Really I hate the "First PCIe 4.0 7Tflop bla bla bla" if it weren't for the PCIE 4.0 they couldn't say that, and PCIe 4.0 is currently unsupported in reality and isn't going to be supported before this card hits the market, so the spin on this proves they very carefully worded it and I would rather just see the numbers, is it going to take less than the 300W the Nvidia uses to get the same 7Tflop performance? Is it going to do some other fancy faster math? Is it going to do something more or the same at a lower cost.
AMD is trying really hard in the server market, but I don't think 2018 will be their year to take any crown, and neither will 2019. Maybe 2020 if they keep up with Zen2 and Navi is impressive. But that will also require thousands of hours to write the tools to make their supposed cards faster, or to make the same speed cards as fast and easy to use, which if Lisa is in the know she will already have people working on, but if not we will know the reason why they fail. Given AMD's vaporware issues, where they build hardware for software that isn't ready, or software that has great implementation of either ease of use, speed, or functionality, and you can only choose one......
I think AMD is playing their cards right for the midsize guys where a few IT guys run the show and want to save thousands to put into software development for long life peak performance, they will survive and their prosumer, gaming and server business will work out in the end, they will never be as big as Nvidia or Intel though. The same reason the Ford F-150 sells so many shitty trucks, its the king, its the classic standard of equal to the neighbors. AMD is the ful featured but still slightly odd Holden, the loud and hot Corvette versus the supercars, its second dog to the CPU and GPU business mostly due to mismanagement, Im just glad they are here to keep us from paying thousands more that Intel and Nvidia would charge if they could.
