Radeon AIB Partners "Frustrated" at AMD

[MrMD]

Seems to me many forget or overlook how hot the titan x and 980ti gets with a reference cooler. He wouldnt even listen to reason as i told him to wait to make his mind up until after the Polaris reveal. the fool even got a x34 freesync panel..

Even 970's! Mine is oced at stock volts and some games it pulls upwards of 260w!

 

[AlamoX]

why would AIB be frustrated for not having high end competing cards
AMD is launching low/mid without competition from Nvidia on that segment
i can see them being angry if AMD is forcing very little margins on them, but not because they didnt offer high end.

 

[GFX-Kid]

got a friend who has 2x 290 non reference and the first thing he said to me today was, "im gonna get that 1080" and i asked him: "why?" to which he replied " im so tired of the heat and that 1080 is twice as fast as a titan x". *facepalm*

Seems to me many forget or overlook how hot the titan x and 980ti gets with a reference cooler. He wouldnt even listen to reason as i told him to wait to make his mind up until after the Polaris reveal. the fool even got a x34 freesync panel..

Lol. Yea, there are a lot of people like that. No matter how much what you're saying makes sense, they will just go with what they want.

 

[D.P.]

Computex really matters to hardware vendors, if i was an AMD exclusive GPU partner and had no new GPU's to take there i would be really really ####'ed too.

The good thing with that rumour is we only have to wait 2 weeks to find out.

 

[humbug]

AMD were showing off working Polaris cards 6 months ago.

Is it that AMD don't have any cards to give them, or are they just being insanely difficult and secretive, even at the expense of their own partners?

 

[Mtom]

Computex really matters to hardware vendors, if i was an AMD exclusive GPU partner and had no new GPU's to take there i would be really really ####'ed too.

As far as i know, there will be AIB Polaris cards at Computex.

 

[Gerard]

Seems to me many forget or overlook how hot the titan x and 980ti gets with a reference cooler. He wouldnt even listen to reason as i told him to wait to make his mind up until after the Polaris reveal. the fool even got a x34 freesync panel..

Third party coolers as well, the strix cooler for me is hitting in the 80's with a slight overclock to 1425.

 

[humbug]

As far as i know, there will be AIB Polaris cards at Computex.

I don't want to join the "AMD are Doomed" troll train but if they don't have cards that in what ever way compete with Pascal and compete well in performance for money; to show off in these coming 3 weeks AMD can forget about stopping the rot in their market share because everyone will take any faltering or absence on their part as 'end game' and move on.....

The next 3 weeks are critical. For AMD and their partners.

 

[JediFragger]

Third party coolers as well, the strix cooler for me is hitting in the 80's with a slight overclock to 1425.

That sounds like it's faaaaar too high m8!! I've had multiple G1's and MSI TF5's and none have come close to that (unless you're SLI'ing, then it's a complete bitch!)

Don't SLi man, the top card will hit throttle point in NO time

 

[nashathedog]

I thought perhaps the rumours might be wrong and Polaris would be like GP104 (leaving vega to compete with full fat pascal) but evidently not.

I would really like a new GPU in June so it looks like it is going to have to be Nvidia.

Of course it wasn't but that's where AMD need to be focusing themselves, The 970 and 980 went unanswered for months, AMD can't afford that to happen again. Every one raving about the excellent Maxwell chips for months on end probably helped them sell a lot more of there lower end chips than they should have too.

 

[Gerard]

That sounds like it's faaaaar too high m8!! I've had multiple G1's and MSI TF5's and none have come close to that (unless you're SLI'ing, then it's a complete bitch!)

Don't SLi man, the top card will hit throttle point in NO time

Well just reached a new high.

And this is a card that asus claims is "30% cooler", even with the out of the box clock it hits in the 80-82c range.

 

[humbug]

My fear here is that AMD still view the Fury-X as an enthusiast product when the rest of the world doesn't.

Its really not worth more than £250 at this stage and if AMD think there going to sell a lot of power efficient 390 performance equivalents for £250 while continuing to sell Fury-X's for £350 there in for a nasty shock.

 

[Mtom]

My fear here is that AMD still view the Fury-X as an enthusiast product when the rest of the world doesn't.

Its really not worth more than £250 at this stage and if AMD think there going to sell a lot of power efficient 390 performance equivalents for £250 while continuing to sell Fury-X's for £350 there in for a nasty shock.

I think thats not the case. Most of the GPUs are now going to the Pro Duo.

 

[pmc25]

People should read the comment section on that clickbait ... btarunr (who supposedly also writes under another pseudonym for wccftech) made the whole thing up. He's getting called out for it.

The source simply says AMD have gagged AIB partners from discussing Polaris.

 

[Mtom]

I don't want to join the "AMD are Doomed" troll train but if they don't have cards that in what ever way compete with Pascal and compete well in performance for money; to show off in these coming 3 weeks AMD can forget about stopping the rot in their market share because everyone will take any faltering or absence on their part as 'end game' and move on.....

The next 3 weeks are critical. For AMD and their partners.

Too bad a paper launch have a huge effect like this.
I think they will show good cards. If they really bring mainstream cards, then they may not compete the high end Pascals, but they will be very good in the tier they arrive. If they really bring forward Vega, then both sides lineup will be complete by autumn.

 

[r7slayer]

Ahh this old crap again. Same old doom and gloom like when the 970 and 980 came out. AMD are doomed look at market shares.
They can't survive another year they are haemorrhaging. bla bla bla.
1070 and 1080 are reviled and same old crap again.

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.

Yea cos that would be great for consumers...
Die AMD die cos i want to only buy nVidia based products and pay a even bigger premium.
Winning!

 

[humbug]

Too bad a paper launch have a huge effect like this.
I think they will show good cards. If they really bring mainstream cards, then they may not compete the high end Pascals, but they will be very good in the tier they arrive. If they really bring forward Vega, then both sides lineup will be complete by autumn.

If Polaris 10 XT is as fast as a 980TI for sub £300 AMD will do well given that it looks like the 1070 with similar performance is way over £300, and thats after the price drop when AIB's get to sell theirs.

 

[Mauller]

The difference with the polaris launch compared to Hawaii's is that they will launch with drivers that should see them reaching near max theoretical performance.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

People should read the comment section on that clickbait ... btarunr (who supposedly also writes under another pseudonym for wccftech) made the whole thing up. He's getting called out for it.

The source simply says AMD have gagged AIB partners from discussing Polaris.

LOL.

 

[D.P.]

As far as i know, there will be AIB Polaris cards at Computex.

Not according to the latest rumoursl
http://www.tweaktown.com/news/52056/...tex/index.html

AMD won't have partners showing Polaris cards at Computex

Nordic Hardware reached out to us with their report, saying that AMD's partners "won't have any new cards to display at Computex and the only Polaris cards promoted to them from AMD are R9 390/390X performance class but for a mid-range price. Great value but no sign of any GTX 1080 contender"

Who knows.