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AMD - Home of the world’s fastest GPU
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fair enough
Could be true. Perhaps they all used 580s and then switched to 7970 a few days ago.It could well be true: they don't say they make the card only that one lives there
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Seems like it's just semantics. The term GPU and graphics card are pretty much synonymous to the majority of people.
If anything it's Nvidia who have misleading marketing, claiming the fastest GPU when they haven't had the fastest card in a long time.
If anything it's Nvidia who have misleading marketing, claiming the fastest GPU when they haven't had the fastest card in a long time.
Nope, you would call it a people carrier, not a car.
The only point I'm making here is AMD's validity in their claim, it's a very, very poor claim!
I'm in no way defending their claim by any means, I'm not stupid!
BD is flying off the shelves because of the way they are advertising it even though Intels equivalent are better but that's the world of advertising for you.
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Right right...so Nvidia is wrong to claim they got the fastest GPU when they DO have the fastest GPU, and it right for AMD to claim they got the fastest GPU for throughout the pass 2 years, when they only temporarily had the fastest GPU for their launch of 5870 and 7970?
Claiming they got the fastest GPU at the moment nobody's gonna argue with that, but claiming their GPUs has been fastest for more than over 2 consecutive years is just rightout lying.
6990 vs 590 is arguable. IT is not clear that one is faster than the other.
But NVIDIA can definitely make a claim for the fastest GPU. They invented the term GPU with with the Geforce 256. A graphics card and a GPU aren't the same thing, no matter what the ignorant masses think. Since when have technical terms been redefined based on the whims and ignorance of the masses? A fact can remain true regardless of how many people think it is false.
Nobody calls an dual CPU board with two CPUs a "CPU". Likewise nobody calls a graphics card with two GPUs a "GPU".
NVIDIA can rightly have claimed to have the fastest GPU in the GTX 280/285 days and repeat the claim for the 580.
It's coming, iirc, AMD have stated it's the end of the road for high end cpu's from them and they will only be developing lower powered cpus/apus/mobile parts after they get their current projects out the door.
They also have gpus in most of the consoles too, so that would have kept the money rolling in as well.
This is true, AMD does want to reconsider 'the race' and move into mobile computing. Mercury News interview 2 months ago "We're at an inflection point ... We will all need to let go of the old 'AMD versus Intel' mind-set, because it won't be about that anymore."
However, for the longest time whether car sales or PC parts the mid-low range offerings are where the profit is at and flagship products have served to fuel that consumption through marketing. I am hesitant to believe AMD moving away from something as powerful as that, indeed more so if Intel starts shifting the mass perspective squarely into their corner.
Quite a risky venture that, they will need to work on publicity hard to make this work. Simply put, they cannot honestly expect their mid-low range sales to blossom when the masses see clear benchmark breaking dominance from the competition, especially if its in the form of advert comments and claims.
