AMD's new graphics engineer pledges yearly GPU releases to make PCs fun again

Satchfanuk · 8 Jun 2018 at 19:18

Head of RTG at AMD, David Wang, says he aims to bring a new GPU to market every year.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/327...early-gpu-releases-to-make-pcs-fun-again.html

Lets see if he can get RTG working well enough to deliver on this commitment.

Freddie1980 · 8 Jun 2018 at 19:31

They normally do release new graphics cards each year even of they use the same GPU. 2018 is probably the first year when we won't have anything new to get excited about from AMD and maybe Nvidia.

JediFragger · 8 Jun 2018 at 19:37

'aims'

Bet he includes rebranding in this 'promise' too.

Zeed · 8 Jun 2018 at 19:40

Ye they overclock 3 year old 480 name it 680 jobs a gut un haha

iBSOD · 8 Jun 2018 at 20:03

Could easily stretch out to 4 years desktop->mobile->desktop rebadge->mobile rebadge

jigger · 8 Jun 2018 at 20:52

Starting what year.

AETAaAS · 8 Jun 2018 at 21:35

If it's regular substantial releases, that would be a great thing.

V F · 8 Jun 2018 at 23:11

"Fun again" Who makes up this stuff? Honestly do people get fun out of hardware? The fun is in games. There is no feelings to hardware.

Even when you upgrade regularly, there is no feelings. You make your fun through gaming experiences.

Hotwired · 8 Jun 2018 at 23:16

V F said:
"Fun again" Who makes up this stuff? Honestly do people get fun out of hardware? The fun is in games. There is no feelings to hardware.

Even when you upgrade regularly, there is no feelings. You make your fun through gaming experiences.

Have you never been in here when there's new hardware.

There's loads of entertainment value in new releases.

Value for money for those getting out wallets probably not but all paid entertainment is burning money anyway.

Satchfanuk · 8 Jun 2018 at 23:22

V F said:
"Fun again" Who makes up this stuff? Honestly do people get fun out of hardware? The fun is in games. There is no feelings to hardware.

Even when you upgrade regularly, there is no feelings. You make your fun through gaming experiences.

Maybe he was referring to the employees of RTG and the fun they will get through renewed drive and direction within the company to innovate

nashathedog · 8 Jun 2018 at 23:30

jigger said:
Starting what year.

That was my first thought as well.

V F · 8 Jun 2018 at 23:44

Hotwired said:
Have you never been in here when there's new hardware.

There's loads of entertainment value in new releases.

Value for money for those getting out wallets probably not but all paid entertainment is burning money anyway.

I usually roll my eyes and exit. It was a bit more exciting 10 - 15 years ago. Everything else feels the same old.

fs123 · 9 Jun 2018 at 11:42

With Navi expected to be all about scalability I think they may start releasing mid range gpu's one year and then follow up with a high end part a year later. That would be similar to Nvidia's releases.
Expect single chip Navi first and then a dual/triple chip solutions regularly.

Spyhop · 9 Jun 2018 at 13:40

AMD are going to win so much that they'll get tired of winning!

nomadd · 9 Jun 2018 at 14:15

Satchfanuk said:
Head of RTG at AMD, David Wang, says he aims to bring a new GPU to market every year.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/327...early-gpu-releases-to-make-pcs-fun-again.html

Lets see if he can get RTG working well enough to deliver on this commitment.

Meanwhile, they concentrate purely on getting Zen2 and Navi into the PS5.

At which point no one will care about vastly overpriced PCs for gaming.

mmj_uk · 9 Jun 2018 at 15:11

I'm not sure that's particularly good news unless GPU prices come crashing down.

MasterOC · 10 Jun 2018 at 08:44

nomadd said:
At which point no one will care about vastly overpriced PCs for gaming.

Trying to sense the sarcasm here but unsure

nomadd · 10 Jun 2018 at 09:56

MasterOC said:
Trying to sense the sarcasm here but unsure

No, I was genuine in my sentiments.

And that's a rare commodity on these forums.

Phate · 10 Jun 2018 at 10:09

The idea of AMD upping their game to give "proper" competition to Nvidia with staggered yearly releases to me, is exciting. Right now if you want a low-mid range card they're pretty good but mid-high and high end, not so much. As far as my understanding of it currently goes anyway (only recently getting back into hardware, feel free to correct me)

Competition in all markets is exciting. The introduction of Ryzen has seen knee-jerk reactions from Intel and spiced up the CPU market now which only results in a better price and hardware for us, the consumers.

jigger · 10 Jun 2018 at 11:34

Phate said:
The idea of AMD upping their game to give "proper" competition to Nvidia with staggered yearly releases to me, is exciting. Right now if you want a low-mid range card they're pretty good but mid-high and high end, not so much. As far as my understanding of it currently goes anyway (only recently getting back into hardware, feel free to correct me)

Competition in all markets is exciting. The introduction of Ryzen has seen knee-jerk reactions from Intel and spiced up the CPU market now which only results in a better price and hardware for us, the consumers.

AMD are doing fine upto the Vega 56 and cheapest 64, although all the different types of 64 are confusing right now. After about £600 you are better looking at Nvidia.

The issue is although AMD are pretty competitive and have an edge on the technology front the Nvidia cards AMD are competing with are acient by graphics card terms.