Seems like you havent seen tech business in the past 20 yrs. Its nothing new. 20 series had issues from the get go. Other gen series had issues too. So lets not get your panties in a bunch over something that was obviously going to happen. Its new tech afterall. All electronics this happens too, yes AMD too. The smart people dont buy new tech right away, thats what is called a sucker.
Totally agree with you that pre ordering / being a day one buyer is stupid.
As big of an AMD fan I am (well, mostly because I dislike Nvidia and Intel
), AMD's PR and marketing is just sub par 90% of the time. They really need to do something about it because word of mouth is not enough (and an ingame Fortnite teaser is just sad).
Next time he’s better to stay quiet...
Some bargain bin part. Performs about the same as a 5-6 year old Intel i7 quad.
Completely with you. The black screen bug was too far from AMD and the lack of acknowledgement and fix after over a year is enough to put me off for good. It was the final nail in the coffin of years and years of AMD bugs and annoyances. The fact is once AMD have your money they don’t care about you, the drivers are half arsed and the support doesn’t last as long as Nvidia’s.
Weak damage control from AMD.
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From the leaks it's not going to meet all your hype train, don't fanboys ever get tired, what excuses are coming in a month or 2 when it doesn't actually even compete with a 3080?
Wow. You know absolutely nothing.
Maybe because they really don't want to spill the beans yet. When you've been around as long as I have, you realise that EVERY launch is like this and you just get used to it. Getting aggravated and complaining about it won't change it, it will just make your hair fall out sooner. LOL
This isn't what killed ATi's mindshare. What killed ATi's mindshare was the fact that GCN was much better at GPUCompute than nVidia's offerings. Now, that in itself didn't kill ATi's mindshare but the fact that Polaris' power efficiency and GPUCompute performance made it the first choice for miners did. The nVidia competitor to the RX 580 was the GTX 1060, the most popular single card (by a country mile) on Steam.Truth
But even with this lower hype, AMD has always had trouble keeping supply of their larger cards. You can partially blame one-year shortages of the 290X on miners, but AMD's low production targets was also to-blame (they had already seen what happens when you give the HD 5850 to coin miners for $270...it disappears from retail shelves for nearly a year!) They would have known what such a low price card as the 290 would have done to demand (and should have ordered more.)
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The Fury X also suffered from six months of poor availability,
Vega 64 (just a die shrink of the Fury X) was also impossible to find at anywhere near MSRP for its first year...even though the Etherium market crashed just 3 months into the thing's intro.
AMD has never been able to meet the demand for their big boards, and that has always been why NVIDIA massively outsells them in the high-end.
My guess: they didn't want to get stuck with excesses Vega 64 mining stock, like Nvidia did with Pascal...but if you can't take risks, you don't sell enough to make a dent in consumer mind-share.
You don't encourage new buyers when your last four cards were impossible to find...they will not wait.
