Thursday, January 10th 2019
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang on Radeon VII: "Underwhelming (...) the Performance is Lousy"; "Freesync Doesn't Work"
PC World managed to get a hold of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, picking his thoughts on AMD's recently announced Radeon VII. Skirting through the usual amicable, politically correct answers, Jensen made his thoughts clear on what the competition is offering to compete with NVIDIA's RTX 2000 series. The answer? Vega VII is an "underwhelming product", because "The performance is lousy and there's nothing new. [There's] no ray tracing, no AI. It's 7nm with HBM memory that barely keeps up with a 2080. And if we turn on DLSS we'll crush it. And if we turn on ray tracing we'll crush it." Not content on dissing the competition's product, Jensen Huang also quipped regarding AMD's presentation and product strategy, saying that "It's a weird launch, maybe they thought of it this morning."
Of course, the real market penetration of the technologies Jensen Huang mentions is currently extremely low - only a handful of games support NVIDIA's forward-looking ray tracing technologies. That AMD chose to not significantly invest resources and die-space for what is essentially a stop-gap high-performance card to go against NVIDIA's RTX 2080 means its 7 nm 331 mm² GPU will compete against NVIDIA's 12 nm, 545 mm² die - if performance estimates are correct, of course.
The next remarks came regarding AMD's FreeSync (essentially a name for VESA's Adaptive Sync), which NVIDIA finally decided to support on its GeForce graphics cards - something the company could have done outright, instead of deciding to go the proprietary, module-added, cost-increased route of G-Sync. While most see this as a sign that NVIDIA has seen a market slowdown for its G-Sync, added price-premium monitors and that they're just ceding to market demands, Huang sees it another way, saying that "We never competed. [FreeSync] was never proven to work. As you know, we invented the area of adaptive sync. The truth is most of the FreeSync monitors do not work. They do not even work with AMD's graphics cards." In the wake of these word from Jensen, it's hard to understand the overall silence from users that might have their FreeSync monitors not working.
Reportedly, NVIDIA only found 12 out of 400 FreeSync-supporting monitors to support their G-Sync technology automatically in the initial battery of tests, with most panels requiring a manual override to enable the technology. Huang promised that "We will test every single card against every single monitor against every single game and if it doesn't work, we will say it doesn't work. And if it does, we will let it work," adding a snarky punchline to this matter with an "We believe that you have to test it to promise that it works, and unsurprisingly most of them don't work." Fun times.
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PC World
Reportedly, NVIDIA only found 12 out of 400 FreeSync-supporting monitors to support their G-Sync technology automatically in the initial battery of tests, with most panels requiring a manual override to enable the technology. Huang promised that "We will test every single card against every single monitor against every single game and if it doesn't work, we will say it doesn't work. And if it does, we will let it work," adding a snarky punchline to this matter with an "We believe that you have to test it to promise that it works, and unsurprisingly most of them don't work." Fun times.
270 Comments on NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang on Radeon VII: "Underwhelming (...) the Performance is Lousy"; "Freesync Doesn't Work"
The richer he gets the meaner he becomes..He hates on something that he bought and tested 400 of ..:laugh::D
NVDA makes great products but the leadership and culture of the company has been and still is, one big money grab by way of coercion. From SLI to G-Sync, can you say "proprietary"?
www.polygon.com/2014/4/20/5633602/list-of-every-video-game-all-time
That makes for a little over 160000 FreeSync tests - and if you consider the rate at which Steam spits out indies, they better have a really efficient test sequence :)
Yeah, its a good day :D We needed some spice to forget all our GPU woes.
www.anandtech.com/show/1864/inside-microsoft-s-xbox-360/8
someone is shaking.:cry::twitch:
As for RT... until I see AMD announce their next console APU that has hardware RT capability, I don't see any movement in that department and deep down we all know that is what the tech needs for mass adoption and, thus, support in content. Nvidia can't even take that cake because they don't make x86 CPUs and don't do custom silicon.
Freesync works fine and has this last year for me go figure, Im that lucky i guess.
The guy should get his focus back, his company probably lost in worth , AMDs actual worth and he's being investigated for ineptitude or deception (tbd) so should probably be working to increase adoption by devs of Rtx imho, not this shit banter.
Jensen.
Linux driver support.
With freesync now supported one BIG ass contributing factor for me to purchase a Vega 64 @gtx1070 price was that and still felt like having shit tons of linux issues, no adaptive sync and buying a 1080 at 100$ more but closed my eyes and purchased it.
Still not happy about the Vega Hardware, that's the only thing I'm not happy about with the AMD Gpu.
If only AMD Knew how to make good gaming gpu chips again.......
Mind you, my 1440p 165hz gsync monitor only cost me $350. Granted its a TN panel but i use a ColorMunki display calibrator for color accuracy.