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Radeon AIB Partners "Frustrated" at AMD

hyperseven said:
but public perception, albeit misinformed, believe it should be.
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I fail to see how anyone in these forums knows what the "Public Perception" is. For starters no-one goes outside into the fresh air to actually know what the weathers like let alone the "Public Perception" of Polaris (none of us leave our computer chairs, we never leave these forums).

Has anyone done a poll of the whole of the UK to see what the "Public Perception" of Polaris actually is? NO, didnt think so. :p

I don't know why people make these sweeping statements that contain facts that they could never possibly know. DOH! :rolleyes:
 
Panos said:
A) The only AMD only AIB partner is Sapphire.
B) click bait article. Everyone knows the production scales a year ahead. They do not wake up one morning saying "hey i will be producing x gpu in june"
C) Lets see how the cookies crumble this summer....
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Agreed. This definitely smells of click bait to me.

Not long left now. In 3 weeks time we will have all the information we need to make a choice :D

Jono8 said:
If Polaris is indeed just 390/390x performance, that isn't going to matter at all, as the 1080 will likely have twice the performance!
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That would be a bit of a fail. I am confident the top Polaris will be better than a 390X.
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
The actual article:



So that means there are AIB cards already ready to go,but AMD is holding back for the time-being??

I wonder if them are waiting to see how well the GTX1080 is,so they can adjust the price??





I don't anyone of my enthusiast mates who thinks that though?? AMD has been quite clear in saying they are targetting more mainstream users.
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not everyone is an enthusiast and will just go off a purchase of what youtube tells them.
 
hyperseven said:
not everyone is an enthusiast and will just go off a purchase of what youtube tells them.
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But even YouTube says the same. Nobody seems to think this is a GTX1070 or GTX1080 competitor and literally everybody is saying it will be in a different price bracket.

Go into any thread about Polaris,any news article or even any of the popular YouTube channels. Everybody thinks it is R9 390 to Fury level performance but cheaper.

Virtually every news outlet out there is saying the same. So,I know I don't think anybody is thinking this is a GTX1070 or GTX1080 competitor.

Not even Flopper thinks that AFAIK!! :p:D
 
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Jono8 said:
If Polaris is indeed just 390/390x performance, that isn't going to matter at all, as the 1080 will likely have twice the performance!
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For who though?? What if is a £175 to £200 card then?? I have a GTX960,if a GTX1060 or Polaris 10 is that price and R9 390X,that is like a 60% improvement for me??

I don't have a 4K display,or a 2560X1440 one,and I am not certainly spending £300+ just to run games at the peasant resolutions of 1920X1080 and 1680X1050 which is what you find on £100 monitors.

Out of all my gaming mates,the vast majority don't have GTX970,GTX980 or R9 390 series cards. I know more people with a GTX960 and GTX750TI!!


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But OTH,AMD ability to eff up things is another force to contend with,so probably best to be cynical just to be sure.
 
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If AMD brings out a card that is 390x-980ti performance and is energy efficient for sub £200 then I would buy one in an instant. No doubt Nvidia's new offerings are going to be way out of my price range so it would be nice to have an affordable upgrade. I don't really care about ultra high end as I just want a energy efficient card that is a upgrade from my 780.
 
Kaapstad said:
NVidia may win the battle of the mid range cards with the 1070 and 1080 but come next year I think AMD will win with the full fat Vega v Big Pascal.
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That's assuming AMD are still around by then!

I doubt AMD can survive another round this year.

TBH I wish they'd go under sooner rather than later. At least it will be a complete end to the fanboy wars here.

All we'll have to choose from will be NVIDIA. No arguing, debating, ridiculing, trolling etc.

Sooner it comes, then sooner we can all move on from enthusiast forums like this one - it will be pretty boring when everyone's running the exact same hardware IMO.
 
pastymuncher said:
If AMD brings out a card that is 390x-980ti performance and is energy efficient for sub £200 then I would buy one in an instant. No doubt Nvidia's new offerings are going to be way out of my price range so it would be nice to have an affordable upgrade. I don't really care about ultra high end as I just want a energy efficient card that is a upgrade from my 780.
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You're forgetting the 1070 will only be £50 more or so, and will have drastically improved performance over Polaris.
 
