Really..... taken from the
Anardtech article.
Did you even read my post, I was saying that AMD did it right, that hopefully they have learned from past mistakes and seem to be ahead at the moment. But of course you just have to jump to AMD's defence even though they were being praised and people take the mickey out of DP for NVidia damage control.
The article didn't disprove what I said and your initial statement was that we couldn't know what was being used for the demo... when the literally only possibility was Polaris. You were praising AMD for something you didn't have right. I know what you were saying, it was still wrong regardless of what your intention was. It's called discussion, or is this the new internet discussion, where if you say something incorrect but it had the right intention it can't be discussed.
Also I replied because of your first point where you said it was standard and fine to use a fake/mockup, I just pointed out the second part because you also said it in the post.
It IS a big deal to mislead people intentionally. I even said this in a post that Kaap and Greg had a go at me about when the first rumours came up that they didn't actually show Pascal, accurate, to which both guys jumped down my throat.
I said, it's not a big deal to show mockups or fakes, it however IS a big deal to show them while pretending they are real and I also said at the time without having watched the conference I don't know if they stated or implied it was real or not and that is where the line is drawn in if it's okay or not. Having now watched the conference my opinion stands as stated a few posts before. They could maybe get off on a technicality of not stating it was Pascal... they heavily implied it was though.
EDIT:- My take for what it's worth is not showing the test system or card means it's a test/not final cooler, meaning it's probably just something zip tied on to work rather than for aesthetics which journalists would leak about how it needs a massive cooler, loud fan or even the opposite, rumours it runs super cool because they put on a tiny test cooler that isn't suitable for long term usage, but would give unrealistic expectations on the final cooler.
This is the other thing, people often show bare dies because especially on an early process you'll have plenty of dead gpus from every wafer which are pretty much perfect for these events. If you made 5 wafers and have 200 working gpus all being tested in various systems and 100 dead ones, which do you parade around and handle in public and on stage without gloves on? That Nvidia couldn't put dead/non working Pascal's on a non working mock up is in fact a bad sign.
