When AMD themselves put the tag gaming on the product page its not that surprising that the first thought many have had is "how is the gaming performance?". Again AMD PR is failing hard. They should have stuck to Prosumer and left any reference to "just game" out of the press.
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When AMD themselves put the tag gaming on the product page its not that surprising that the first thought many have had is "how is the gaming performance?". Again AMD PR is failing hard. They should have stuck to Prosumer and left any reference to "just game" out of the press.
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AMD posted it themselves that to use the trademarked Freesync name and logo the manufacturers had to submit their adaptive sync monitors for a free certification program - how stringent that program was was entirely in he hands of AMD - several articles/interviews made reference to this. It does sound as though AMD intends to be stricter with Freesync2 certification, but that doesnt remove the fact that AMD did in one way or another sign off on all the freesync products launched previously.
You cant slap someone elses trademark on your product without permission.
Fair enough if that's the case, but you haven't answered my question - "Why are they sandbagging, what are they trying to achieve?"
The FE should still have been released without the gaming fanfare. When you say you believe they are sandbagging - if they are, why?
Indeed. At most, they should have just said it's capable of gaming but that isn't its primary function.
Isn't that what Raja actually said? I recall him saying that if you're buying card to play games, you'll be better waiting for RX Vega, no?
Hahaha. That's pretty much exactly what AMD did say.
FE has never been marketed as a gaming card, merely as a card you could game on if you wanted to. It's more like an Nvidia Quadro P5000 than a 1080GTX.
Except the quadro counterparts still have similar gaming performance to the GeForce ones - https://hothardware.com/reviews/nvidia-quadro-p6000-and-p5000-workstation-gpu-reviews?page=6
Soldato
+1.
The Maxwell quadro (m6000) was quicker in games than the Titan X was.
Same story with pascal.
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This Vega PR disaster idea is overblown and will get automatically be dealt with for better or worse by the RX launch. If RX is great then ALL the FE whirlwind a segment of the web community has generated is obsolete and shown to be self-inflicted and meaningless storm in a teacup. If RX is a failure then no amount of Post-FE/Pre-RX PR BS would mitigate that. Sure they could have communicated better/anticipated the child like mentality of the web from the outset of the FE launch but what's done is done, no point trying to put a glitter encrusted plaster on it.
Yep, if RX Vega is great, then all will be forgiven and forgotten. But AMD make these mistakes every single time, and they can't expect to compete with the likes of Nvidia if they can't learn from their mistakes and get their messaging to work correctly. AMD are their own worst enemy when it comes to getting their message out there to their potential customers.
Man of Honour
Just passed 200 hours playing RTW in the last few weeks lol.
If Vega takes much longer I will be writing my posts in Latin.
If Vega takes much longer I will be writing my posts in Latin.
Just passed 200 hours playing RTW in the last few weeks lol.
If Vega takes much longer I will be writing my posts in Latin.
What is RTW? Return to Wolfenstein?
Man of Honour
Rome Total War.
Has 10 cores, and quad Titan Xps, plays a 13 year old game more than some people work.
Close to finishing and moving to the sequel?
Their ability to contain any facts and specifications for Vega has been masterful but their ability to contain expectations or opinions has been horrible.
Man of Honour
Has 10 cores, and quad Titan Xps, plays a 13 year old game more than some people work.
Close to finishing and moving to the sequel?
Finished it many times but don't like the sequel.
There is more to gaming than pretty graphics, unfortunately these days game devs forget about game play.
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