AMD Officially but Silently Downgrades Radeon RX 560 with an 896 SP Variant

[Hood]

The reasoning behind doing it doesn't make it better. It doesn't change the fact that they released a card, let it be reviewed, and then limited its performance after. And they didn't just limit the reference cards, they limited all HD4850 cards via the driver.

Instead of just replacing the faulty cards with a fixed version, they decided to just limit performance.

We can't really expect a small company like AMD to do the right thing - that might have cost them serious money, and what would the stockholders say? This is why companies use questionable tactics, and all of them do at times, because they have to answer to those stockholders. Humans all make mistakes, damage control is a make or break proposition at times. That's why I prefer to deal with larger companies, like NVIDIA and Intel, they have more resources to do the right kind of damage control, instead of the shady kind. As for AMD, I can think of a dozen examples of their shady tactics just in the Ryzen and Vega releases this year. I know NVIDIA and Intel have done the same things in the past, but AMD is the champ, in my perception.

 

[Jism]

Is Jism the official TPU AMD apologist?

I'd say him and Vya Domus are in Nvidia's pocket, because their attitude certainly doesn't make AMD any favours.

Man,

Since the FX5700 and Pentium 1 i am all AMD. I never bought any Intel or Nvidia based system after that era. For a good reason tho. And thus AMD offers simply a better price / performance ratio compared to both other brands. Nvidia skimped out on quality on that 5700 and the moment i replaced the thermal paste the card was dead. This never ever happend to AMD hardware in my past. I used to work at a computer store for a long enough time to know that Intel is far more sensitive to damage then AMD.

Anyway; that's not the point. It's still 4%. If you really need that extra performance put in 20$ extra for a 470/570/480/580. Buying budget cards is asking for troubles anyway.

 

[Assimilator]

Looks at thread title and want to ask:

How did it transition to Nvidia

Let's not make this into another AMD v Nvidia drama otherwise I will issue thread bans or vacations to those who continue to troll/derail this thread.

A better question would be - why are you still surprised that every thread about NVIDIA or AMD or Intel turns into a flamewar? It's almost an official Internet rule at this point.

 

[hapkiman]

It never ceases to amaze when these companies make these bone headed moves like this. Intel, NVidia, and now AMD. Geeze guys, it's not brain surgery its just common sense marketing 101.

 

[Assimilator]

It never ceases to amaze when these companies make these bone headed moves like this. Intel, NVidia, and now AMD. Geeze guys, it's not brain surgery its just common sense marketing 101.

The bean-counters who push these "brilliant" ideas are the same people who have no understanding that it takes 20 years to build a reputation, and 5 minutes to destroy it.