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
The Titan X lets be honest is nothing special, barely better then the GTX980Ti in any games (and most people defend it as being more then a gaming card....) and for that we have Fury/FuryX, (let alone the R9 295X2).
AMD is competing well enough across the board, hell lets check TPU's latest review:
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Gigabyte/GTX_980_Ti_XtremeGaming/7.html
Go through the games and see where the cards are positioned and how far apart they actually are, 2fps? 4fps?
Lets not be blind to simple real world tests/facts here.
following everyone.
AMD dont want to compete with top of the line player like Intel/Nvidia anymore
They just want to follow other.. since they got console. (Nintendo NX, ps4 and Xbox)
AMD just want to follow them..
they look lazy lol
people who think AMD gonna surpass nvidia/Intel in performance/price/watt ratio are crazy.
But i like crazy people.. we need them! (i am one :nutkick:) :toast:
The gap in manufacturing technology between Intel and the rest of the world has diminished so much that if not today, in 1-2 years TSMC and Samsung will be in a position to say that they are ahead of Intel. But for this to have any meaning for AMD, Zen would have to be the processor that will be at least as fast as Haswell in IPC and also clock to 4GHz. Just exaggerating a little, after reading that funny post about, why Tonga is not performance segment GPU.
But your list is much funnier and definitely more accurate :D
The fury x falls short of the 980ti unless you are at 4k, and since most gamers are not at 4k, AMD falls short for a majority of the market. You can try to twist the story with graphs and semantics, but that will not change the fact that AMD has not really competed recently, especially against the highest end maxwell GPUs. And lets not even get into performance per watt here, where AMD is truly abysmal.
AMD needs to compete. They dropped the ball with the 300 series and they know it. They need to actually compete with polaris, none of this (well, its cheaper and performs good enough) BS. They NEED to perform well, on par with nvidia, and they need to do it day 1, not 6 months later one most purchases have been made.
Again, check the stats....
Or ya know, ignore facts and claim bringing them up is "twisting the story".
The funny thing is that with actually facts something can become more then just a story, like ya know, the truth...
Also the double standard remark is specifically aimed at the GTX970 not being at the performance level of the next 4 cards form Nvidia either, yet it sold really well, so it seems logical to compete with that first, yet doing so is now a bad thing?
www.computershopper.com/components/reviews/amd-a10-7870k/(page)/3#review-body
Yea, I'm not seeing why anyone thinks paying 120% more to be like 10% above with a Iris Pro. What you think is "Bang-for-Buck"... the only segment that really means anything!
AMD GPUs are very much competitive. The ONLY case in which they are not equal or better to their nvidia equivalent is with the GTX 950 and the 980 TI.
Apart from that... the R9 380(X) is a better buy to the 960.
The R9 390(X) is a better card than the 970.
The Fury Non X, Nano, and much cheaper R9 390X are better cards than the GTX 980.
The Marketing of Nvidia is better. So is the mindshare I guess. But the AMD cards are good.
380 > 960
390 > 970
390x ~= 980
Fury Nano > 980 (same price)
Fury X ~= 980Ti (from 8% behind on low res, to slightly faster at 4k)
Titanium X is not that far from 980Ti.
If you go multi GPU, it only gets better for AMD.
wccftech.com/amd-radeon-r9-fury-quad-crossfire-nvidia-geforce-gtx-titan-quad-sli-uhd-benchmarks/
Jeez. So much pro nZilla FUD these days.
Currently the World's Fastest GPU is the Radeon Pro Duo.
The R9 Fury X trades blows with the GTX 980 Ti, and beats it on 4K game benchmarks.
AMD competes in the High end rather nicely.
In Future, i would suggest not writing articles based on fabrication, speculation, postulation, rumination, rumors, gossip, hearsay and conjecture.
Be advised you are addressing the Intellectual Gaming Community
ht4u.net/reviews/2015/amd_radeon_r7_370_vs_nvidia_geforce_gtx_950_test/
For a chip/card that is like 3-4 elder in architecture, still smaller, and more often 30% less cost it has held up it's place as in the final index there's like 11% between them. Personally, yes it can be 15-20% depending on the title and settings. Almost like Nvidia wedge the better Boost models in between what a 370 was known and just get near what more pedestrian 960's offered. It was Easy Pick-in's.
