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Nvidia PWNing all and sundry
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Won't happen, AMD pulled out of the PC gaming card market.
The only hope is that their comments that they are investing more cash into RTG means they can actually diversify products, right now Vega is a compute card / datacenter card with gaming drivers.
Hopefully they can start to build gaming orientated cards again as well as the current Vega type cards.
Vega is a horrible gaming card at the price you have to pay for it, not only in actual monies but in terms of how far behind Nvidias cards it is in overall balance, Nvidia cards are currently cheaper to run, produce less heat etc and overclock very well and deliver great out of the box performance, as much as it pains to say me.
AMD need 2 cards again, one for the Datacenter / Compute market and one dedicated gaming card, not the jack of all master of none Vega offerings we have now.
Strong Ryzen sales has helped them enormously, and i would imagine the new APU sales will also sell by the truckload, this should hopefully stuff enough cash in their pockets they can put more into R&D in RTG to bring out some worthy gaming cards.
In all honesty they need a Ryzen moment in the GPU sector.
Vega is anything but a compute card. it has 16:1 FP64 performance
There is supposedly a dedicated compute version of Vega coming out this year that has the FP64 cores added back in. Current Vega is the gaming card.
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Looks to be more an attempt at AMD to break into deep learning as a budget offering to GP100 based cards:
https://videocardz.com/64677/amd-an...erator-radeon-instinct-mi25-for-deep-learning
https://instinct.radeon.com/en/exploring-amd-vega-deep-learning/
The first big Vega based products were announced for deep learning before the Pro and gaming versions.
It seems to have much higher FP16 compute than previous AMD cards,and significantly higher than the GP102.
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HP Enterprise for example advertise them:
https://www.hpe.com/uk/en/product-c...nct-mi25-graphics-accelerator.1010415423.html
Baidu bought them together with Nvidia equivalents for their AI initiative:
https://datacenternews.asia/story/baidu-deploy-amds-radeon-instinct-gpus-its-data-centers/
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-baidu-announce-partnership-to-accelerate-ai
The main issue is Nvidia has a giant lead,so I can see AMD only getting sales by bundling them with Epyc based platforms as a package.
The issue is Intel still sells more CPUs in that market.
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You forgot the video!!
At this point if you follow the video,Nvidia has almost double the revenue of AMD as a whole.
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$400 million from mining over the same period last year!!
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How can they say for sure how much they made from mining?
Surely they don't know what every single card they've sold is being used for?
Unless they have been selling directly to known miners?
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I don't recall AMD making any such assertion, maybe you can tell us where they have said they quit the PC gaming card market?
They only account for their mining specific cards. Which are headless, and sold directly to miners.
https://www.tweaktown.com/news/6089...p106-090-6gb-mining-card-costs-389/index.html
They need a completely new GPU arch; and they need the money to pour into that.
I think it's another 3-4 years at least because we can get that; and only if the next few Zen processor lines are successful.
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That card isn't made by nVidia though. Like every other partner they would have bought a bucket of chips from nVidia and then stuck those on all sorts of cards.
Unless they are reporting back on what kind of cards they are selling, how would nVidia know? It's just chip sales to nVidia at the end of the day.
Someone is clearly reporting it back; otherwise there's no way of knowing.Since NVIDIA are directly selling their GPUs to a partner that focuses solely on mining cards; it's rather easy to record those.
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Hmmm, I'm not convinced lol. I think someone has just stuck a figure on it that sounded good, probably in an attempt to show they made more than the competition to miners.
Not that it matters where the sales come from, money is money, just hate seeing random figures (or statements and opinions) thrown around as fact.
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They're now doing cards for VR, Compute, Deep Learning etc..., their last gaming card was the Fury (i think).
Was a good decision imo, as Nvidia were just killing them, they hardly had a share of the market at the end, just too far ahead of them now, real shame
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Hmmm, I'm not convinced lol. I think someone has just stuck a figure on it that sounded good, probably in an attempt to show they made more than the competition to miners.
Not that it matters where the sales come from, money is money, just hate seeing random figures (or statements and opinions) thrown around as fact.
Are you the Gavin87 of Nvidia?
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Are you the Gavin87 of Nvidia?
Sorry, I don't get the reference. Who is Gavin87 and how does my question relate to this person?
Just jesting fella. Gavin is vehemently anti AMD but on the INTEL side of things. He can't stand AdoredTV and Jim from Adored due to his INTEL loyalties. It was a bit tongue in cheek for you and Nvidia. Again just jesting
