[News] AMD to announce Vega tonight [Update: Vega Computex Announcement]

[Tim]

Just to clarify:

RX- September launch

FE-Late June

Enthusiast can get FE, sorta like Titan but it is not much slower than RX.

I sure hope that's note remotely correct, RX in September would be pretty disastrous for the market.

[SinOfLiberty]

I sure hope that's note remotely correct, RX in September would be pretty disastrous for the market.

What you mean?

[Tim]

What you mean?

I thought you were making a statement with your post? RX in September? Like you know it's coming in September?

[SinOfLiberty]

I thought you were making a statement with your post? RX in September? Like you know it's coming in September?

Yes. But, disaster on the market. Why did you write that?

[vario]

Yes. But, disaster on the market. Why did you write that?

People tend to exaggerate. For the past like 15 years im reading at least once a month that amd is finished and going to be bankrupt "soon".
Theres not gonna be any disaster because gaming cards are going to be 3 months late. Its not good. But certainly not a disaster.Moreover, even if they didnt sold a single vega 10 to gamers, but sold them only to HPC/PRO market with high margins. This wouldnt be even bad for them.And looking at cryptocurrencies getting a second push, they can be bought by miners, just like 480 580 now, and 290x before.
I would look closer into ryzen in terms how amd is doing, how well its being adopted by the bigger clients. First wave sold well to enthusiasts, but thats not the main market. AMD needs to get into server/hpc/mobile and bulk oem sales.

[Tim]

Yes. But, disaster on the market. Why did you write that?

No competition for a year and four months is certainly not good for the market. In terms of not putting out a competitive product to counter your direct competitor for that long is nothing short but disastrous.

People tend to exaggerate. For the past like 15 years im reading at least once a month that amd is finished and going to be bankrupt "soon".
Theres not gonna be any disaster because gaming cards are going to be 3 months late. Its not good. But certainly not a disaster.Moreover, even if they didnt sold a single vega 10 to gamers, but sold them only to HPC/PRO market with high margins. This wouldnt be even bad for them.And looking at cryptocurrencies getting a second push, they can be bought by miners, just like 480 580 now, and 290x before.
I would look closer into ryzen in terms how amd is doing, how well its being adopted by the bigger clients. First wave sold well to enthusiasts, but thats not the main market. AMD needs to get into server/hpc/mobile and bulk oem sales.

3 months late? Uhm, no. 1080 ruling the market place for a year and four months is nothing but a disaster on behalf of AMD. Of course it won't finish AMD, I'm not daft, but a gap this big has never happened since both companies started producing graphics cards in the mid nineties. That's 22 years of competition between the two camps. Still think I'm exaggerating?

Let's not even have a look at the release date of the Fury X, 24 June 2015, which was a poor card in itself, add the months up, you do the math!

[zanzabar]

3 months late? Uhm, no. 1080 ruling the market place for a year and four months is nothing but a disaster on behalf of AMD. Of course it won't finish AMD, I'm not daft, but a gap this big has never happened since both companies started producing graphics cards in the mid nineties. That's 22 years of competition between the two camps. Still think I'm exaggerating?

Let's not even have a look at the release date of the Fury X, 24 June 2015, which was a poor card in itself, add the months up, you do the math!

the fury pro is still technically the fastest card, that counts for amd sales domination, right

[vario]

No competition for a year and four months is certainly not good for the market. In terms of not putting out a competitive product to counter your direct competitor for that long is nothing short but disastrous.



3 months late? Uhm, no. 1080 ruling the market place for a year and four months is nothing but a disaster on behalf of AMD. Of course it won't finish AMD, I'm not daft, but a gap this big has never happened since both companies started producing graphics cards in the mid nineties. That's 22 years of competition between the two camps. Still think I'm exaggerating?

Let's not even have a look at the release date of the Fury X, 24 June 2015, which was a poor card in itself, add the months up, you do the math!

AMD/ATI not always had the big chip big card competition so its not really new. As for the amount of being late, im referring to official amd info , it was SUPPOSED to come out in december lat year, but only recently they announced official date that its before Q2 ends, and from that time to actual availability of gaming cards its gonna be round 3 months it looks. Yes, it SHOULD come out with 1080, but that was impossible with the decisions they made beforehand.
I dont think they were always competing in the same manner for the 22 years you mention, there were flops along the way.Fury maxx , 2900XT for example.
And given that biggest volta is gonna be 800mm2. Theres not gonna be single chip competition this or next year also.