Edit: Just saw Guru3D has a MSI R7 370 Gaming review up. First it's odd to not see any 950 power numbers? Some B-M runs are what looks like a reference 950, others call a Palit 950 Storm X Dual edition (1241 MHz Boost). Some B-M don't even have a 950 like Witcher, while honestly for me his setting are a little harsh on 1080p for this level card. But these charts (not hard data) have something's to "glean" from them. Not bad for a card that today is $120 -AR$20, or Heck an Asus STRIX is $115 -AR20.
www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/msi_radeon_r7_370_gaming_2g_review,1.html
Anno 2205
GTX 980 Ti 6GB: 30.9 FPS
R9 Fury X 4GB: 27.5 FPS Nvidia Wins
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GTX_980_Ti_Matrix/6.html
Assassin's Creed Syndicate
GTX 980 Ti 6GB: 38.0 FPS
R9 Fury X 4G: 38.4 FPS AMD Wins
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GTX_980_Ti_Matrix/7.html
Battlefield 3
GTX 980 Ti 6GB: 49.4 FPS
R9 Fury X 4GB: 53.5 FPS AMD Wins
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GTX_980_Ti_Matrix/8.html
Battlefield 4
GTX 980 Ti 6GB: 37.5 FPS
R9 Fury X 4GB: 34.2 FPS Nvidia Wins
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GTX_980_Ti_Matrix/9.html
Batman: Arkham Knight
GTX 980 Ti 6GB: 45.7 FPS
R9 Fury X 4GB: 51.9 FPS AMD Wins
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GTX_980_Ti_Matrix/10.html
Call of Duty: Black Ops III
GTX 980 Ti 6GB: 25.0 FPS
R9 Fury X 4GB: 30.6 FPS AMD Wins
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GTX_980_Ti_Matrix/11.html
Crysis 3
GTX 980 Ti 6GB: 26.7 FPS
R9 Fury X 4GB: 28.9 FPS AMD Wins
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GTX_980_Ti_Matrix/12.html
Fallout 4
GTX 980 Ti 6GB: 45.9 FPS
R9 Fury X 4GB: 47.4 FPS AMD Wins
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GTX_980_Ti_Matrix/13.html
Grand Theft Auto V
GTX 980 Ti 6GB: 33.9 FPS
R9 Fury X 4GB: 35.9 FPS AMD Wins
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GTX_980_Ti_Matrix/14.html
Just Cause 3
GTX 980 Ti 6GB: 36.1 FPS
R9 Fury X 4GB: 34.3 FPS Nvidia Wins
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GTX_980_Ti_Matrix/15.html
Mad Max
GTX 980 Ti 6GB: 48.6 FPS
R9 Fury X 4GB: 50.1 FPS AMD Wins
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GTX_980_Ti_Matrix/16.html
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
GTX 980 Ti 6GB: 41.3 FPS
R9 Fury X 4GB: 36.5 FPS Nvidia Wins
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GTX_980_Ti_Matrix/17.html
Rainbow Six: Siege
GTX 980 Ti 6GB: 46.5 FPS
R9 Fury X 4GB: 50.9 FPS AMD Wins
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GTX_980_Ti_Matrix/18.html
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
GTX 980 Ti 6GB: 25.9 FPS
R9 Fury X 4GB: 26.5 FPS AMD Wins
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GTX_980_Ti_Matrix/19.html
World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor
GTX 980 Ti 6GB: 88.9 FPS
R9 Fury X 4GB: 85.8 FPS Nvidia Wins
www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GTX_980_Ti_Matrix/20.html
TALLY of 15 Games for Reference Cards GTX 980 Ti vs R9 Fury X at 3840x2160
Nvidia = 5
AMD = 10
I think AMD's tactic of going low and midrange first is very smart considering the position they are in. For several months they will actually have superior cards in a broad segment of the market. Not just desktop, but laptops as well. That has to be good for their bottom line.
I wonder if we will see an article about Nvidia's AIB partners complaining about the lack of 16nm designs in the low and midrange?
You do know that WELL less than 1% of people (from Steam stats) are running 4K monitors, right? So while your results are true for 4k, 'where it really matters' couldn't be more antithetic when looking at the gaming landscape of today and likely the next year or two.
Why don't you take the time to run those numbers again for 1080p, where there is the most use (from steam stats) and see what the story is. I'm sure you will find it a bit different. ;)
Here you go:www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GTX_980_Ti_Matrix/23.html
It's well known the AMD Fury cards compare better at higher resolutions. Can't say I'm sure what point you are trying to get across there citrix...
Because a small segment of the market has 4k Monitors does not minimize the fact that the R9 Fury X is able to outperform the GTX 980 Ti.
Saying nobody cares, is like saying only a handful of people own the Bugatti Veyron, so nobody cares
Arbiter, since I'm a fan of the whichever graphics vendor has the current Fastest GPU
AMD currently has the fastest GPU available for purchase: Radeon Pro Duo
Should Nvidia release a faster card in the future: i'd be an Nvidia fan
Until then it's AMD
You do know you can edit posts to fix and in order to not double posts right? :)
And as I said, nobody really cares about 4k as so few people have one.