Robert Hallock Joins Intel

[dyonoctis]

Next "great moment" was Zen3 launch where he told everyone that there is no chance for Zen3 CPUs on 300-series chipset AM4 boards and then after 18 months, happy as a horny schoolboy, gave announcement that Zen3 is finally coming to 300 boards, that 18-month "evaluation" has been successful. That was enormous pile of horse$it as we all saw how Zen3 worked on some Gigabyte and ASRock 300 boards with no problems, few days after launch.

Like Raja K., good riddance Robert.

What was he supposed to say ? I clearly remember the clusterfuck that zen 3 on 300 series chipset was. AMD as a company initially refused to support it because many boards had an issue with the Bios chip size. Some boards could make the upgrade without issues, when many had to either cut on bios features, or older CPU support. MSI even had to launch the 400 series MAX motherboard to get the full support that a 400 chipset is supposed to have. Even when AMD backtracked they didn't gave it the full check, but a "selective beta bios update required". AMD and the board makers dropped the ball, that was a complex situation to solve, and ultimately happened because a LOT of people complained. Threadripper users weren't so lucky.

"Yhea so people higher than me in the company hierarchy decided to not support those chipset but I think that it's a load of bullshit"
Marketing lead somehow not getting fired for making an official statement that doesn't align with the company decision.

 

[Makaveli]

Radeon 9700 / R300. 50% faster than the GeForce equivalent with AA enabled.

ATI’s Radeon 9700 (R300) – Crowning the New King

www.anandtech.com

loved the 9700Pro bought one at launch for $500 which was the price of highend at the time. Makes today's prices look comical.

 

[Evildead666]

loved the 9700Pro bought one at launch for $500 which was the price of highend at the time. Makes today's prices look comical.

Overclocked really well too
Those were the days.
A large slab of aluminium and a rear exhaust. (3rd party cooler)
Yay.

 

[evernessince]

The most successful Radeon release of all time, Polaris? Though I guess Vega (and all form factors it is present on) is also a great achievement... esp. at the compute segment), if I had to say, it was Navi 1 which was more or less a flop.

Polaris was not designed by Raja, it was designed by AMD's other GPU architecture team. At the time AMD had two separate teams each working on different products. Raja was working on Vega while the other team was working on polaris and later RDNA1. Raja contributed to AMD's compute for sure but he is not responsible for Polaris. Anyone who purchased a Vega card could have turn around and sold it for two to three times it's MSRP thanks to the crypto boom at the time. Vega likely would have been more appealing to the professional space if AMD had better software support.