Monday, May 8th 2017
AMD Vega May Launch with Less Than 20,000 Units Available
Fresh from the rumor-mill comes a report that low HBM2 availability may cripple the Vega launch that is expected to happen in the next few weeks, if a report from TweakTown is to be believed. As far as sources, there isn't much other than TweakTown's news report and their article claiming they had been told this by an "exclusive industry source." Apply your usual grain of salt here vigilant reader, but its certainly interesting speculation, if nothing else. It may turn out to be FUD, or it may turn out to be truth. Only the coming weeks will reveal the truth.
Source:
TweakTown
106 Comments on AMD Vega May Launch with Less Than 20,000 Units Available
It's hilarious how everyone is bashing Vega for limited launch supplies. Should I remind everyone how unobtainable GTX 1080 was on launch? Or has everyone already forgotten about that one?
Most people are running 60Hz monitors so the mins are much more important if the average is around or better than 60, that means the real world gameplay on ryzen is often smoother.
It's also curious that everyone compares against a 5(+) GHz OCed 7700k which not everyone will a) have and b) be able to reach, then there is the cooling of the 7700k to consider.
Stock to stock likely tells a different story and of course having all that extra raw performance (see productivity scores) means more headroom for the future.
People these days are terrible for throwing around words like "bad", "sucks" etc. for marginal differences and don't get me started on people talking about raw fps differences instead of percentages and averages versus spikes. ;)
Maybe metrics for 1% and .1% maximums would be useful, as it's not always easy to see that in graphs.
If it is in 1080Ti area, then having only 16k cards isn't that bad, as market is much smaller than one would think, compare this:
www.mindfactory.de/Hardware/Grafikkarten+(VGA)/GeForce+GTX+fuer+Gaming/GTX+1080+Ti.html
to this (not really cheap card):
www.mindfactory.de/Hardware/Grafikkarten+(VGA)/GeForce+GTX+fuer+Gaming/GTX+1080.html
it's like 40 to 1.
We, competitive gamers, don´t look at number of cores or threads. We look at our fps in the upper corner of the screen. If a 1 core CPU delivers the fps we want, that´s what we use. Anything else is irrelevant to us.
I just can´t accept when someone say the differences in gaming between Ryzen and 7700k are marginal. Because they aren´t. E-sports is growing tho, so let´s see how much more time we gonna be a minority..
That talk about "games scaling better on Ryzen with time" is similar to the talk we heard when FX8xxx Bulldozer launched. BS is what I call. Threads are important, but so are IPC/Clocks and is way easier to code for it than to code for multi thread utilization in a 3d environment/engine. Usually the guys that spam multiplayer games side chat with: "reported; banned in 2 days; nice wallhack; nice aimbot; report him; stupid hacker; etc" are the ones like you, that think we suffer from placebo about high refresh rates and 5ms differences in input lag. Go figure. Cya on the battle, with my placebo kit PMW3366 perfect mouse sensor, my 0,7ms oscilocope measured monitor input lag, my 4ms 240hz @ 240 fps frame time and my Gaming NIC. Good luck.
(perhaps you are the typical Witcher 3/Skyrim Ultra GFX Ultra Resolution Eye Candy gamer, so don´t talk about something you don´t know)
"Human eye can´t see past 30fps" - 1995
Honestly, I don't care about bulldozer cause that's in the past :) Open your eyes there's a lot of new things around :) and more are to come.
EDIT:
You can watch this there's some games and difference between 7700k and 1700 with 1080 Ti GPU
Laugh at the stupidity of that
Why would Nvidia Buy the CPU division of AMD
Apart from the TOTAL WASTE OF MONEY because
AMD CPU Division has its Value in its X86 License and cross licensing its x64 patents to Intel
If AMD gets Sold its Cross licencing Agreement with Intel ENDs no more X86 Licence
END OF YOUR JOKE
I have a 1700 with some G-Skill memory and none of the motherboards I have tried can run memory over 3200Mhz (and only one did actually do 3200Mhz...).