Quote Originally Posted by JF-AMD View Post
All of this talk about engineering samples is really annnoying because they are not designed around performance. So trying to measure something for performance when it is designed for validation is really pointless.
One could say it is more annoying that AMD isn't doing anything to quash the results of ES, if the ES samples are so bad performance wise.
People want info, and AMD isn't giving it to them, so, they get hard numbers from ES, and think that is the best AMD can do.

Marketing 101, if you see your #1 product getting butchered, it is time to trickle out more info to combat the misinformation on the purpose of ES samples.
It would also be nice to know what the current stepping of BD is, compared to the ES samples.