AMD’s Scott Wasson talks about the future of Radeon

Kaapstad · 12 Jan 2018 at 17:20

https://videocardz.com/74753/amds-scott-wasson-talks-about-the-future-of-radeon

nashathedog · 12 Jan 2018 at 17:55

He starts by saying they're working hard on new game optimizations which has been true but then he's going on about all the great Adrenalin features like he's missed the news that Adrenalin's bugged and presumably most people will have rolled back like I had too, I didn't have any choice.
Also, I've noticed that 18.4.1 which was meant to fix the DX9 titles disappeared from the AMD website a few days ago.

EDIT: After watching the whole thing I get the impression that nothing is going to replace the current Vega cards in 2018 so those of us with Vega's will get our money's worth,
I will as it's doing a great job at 3440x1440.

Spyhop · 12 Jan 2018 at 18:19

FreeSync has flipped from a good thing into a boat anchor tied to us monitor owners

DarrenM343 · 12 Jan 2018 at 18:35

Spyhop said:
FreeSync has flipped from a good thing into a boat anchor tied to us monitor owners

Wasn't so "free" after all? Might have lost more market share without it

Rroff · 12 Jan 2018 at 18:42

I assume, though it seems a bit missing from the latest information, they are still going ahead with the 12nm shrink of Vega.

Looks a bit bleak for FreeSync owners though.

Phixsator · 12 Jan 2018 at 18:42

DarrenM343 said:
Wasn't so "free" after all? Might have lost more market share without it

I would ditch my gsync monitor in a second if the right specced monitor came along even if it was freesync only. For me personally there are fare more important things that variable refresh rate, even when gaming. But of course not everyone see things this way. Right now im playing BF1 without gsync on.. no problemo

JediFragger · 12 Jan 2018 at 22:53

Spyhop said:
FreeSync has flipped from a good thing into a boat anchor tied to us monitor owners

Locked in ftw

jigger · 13 Jan 2018 at 01:55

Have AMD locked Nvidia out of FreeSync monitors?

jigger · 13 Jan 2018 at 02:01

nashathedog said:
those of us with Vega's will get our money's worth,
I will as it's doing a great job at 3440x1440.

But what about the rest of us? Sobs to self.

Silent_Scone · 13 Jan 2018 at 10:59

I like Scott, he's always been very objective. Shame the bread and butter took him to one of either side. Good video regardless.

Azrael1 · 13 Jan 2018 at 11:19

jigger said:
But what about the rest of us? Sobs to self.

These people bought Nvidia offerings - Bought a GTX1080ti and GTX1080 for spare PC ( would have liked to tried Vega 64 but well mining prices are sky high )

nashathedog · 13 Jan 2018 at 13:02

jigger said:
But what about the rest of us? Sobs to self.

Who knows maybe you're the smart ones.

Time will tell.

Gregster · 13 Jan 2018 at 13:09

jigger said:
But what about the rest of us? Sobs to self.

Did you sell your Vega?

Rofflay · 13 Jan 2018 at 13:26

Phixsator said:
I would ditch my gsync monitor in a second if the right specced monitor came along even if it was freesync only. For me personally there are fare more important things that variable refresh rate, even when gaming. But of course not everyone see things this way. Right now im playing BF1 without gsync on.. no problemo

For pure gaming it could be done in software and not drag the mouse down too because i software ala titanfall 2 and shadow of war you would just automatically have settings lowered on the fly by the game to always be a set fps. Now no one is tied to any one gpu maker and even better... everyone can have ULMB and freesync could die.

I think we went the wrong route better software is needed even though it is still great thing for pulldown and 24fps films.

jigger · 13 Jan 2018 at 13:59

So Scott Wasson didn't really say much about the future of Radeon after all. Someone needs to find a more talkative AMD employee.

AlamoX · 13 Jan 2018 at 14:46

Rroff said:
I assume, though it seems a bit missing from the latest information, they are still going ahead with the 12nm shrink of Vega.

Looks a bit bleak for FreeSync owners though.

i don't remember amd saying vega or polaris is going to 12nm, they would rather keep it for more profitable parts (cpu, apu)
beside why would amd make polaris and vega a bit more efficient and a bit faster? miners will start dumping their old cards on the market to get the new ones.

jigger · 13 Jan 2018 at 15:08

AlamoX said:
i don't remember amd saying vega or polaris is going to 12nm, they would rather keep it for more profitable parts (cpu, apu)
beside why would amd make polaris and vega a bit more efficient and a bit faster? miners will start dumping their old cards on the market to get the new ones.

Hopefully to produce better cards in greater volume. 12nm would also make Vega 64 a lot more appealing to the tree huggers. Some people seem to think 250 watts will heat a home and melt an ice cap somewhere.

David Bisset · 13 Jan 2018 at 15:10

jigger said:
Have AMD locked Nvidia out of FreeSync monitors?

Nope. nvidia still works with adaptive sync monitors so long as it's their mgpus, they just continue to choose not to support it on desktop.

jigger · 13 Jan 2018 at 15:12

David Bisset said:
Nope. nvidia still works with adaptive sync monitors so long as it's their mgpus, they just continue to choose not to support it on desktop.

Must be some inside Nvidia focus group joke then.

Rroff · 13 Jan 2018 at 15:30

AlamoX said:
i don't remember amd saying vega or polaris is going to 12nm, they would rather keep it for more profitable parts (cpu, apu)
beside why would amd make polaris and vega a bit more efficient and a bit faster? miners will start dumping their old cards on the market to get the new ones.

AMD's CTO Mark Papermaster said so himself in conference.