Dave2150 said:
You're forgetting the 1070 will only be £50 more or so, and will have drastically improved performance over Polaris.
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At current exchange rates we are looking at £320 including VAT,once the cheaper AIB cards come out and for the first run it is probably the £375 Founders Edition cards.

Dave2150 said:
That's assuming AMD are still around by then!

I doubt AMD can survive another round this year.

TBH I wish they'd go under sooner rather than later. At least it will be a complete end to the fanboy wars here.

All we'll have to choose from will be NVIDIA. No arguing, debating, ridiculing, trolling etc.

Sooner it comes, then sooner we can all move on from enthusiast forums like this one - it will be pretty boring when everyone's running the exact same hardware IMO.
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Then if you just buy a console yourself and stop being so desperate to wish AMD to go under just because you said your next card will be Pascal. 9000+ people should lose their jobs - good one! Then you don't need to also go on enthusiasts forums too,hence avoiding all the wars!!

But if buy a console you have zero need to care about the hardware then plus AMD is probably slightly less likely to go bankrupt! :)

Purchase justification is why half these wars happen anyway.

The other half happens since hardware enthusiasts tend to be stubborn! ;)

pastymuncher said:
If AMD brings out a card that is 390x-980ti performance and is energy efficient for sub £200 then I would buy one in an instant. No doubt Nvidia's new offerings are going to be way out of my price range so it would be nice to have an affordable upgrade. I don't really care about ultra high end as I just want a energy efficient card that is a upgrade from my 780.
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I hope,but best to see how this pans out over the next six weeks or so IMHO.

I think some people are getting hysterical over AMD launching "after" Nvidia.

Nvidia for most of the last 8 to 10 years,has launched cards using GPUs on new nodes,AFTER AMD.

It has not really done them any harm! Point in case was Fermi,and they still had decent market share! ;)

I would rather AMD does a decent launch,prices the cards properly and makes sure they are close to perfect as they can.

Look at the R9 290/290X rushed launch?? If AMD had delayed it another month or so,and launched with decent coolers,and sorted out some of the other issues,the whole line would have not been jinxed as being hot and noisy.
 
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Just sounds like click bait to me. AMD keeping the performance of their cards close till their own event. All of the past leaked benches seem like the cards have been running on drivers that are restricting the performance.

AMD have said that they will be releasing a whole range of cards while addressing the TAM by providing far better performance per currency. What that says to me is that they are greatly pushing up the performance levels in the lower price brackets. That does not say they will bee lacking a product with high performance.
 
Panos said:
A) The only AMD only AIB partner is Sapphire.
B) click bait article. Everyone knows the production scales a year ahead. They do not wake up one morning saying "hey i will be producing x gpu in june"
C) Lets see how the cookies crumble this summer....
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I couldnt agree more.. Such a click bait article. Makes me wonder if it was somehow inspired by some with a grudge or wish to further sales of the competitor's products. As you said the only AMD exclussive AIB is Sapphire and they have known for a long time what AMD is up to. I mean if if Sapphire "Ed" knows something then Sapphire have known a good long time now as i dont think he is the first in line for new information. *sidenote, i have a difficult time with that fella*

EDIT: seems i forgot about powercolor.. Havent seen them in stores in like forever.
 
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Dave2150 said:
That's assuming AMD are still around by then!

I doubt AMD can survive another round this year.

TBH I wish they'd go under sooner rather than later. At least it will be a complete end to the fanboy wars here.

All we'll have to choose from will be NVIDIA. No arguing, debating, ridiculing, trolling etc.

Sooner it comes, then sooner we can all move on from enthusiast forums like this one - it will be pretty boring when everyone's running the exact same hardware IMO.
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This is a crazy thing to say. You only need to look at the CPU market to see why this would be a bad idea. You don't have to read any threads here, but if AMD were to vanish then you would have to pay more for your GPU.
 
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