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Radeon Technologies Group Q&A on March 3rd 10AM-5PM central time

shankly1985 said:
People really expect them to release full info on next GPUs?? Come on it was never going to happen they did however tell us a very important release we can expect that is more than enough.
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If you invited to a session called Ask Me Anything people are correct to presume they will get better answers then 'Can't talk about it' 'more information will come out latter' 'I don't know' 'I don't work for that side of the business'.

AMD should have anticipated what people were going to ask and either been more prepared to release details or waited until closer to the release date.

TBF the disappointment was not all one sided, the AMA session was overrun with the hardcore club asking silly question about niche issues, 'When are you going give Linux drivers?' etc.
 
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Freddie1980 said:
If you invited to a session called Ask Me Anything people are correct to presume they will get better answers then 'Can't talk about it' 'more information will come out latter' 'I don't know' 'I don't work for that side of the business'.

AMD should have anticipated what people were going to ask and either been more prepared to release details or waited until closer to the release date.

TBF the disappointment was not all one sided, the AMA session was overrun with the hardcore club asking silly question about niche issues, 'When are you going give Linux drivers?' etc.
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Ask me anything you want doesn't mean you going to get an answer lol
 
queamin said:
My god they not going to tell you anything that will get back to nvidia and help them out just because people are impatient.
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People don't seem to understand the lesser information is available for the AMD cards the better it is for the consumer, as it would mean it keep Nvidia guessing as well. One of the reason why 980Ti was launch at a more modest £530-£550 instead of £600-£700 and was rushed to the market was because they thought AMD's Fury series was really going to be a threat to them :p
 
Freddie1980 said:
TBF the disappointment was not all one sided, the AMA session was overrun with the hardcore club asking silly question about niche issues, 'When are you going give Linux drivers?' etc.
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if microsoft carries on the same track that issue might not be so niche >.<
 
Yeah i was expecting a lot more information..bit of a disappointment.

Marketing wise i think they are doung much better since RTG was formed.
They are everywhere, demoing the polaris, sending out the dev machines with Fury X2, showing external GPU solution, pushing drivers one after another.
They gathered speed quiet well...while Nvidia is silent.
 
Me personally I didn't really expect any serious answers to those burning questions about Polaris, but maybe there is something to say about not holding the session at all until they can actually give out something in the way of info.

On a side note I see that Nvidia's Tom Petersen is going to be on PCPer's 12 hour live stream on march 6th. Makes me wonder if it will be another session like this one without any real info or will he actually be able to tell us something, seeing as this will be just after Jen-Hsun's opening keynote at GTC.


EDIT: obviously this will be another we cannot tell you anything session seeing as GTC is actually a month latter in April. my mistake. Doh!
 
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Freddie1980 said:
TBF the disappointment was not all one sided, the AMA session was overrun with the hardcore club asking silly question about niche issues, 'When are you going give Linux drivers?' etc.
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That is not a niche issue, that is the fundamental question i want answered. I wont purposely buy another AMD GPU until they make serious changes to their approach to Linux and OpenGL drivers.
 
Marine-RX179 said:
People don't seem to understand the lesser information is available for the AMD cards the better it is for the consumer, as it would mean it keep Nvidia guessing as well. One of the reason why 980Ti was launch at a more modest £530-£550 instead of £600-£700 and was rushed to the market was because they thought AMD's Fury series was really going to be a threat to them :p
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That's not the point.

The point is you shouldn't hype up an event, using phrases like "ask me anything", when you know what people want to know, and you don't you can't tell them.

It was always going to be an own goal. A disappointment for the fans, and an exercise in squirming and dodging questions for the AMD reps. So what's the point?

Just call it a Q&A session, and publish a list of topics they won't answer questions about beforehand.

Unless the intention is to get as many people to attend the event as possible, regardless of how many of them you're going to disappoint. And that does seem to be AMD's strategy. "There's no such thing as bad publicity. We'll get people talking about us, even if it's just to say how crap our event was. Result!"

AMD PR = terribad.
 
GoogalyMoogaly said:
Why hold an event based on Q&A if you're barely going to answer anything though?
Seems like a waste of everyone's time.
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It's not you get answers for other things. It's the norm for companies to keep information under wraps. Why tell the complete ins and outs just so your competition can get all the information? That would be stupid move
 
This is all nonsense tbh, he should have gone to his boss and the top tier people and said "listen our marketing sucks, our reputation right now is in tatters, were losing market share left right and center, we need to get customers back onside and lure in potential customers, im going to do an AMA session, i want to be able to give some small bits of info but nothing thats going to be seriously NDA breaking, i will submit a list of potential questions, can i have a crib sheet of what i can and cant say"

Then we might have actually got some better responses than just "sorry i want to keep my job" or "thats not a part of the business i deal with"

It makes the whole thing look utterly pointless and a waste of time, and also made him look extremely ill prepared and amateurish when asked about True Audio stuff.

Problem with AMD is they like to leak photos and pics and leave comments like "Wait til GDC :) :) :) " type stuff, and when they roll around, you still dont really get the full truth and end up with comments like "Overclockers Dream" which ends up doing more harm than good.

Im not saying dont spill any info, im just saying go round the company and get information you can release that is not harmful and will keep people interested, then do an QA session stating topics you can discuss beforehand, not put your hand up for an AMA and then say "oh wait no, i cant talk about that" to 99% of the questions asked, people just think why bother and you lose credibility as a company and a person in their eyes.

Anyhow Mid 2016 for Polaris then? probably going to be the mid range junk i imagine also? so we thinking 2017 for the high end stuff? ho hum... 290 lives on a bit longer.
 
shankly1985 said:
It's not you get answers for other things. It's the norm for companies to keep information under wraps. Why tell the complete ins and outs just so your competition can get all the information? That would be stupid move
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Isn't AMA "Ask Me Anything" not "Ask me only a couple of things that I'll actually answer"?

If Nvidia had an event called "Come see our new GPUs" and didn't show any new GPUs just the 'latest' ones I'm sure there would be complaints about false advertising, but if AMD do a "Ask Me Anything" it's apparently a good thing when they don't, and never had any intention to, answer the questions they KNEW would be asked.
 
I'm becoming sceptical that we'll hear anything new about Polaris at GDC in March. Since in this AMA they keep repeating "mid-2016", it wouldn't make sense to unveil Polaris in March and then wait until May/June to release. Esp when most "answers" kept referring to their "strict NDA", which likely won't be lifted until release day.

Other sources are saying that what AMD /really/ wants to talk about at GDC is "GPUOpen". So it could be a very disappointing event for those of us interested in Polaris.
 
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