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Roy is English. He left nVidia because he had reached a peak there, was running out of challenges and AFAIK wasn't that chuffed with the way things were going with Tegra.

He and John Byrne (now Roy's boss at AMD) are the guys who introduced nVidia to Europe. Roy later joined nVidia to run UK sales, the Northern Europe sales, then EMEA sales, then VP WW sales (at which point he emigrated o the US).

Whilst running the Tegra sales he saw an opportunity in the emerging auto-stereoscopic 3D display market so joined Master Image, followed by a brief spell in Rightware before finally returning to his roots in PC gaming hardware.

He will do great things for AMD and is not at all afraid of taking on the competition in e form of Intel and nVidia.

Great, thanks like I said, he's just what AMD needs.

 

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If it's called GCN2, it's not really completely new, it's just an improvement on the original.
Even if it wasn't called GCN2, we still know what it is.

It's very likely to be 28nm.
But as said, all it's doing is lengthening the 28nm era, with the time difference between the 7XX and 8XXX.

20nm shouldn't be too far away from the October launch (They could probably get 20nm GPU's out by Q2 2014) that's the problem. Unless AMD are about to release like 2 GPU generations in a 6 month time scale, it allows for Nvidia to be able to launch 20nm while there being a reasonable time passed from their 7XX (Not sure that they would though)

I don't know why more people aren't annoyed, it's just lengthening the time we have to wait for a proper performance gain.
I mean even now a 7970 at 1920x1080 won't be able to max everything.

IMO its going to be a 28nm refresh in October, Then Nvidia with 20nm in Q2 2014 and AMD with 20nm in Q3 2014.

I'm fine with that, I want AMD to wait for Nvidia this time round, with 20nm, I don't want them to rush in like they did with 28nm, this time they should wait for Nvidia to show their hand instead of showing their hand to Nvidia like they did with current GPU's.

The 28nm HD 8000 right now would be nice, sure. But they have no reason to release them now as current GPU's are competing well, it also makes sense to release them along with BF4 and ride the hype of that. Plus it may force Nvidia's hand that close to 20nm.

 

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The only thing that showing hands can really effect is the pricing, as they can't make a new GPU to combat it straight away, the best they can do is up clocks (Such as the 6XX series for example, Nvidia got to make killer profits on their cards as they only had to make them clock up so high to reach parity at launch.)

How many reviews are still out there and being use with the 800Mhz 7950 and 925Mhz 7970?

AMD got to confident with the GCN GPU's and left 40 / 50% overclocking room, Nvidia seen it and set 20% higher clocks, so right from the start the net was flooded with the GTX 670/80 beating the "on the freaking floor" clocked 7950/70.
Those reviews are still used today, they show skewed results because of AMD's hair brained decision to clock them low, its still doing a lot of damage to AMD's sales because the majority take those reviews at face value.

Its all about how it looks on reviews, Nvidia know that, AMD need to learn it.

Wait, look, make sure you better it.
Simple.

 

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what has been is no matter, what is to be is.
amd will with the console deal gain have a great advantage.
they will catch up and surpass nvidia with the frame sync with multi gpu as they already done so with single cards.

Once that happens, Nvidia will go away as 3dfx.

Its extremely unlikely Nvidia will go the same way as 3dfx.

In fact, while AMD's revenue income is about the same as Nvidia, AMD are physically twice the size of Nvidia with much greater overheads and debts.
The good news now for AMD is they have paid down the majority of debts to bring them all down to a manageable level, they have also shrunk their physical size and overheads, with more of all that to come. As of the last quarter AMD were still not profitable, but they did better the predictions of their fanatical situation at that point, and still have a lot of cash and assets, more than enough to continue on through 2014 at current levels of looses.

The difference in revenue structures is, GPU sales make up a far higher percentage of revenue for Nvidia than GPU sales do for AMD.
AMD's revenue is made up of

A, Both retail and commercial CPU's

B, GPU's

C, AMD own the SeaMicro server company

D, a portfolio of Intellectual Property, such as the 64Bit part of all CPU's, including Intel who licence that from AMD, Motherboard Chip-Sets, The GPU in the xBox 360 and Nintendo Consoles, some of the technology you find in medical equipment, car Dashboard computers, TV's....

Nvidia's revenue is made up of.

A, GPU's.

B, Mobile SoC Chips, the CPU is licenced from ARM, the iGPU by Nvidia.

C, some Intellectual Property, such as the PS3 GPU, there may be some other comitial aspects I don't know about.


AMD have had a string of contract wins lately that are beside the Game Console wins, which is great news, AMD is also continuing in its restructuring and the paying down of the remainder of its debts, they say they will be profitable in Q3 this year, this is before the revenue from the xBox One and PS4 kicks in.

Nvidia are profitable and have been for a very long time, they also have a much larger cash stash than AMD.
The only problem Nvidia have (and it is a big one) is that they are almost entirely dependant on GPU sales, and they don't really have enough IP to branch out, they would have to rely on Intel and AMD to licence them the IP they would need to break into growing markets in a way that is significant enough to sustain them as they currently stand.

 

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It's not a 5GHZ CPU though, it's a 4.7GHZ with a 5GHZ boost.

lol.... I was waiting for that.