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If he comes back, from his 'Gardening Leave'
He's still needed so no worries there.
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If he comes back, from his 'Gardening Leave'
He's still needed so no worries there.
Define "true potential". If it is speed and hardcore performance, any chip will perform faster with more cooling. Just how physics work. The true potential(in terms of speed vs. thermals vs. power consumption) of Vega lies in tweaking the settings of your Wattman profile. Just wait for AIB to have a fair comparison with any 1080. The partners will be able to tweak the card based on their cooling. First signs of Asus Strix are promising
Unless he doesn't mind being demoted.
The Strix isn't even overclocked, so you might as well say its just a reference card with a different cooler, its a fail, so looking like the custom cards, will just be able to hold the stock clock/boost clock better, as they have a better cooler, big deal.
We've also heard nothing from other AIBs about custom cards, nothing from Sapphire about a Tri-X, no Gigabyte Aourus etc..., all we know is, Asus are doing a reference clocked card with a Strix cooler, thats going to be even more expensive than the ref card, due to the Asus TAX.
He is not on holiday, he had a holiday, he is on a leave of absence and the CEO has taken over his job.Boss goes on holiday after a extremely busy year is a non story...
If he was on vacation he would not be replaced by Lisa Su, he would still be available for important calls and meetings.
The 3870? That was not a good card. Better than the HD2900 (what wasn't?) but it picked up from the 4870 onward (still have that 512MB beauty somewhere).
The problem is the Radeon 6970 2gb, 7970 and 290x were all good cards. AMD lost market share under these cards so it's not just Hardware that's the problem as arguably the 7970 and 290x were better hardware to what Nvidia had at the time especially as time went on. Both these cards also offered 1gb more Vram than the competition. The 3870/x2 were not great cards either. I owned a 3870 and would much rather have had a 8800gt for similar money but it was sold out and i needed a card asap.
He's done some amazing PR.... for nVidiaWhen they take the PR work he's done into consideration I doubt he'll have a choice.
If he comes back, from his 'Gardening Leave'
He's coming to plough your furrow.
Isn't the liquid cooled version £800?
Thats not really a no brainer as it pushes a 1080ti + gsync monitor in to the same bracket as selling a freesync monitor and not bothering with AMD
Anyone else done this when going on holiday from work ?, i know i havn't
Yep same herePaid £640 for my AIO from OCUK, as did many on this forum
Wont be long before we find out what his new role will be.
King Dingaling
RTG head, Raja Koduri has also taken a sabbatical till early 2018
Not coming back until early 2018 now, according to WCCF.
http://wccftech.com/amd-navi-gpu-launching-siggraph-2018-monolithic-mcm-die-yields-explored/