And people wonder why AMD"s GPU market share drops like a stone.
Boy... yeah I really do wonder why. How about 'this company cannot be trusted'. The number of topics on artifacting and breaking AMD GPUs are vastly outnumbering the ones on Nvidia cards, but we could never put the finger on it because things were 'as specced'. I wonder why that happens too when the market share is only a quarter of Nvidia's. Now we know better. Its not just abysmal power management and heat, its the VRAM too.
Staying FAR FAR away from this company for any GPU anytime soon. Good luck with those consoles. After 560D and non existant overclocking dreams, stalling progress, now this?!
Utterly ridiculous and if anyone somehow feels AMD deserves benefit of doubt? Get yourself checked out. This isn't a player anymore, its a leftover of what once was. Let's hope Intel can rise above anything that is IGP level performance soon. Its the last chance.
'jebaited'... pffft
Yeah its all a bit of a stuff up but at the same time its a good thing, we should thank both companies Nvidia and AMD, Nvidia for dropping prices that forced AMDs hand and AMD then to give us a free upgrade in performance and keeping the prices the same, in the end its us the consumer that wins, even if it is a bit messy.
'a bit'. The company that engineers your product pushes a BIOS update that shortens the lifespan for its OWN customers,
willingly, and only to gain a minimal (PR) advantage versus the direct competitor?
Yeah just a bit of a stuff up
Its fine though, you can always flash back right? ...at your own risk.
Note that AIBs now apply a binning process to the very same chips that are deemed 'not stable', and put the better bins in '14 Gbps' GPUs. A comforting thought isn't it. I think they'll make it just past warranty. Now that's consumers winning for sure!
tbf, whenever AMD does crap like this happens MSI always seems to be front and center or the only board partner that can't handle the changes.
Actually MSI is always the first telling us an honest story, and being consistent with its GPU releases and tiering. Except maybe if its coming from a random MSI rep. But this is an announcement. The real question is why AIBs are not coming out with one story together. It shows that the rest is trailing the music and unable to draw the same conclusions yet, or just slow. None of that is a good thing that shows dedication in any way, or is it?
Mark my words. These 14 Gbps models are going to be more prone to failure too.
You are flat out wrong here. Memory modules are standard spec and many graphics cards use memory modules from different vendors. If memory module meets the speed requirement it will work. If it is a faster memory module it is fine - it will work at a lower speed as BIOS dictates.
Precisely. Reading between the lines here, too huh
The original specs are not changed and based on AMD statement will not be changed. Best case scenario is AIBs quickly phasing out the models with 12Gbps VRAM and replacing these with 14Gbps models - hopefully with a different model name. Worst case scenario is RX 5600XT on the market with 10% (and based on some reviews, larger) performance delta between models.
That is the only possible way both AMD and AIBs can save face here. Pull the entire launch, recall all sold and ordered GPUs and replace with officially specced 14Gbps modules.
Anything else : 'You got screwed'
AMD makes a last minute drastic change to specification, the most unprofessional move imaginable, putting board partners in terrible position, but soon it will be board partner's fault because of false accusations about using poor quality components. You people just don't deserve these cards, neither does AMD.
Yeah. Share resurged to 30 odd percent for a short while while Nvidia couldn't sell overpriced Turing GPUs. Wooptiedoo? One bump doesn't define a trend.
