There is so much negativity and (as the Germans would say) schadenfreude both here and elsewhere, so people don't want a third player in the GPU market?
I really hope Intel are not dragging their heels, hoping they can patch up drivers and people will overlook the shortcomings. Once AMD and Nvidia launches their next gen, these will only look weaker. So assuming there is no yield issue (defective dies etc.), and I expect them to have several hundred thousands of these ready, they should do the following:
Change course and rebrand these as "Arc Alchemist
BETA", slash the price in two, and be upfront with this being an "unpolished" product. This would change the public opinion on these inferior products and turn it into something positive. The alternative would probably sell these for cheap to OEMs, which doesn't sound more profitable anyways.
and Vega 56 atleast was a superior price/performance card compared to Nvidia's equivalent, yes the 64 was not worth what they asked sure but the 56 was a fine option.
so I never understood or understand this retroactive negativity it gets.
What? Vega 56/64 was a "disaster" for AMD. While Vega 56 slightly outperformed GTX 1070 and Vega 64 matched GTX 1080, they had many problems;
- Vega 56 cost $500 and Vega 64 $700 at launch (with that $100 game bundle gimmick, and liquid cooler for Vega 64), compared to $380 for GTX 1070 and $500 for GTX 1080 (and the Nvidia cards were even obtainable below MSRP). AMD eventually released them without the game bundle at $400/$500, but those were very hard to find. And even then, GTX 1070/1080 still had a better price/performance ratio.
- The power draw were horrible.
- These cards were really hard to find, AMD didn't make many of them as HBM was in short supply and very overpriced, resulting in AMD not earning much on these.
Edit: Typo