-
Competitor rules
Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.
AMD - What can they do to improve?
- Thread starter SiDeards73
- Start date
Associate
- Joined
- 25 Jul 2014
- Posts
- 413
- Location
- Leicester
AMD have scored wins with the consoles and with Mantle it has set the agenda for the next DirectX and OpenGL and reducing their cheaper CPUs as a gaming bottleneck.
Also below £260 at every tier the AMD graphics card is the best value. In theory they should be wiping out the opposition as there is no Nvidia card that can compete with the 290 at £200, or the 280/285 at £150 (until 960s get cheaper).
AMDs media skills are awful though they do seem to use forums like this better than Nvidia. That said AMD need to have a much better relationship with developers and with both tech and gaming press.
However despite all this AMD do seem to almost be under performing because they are AMD and the very name itself is tainted with failure now, they are uncool and it's only the skinflints like me who see past the name and see a bargain.
Maybe AMDs best hope this year is to get their new cards out at Computex, get their products behind the games being pushed at E3 (Fallout 4 especially) and to beat Nvidia to a die shrink.
Also below £260 at every tier the AMD graphics card is the best value. In theory they should be wiping out the opposition as there is no Nvidia card that can compete with the 290 at £200, or the 280/285 at £150 (until 960s get cheaper).
AMDs media skills are awful though they do seem to use forums like this better than Nvidia. That said AMD need to have a much better relationship with developers and with both tech and gaming press.
However despite all this AMD do seem to almost be under performing because they are AMD and the very name itself is tainted with failure now, they are uncool and it's only the skinflints like me who see past the name and see a bargain.
Maybe AMDs best hope this year is to get their new cards out at Computex, get their products behind the games being pushed at E3 (Fallout 4 especially) and to beat Nvidia to a die shrink.
And me, mate. Hard to beat a couple of 2nd hand 290/290Xs for value atm.
Repeating myself for a question that i have given my opinion on many times in the past is not better than me putting facts forwards.
Having to repeat facts is bad enough, repeating my opinions is less of a priority.
Last edited:
Well, I just looked through this thread that asks for suggestions and I can only see your posts picking holes in other posters suggestions, so you have not given your opinion on the topic at hand and merely picked holes in people who have contributed to the discussion. As you seem incapable of actually giving a suggestion to the topic at hand, albeit I asked you twice for your thoughts, I will let this thread carry on and I implore you to not judge people on what they feel would be a good idea to get AMD some market share because at least they are trying to be positive unlike your good self.
Good day and time for me to try some fixes for my current issues.
Caporegime
- Joined
- 18 Oct 2002
- Posts
- 31,187
Ha Ha. I think I will keep my money.Will help them out in buying their products so unless Nvidia change their tune and provide similar performing cards for the same value that might be for a good while. By the way your system will be lower mid-range soon. That's the way it goes in PC components.
Yup, that's the way the cookie crumbles kid
Yup, that's the way the cookie crumbles kid
By the way. Have you ever benched your system. I would like to know how it compares to my lowly system in something like the 3dmark Skydiver benchmark?
As i have said i have given my opinions on the subject before that does not mean im obliged to give them again and neither is that a prerequisite or a requirement to comment on what others have posted in the thread.
And the part about nobody cares about the guidelines while being an opinion is clearly false as hence why AMD sticks to them, so i have a right to correct him whether you like it or not, it was not an attack or a judgment on him it is merely stating a fact AND putting facts straight is contributing and i cant help it if your keep interpreting things the wrong way, its just not my problem.
When you open your own forum then you can decide the rules.
Last edited:
Associate
- Joined
- 31 Oct 2012
- Posts
- 2,243
- Location
- Edinburgh
Absolutely. When you look at things like the titan z vs the 295x2 you see a faster card that costs half as much - OK, an extreme example, but for users to still think nVidia are just better because nVidia is entirely an image problem.
I'm not saying AMD are better either - but no matter how good their products they will not become the known name for the majority of customers without MUCH better marketing.
Having owned both 3770k and 4770k, in a few benchmarks I ran I found the hw chip at 4.2 matched the ivy at 4.5 with sli 670's. From a gaming point, there's no noticeable difference between the two. Or the 4790k for that matter as I've owned a few if theese too. I tend to do some rather daft cpu "upgrades".
Caporegime
- Joined
- 18 Oct 2002
- Posts
- 31,187
Not really, I like to do something radical with my system and actual *play* a few games kiddo
Much better marketing is the key to Nvidia's success as you say. The performance is there just not the value for money+performance.
Not really, I like to do something radical with my system and actual *play* a few games kiddo
Ok. How does it bench in something like Tomb raider? That's a game isn't it.
Caporegime
- Joined
- 18 Oct 2002
- Posts
- 31,187
Note to AMD - don't leave Driver Releases nearly 4 ****ing months!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Caporegime
- Joined
- 18 Oct 2002
- Posts
- 31,187
Ok. How does it bench in something like Tomb raider? That's a game isn't it.
Yup, although I don't own it schoolie!!
Caporegime
- Joined
- 18 Oct 2002
- Posts
- 31,187