enough s the question.
"I want AMD to succeed in the GPU market, as much as needed so I can buy cheaper Nvidia GPUs that will still be superior to AMD's so I can laugh at AMD GPU owners."
"I want AMD to be a successful company, with zero income".
Where is AMD competing properly against intel? Unless zen is a massive success, AMD CPUs will never compete against intel again.
Right now, the gap is only growing larger. Every month AMD relies on its old chips is another month intel gains market-share. You cant claim the gap is shrinking based on a product that doesnt currently exist on the market. How do you know zen wont turn out to be another bulldozer? AMD made many claims that those chips were much faster than the phenom II chips, and look how that turned out.
You can't just trust AMD is going to hit it out of the park with zen, not after repeatedly failing with bulldozer. And this is assuming that zen is not delayed at all. AMD has a long history of delaying chips. just look at kaveri, the 45 watt chips came out 10 months late. we still havent seen a new FX chip in years, fury pro duo was delayed to the point of being useless, ece.
What a bunch of totally senseless and meaningless terminology. Doesn't mean a god damn thing. None of it.
broke ass-segment
dumbass-segment
wannabe poseur-segment
brain in their head-segment
waste of money-segment
pretentious asshole-segment
get a real life-segment
call a psychiatrist-segment
I had Fx before i move to skylake
We all HOPE the gap closes, and rumor has it, they will reach Haswell levels. Still behind, but WAY better.. IF it is true. AMD is a hype machine though, so, I wouldn't hold my breath.
It's just more cheap BS like what's been on this site over and over. I've consider of walking, however I'd rather not let this use of Bully Pulpit not have some checks and balances.