Not one person here is capable of seeing the oxymoron in the title? AMD beat NVIDIA to HBM and HBM2 by Pioneering it. NVIDIA a company ten times larger than AMD feels the need to steal someone else's technology and then using their massive amounts of money to bring it to market first, even though the P100 news is a year old and was fully expected by now? Really, that's where the credit is given? And now Intel, also a MUCH larger company is asking AMD to help them with their iGPU's, lmao. And Microsoft, a company worth almost $200 billion can't even develop their own console hardware without AMD? Hmm, why don't Microsoft go to NVIDIA for console hardware? Hmm I wonder... You do not hire the Lazy and expect things to happen.
NVIDIA is like the thief that breaks into someone's vault and steals all the gold, then turns around and that thief gives that same gold to charity, and then the credit is given to the thief? Really? Every last one of you should be ashamed of yourselves for not having the moral fortitude and decency to know where the credit should be given for HBM2 and most major gaming developments in the first place. I guess with everyone's skewed morality here credit for HBM2's very existence should also be given to NVIDIA just because "Hey they used it first"? Maybe we should also thank NVIDIA for Vulkan's existence as well? Oh and thank NVIDIA for the Xbox, the Play Station and the Nintendo Wii. Oh and don't forget games ported from AMD based consoles to the PC, thank you NVIDIA for that too. I guess we should all thank NVIDIA for GDDR5X as well, I think they used it first too.
If NVIDIA was all that great of a tech developing company, then why don't they develop their own Graphics memory standards? Huh? Explain that to me. What major technology, either hardware or software that we can thank NVIDIA for once Vega releases? What on Vega will be directly developed by NVIDIA? Anything worth mentioning at all? What tech will be on the next Xbox that we can thank NVIDIA for?
Does anyone here have the decency to give credit for HBM2 where it is actually due? I'm not a fan of either company but I at least have eyes and can see where the majority of gaming breakthroughs, technologies and developments are coming from in the first place. Oh wait SLI perhaps? Err, still nope NVIDIA got that from buying out 3dfx, while AMD developed Crossfire 100% from the ground up themselves.
I like NVIDIA a LOT but they need to start developing major world changing tech of their own once in a while (like they used to in the early days of GeForce), like HBM and Vulkan, both of which are changing the gaming landscape with no help in sight from NVIDIA.