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**AMD Radeon 390X Graphics Card WCE**

Diddums said:
This is Bulldozer all over again.




The least they could do is give us a feint idea of what's going on. It's not lack of performance, lack of value or lack of product that's forced my hand, but lack of communication.
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Yeah I know what you mean.. Have that feeling as well :confused:

Maybe this is just the calm before the storm though, and 390X will blow us all away...

Come on AMD !!
 
Diddums said:
This is Bulldozer all over again.


I'll probably just grab a 980, I can't ne bothered waiting for these incompetent fools again.

The least they could do is give us a feint idea of what's going on. It's not lack of performance, lack of value or lack of product that's forced my hand, but lack of communication.
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I dont remember Bulldozer being a lack of information issue, AMD were making all sorts of claims, the issue was that Bulldozer fell sort of those claims.
 
Final8y said:
I dont remember Bulldozer being a lack of information issue, AMD were making all sorts of claims, the issue was that Bulldozer fell sort of those claims.
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Bulldozer was on the rumour mill for well over a year before anything actually happened. It was just delay after delay and we were rewarded with a rather disappointing product for our patience. I have the same feeling with this new lineup, albeit with no information whatsoever which if anything makes it worse. All they have to do is throw us a bone but there's nothing. Silence.

I get the feeling that behind the wall of silence, something rather significant is wrong. Either poor performance or heat / energy consumption issues.

I don't want to say I'm done with AMD as I'll always have a soft spot for them but this rumoured launch isn't doing them any favours.
 
VincentHanna said:
They don't tend to release information beforehand.

290x was all rumour and speculation until the launch.
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yes they do, this is very bad business, they need to reassure their customers and quick too.... time is running out, i've given AMD plenty of time to let me know what they're up to and nothing.

AMD are a disaster and it's so obvious why and it's all their own fault !
 
Releasing solid info weeks before launch is a bad move when your competition is already ahead, it would just give nVidia a head start on planning the 980ti to counter the 390x.

Staying quiet and releasing the card "when it's ready" :D is the best move.
 
Would think they're losing more money by stubbornly trying to shift the glut and zealously hoarding the 390X.

Everyone's in a tizzy over the 390X, even casuals know about its imminent arrival, trying to shift old stock at current prices seems futile.

Maybe we'll see another situation like when GK104 EOL'd and we got those MSI Power Edition 670s/680s for a song.
 
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Neither company generally released info about a GPU without it being launched effectively at the same time or within a couple of weeks, this is no different. There has been no change, just people are becoming more ridiculous about it. Nvidia don't give out any information about new gpu's months before launch, or usually even weeks, days, possibly though more often than not the first genuine official real specs are only released at launch by Nvidia, or AMD, or Apple, or like 99% of companies. The only things that usually buck that trend are things that set a platform for years to come, IE cpus and their gpus. General specs, number of cores, socket, chipset features of both AMD and Intel platforms are known 12-18 months in advance because the industry needs to know.

GPU's are plug and play, motherboards/cpus are not, they require the entire industry it shift. You can basically sum it up as devices which are plug and play are generally quite/silent until launch date. Things that plug and play devices actually plug in to, are very widely talked about long before launch for obvious reasons.

When did Nvidia talk about, the crap shield console, or Shield tablet, shield handheld, Titan, Titan Z, Titan X, 980gtx, 680gtx, 580gtx, etc... on launch. When did they start talking about NVlink and what that product would work with... a year ago, because NVlink is platform dependant, the other products were all plug and play.

The very few exceptions are things like the 480gtx, largely because of leaks from a certain someone and because Nvidia screwed it up so badly that it was so late they effectively launched it a couple of times.
 
Boomstick777 said:
From what I can gather AMD aren't shifting stock anyway? At least an announcement of some sort could potentially stop people moving to Nvidia 9XX series in the meantime..
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Care to share how have accurately gathered information about AMD's sales? Just curious, not being critical. Anyways, recently things don't look too hot over at AMD.
http://ycharts.com/companies/AMD/profit_margin
 
Im just sitting on the money now, could get a 295x2 and go trifire, but im not pulling the trigger even though its very very itchy. Thats £500 or even 1k at some point will make its way to amd via a 390x or 395x2. which AMD could have now in their pockets but are losing out. If i buy a 295x2 for £500 im gona sit on that card for at least a year, So in my case them holding out is losing them money
 
daresso said:
Care to share how have accurately gathered information about AMD's sales? Just curious, not being critical. Anyways, recently things don't look too hot over at AMD.
http://ycharts.com/companies/AMD/profit_margin
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It's on all the tech sites matey, AMD have lost a ton of market share. AMD sales have dropped big time. Nvidia 9XX series are Nvidia's best selling yet with record sales.

Here's a couple of examples, use Google if you want more..

AMD’s discrete desktop shipments slipped dramatically, down 15.97% from the previous quarter
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonev...an-x-nvidia-has-introduced-4-unanswered-gpus/

NVIDIA could end up becoming the Intel of the graphics card market
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http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/02/27/is-nvidia-becoming-the-intel-of-graphics-cards.aspx

NVIDIA has 76% of GPU market share, leaving AMD with just 24%
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http://www.tweaktown.com/news/43755/nvidia-76-gpu-market-share-leaving-amd-24/index.html
 
With pinch of salt as usual..

AMD Fiji, Grenada, Trinidad, Antigua and Tobago GPUs Incoming – Fiji XT Flagship 20% More Powerful than GTX 980

Read more: http://wccftech.com/amd-gpus-fiji-grenada-trinidad-tobago-unveiled-computex-2015/#ixzz3VETGr9KI

AMD has yet to unveil its new lineup of high end graphic processors and while they have already teased the Fiji XT based flagship, which will most likely be called the Radeon R9 390X, the preceding few spots of the high end spectrum still needs to be filled. The good folks over at the Chinese Vr-Zone.com have revealed that AMD might be set to reveal the Fiji, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago based GPUs at Computex 2015 this year.

Read more: http://wccftech.com/amd-gpus-fiji-grenada-trinidad-tobago-unveiled-computex-2015/#ixzz3VETdYI00
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