Nvidia is "amped" up for a big reveal on May 14

[Rayneofpayne]

Yeah a lot of people forget that AMD is fighting 2 much bigger competitors and that can not be easy especially when they still as a whole make less cash than nVidia alone never mind Intel

Exactly, I know people are impatient and want everything to be good right out the gate from AMD, but they have to plot and use money wisely, it's not easy and despite the ho-hum from them right now it's important they stay on Intel's ***, because honestly that is where the revenue is at right now, it's going to take a while, but for right now they won't be major competition for NVidia, it will come but not instantly, and in all honesty because of that even getting overhyped for RDNA 2 is a bit of a folly, it will be passable but how well it's going to do is based on what AMD can do with what they have allocated GPU side which isn't major compared to what they are doing CPU side.

 

[Shadowboxer]

Keep in mind now they do, thanks to RYzen and how well they are doing with the processor family, still though it's a drop In the bucket to Intel and NVidia and that makes it a challenge for them of the worst kind, they can't give any slack to Intel CPU side but they have to fund R&D into the defunct GPU side to refine a none garbage arch, splitting gaming and workstation arch for the sake of better optimization and performance GCN unfortunately had the downfall of having to cover both sectors, it starts with the hardware development then it's up to programmers for support and to get it used. NVidia just does a better job software side after Vista it made them rethink alot of what they need to focus on. Don't get me wrong NVidias marketing department is the worst and really needs a rethink, but AMD has a long fight ahead of them fighting wars on 2 fronts Lisa Su isn't dumb but she has to make the hard choices to make the company profitable, and honestly it could take a while before they are GPU competitors again.

So AMD have a revenue of billions. How many billions short are they of a decent R&D team?

I’m fed up with this excuse that revenue is holding AMD back. It’s not the case at all.

 

[Rayneofpayne]

So AMD have a revenue of billions. How many billions short are they of a decent R&D team?

I’m fed up with this excuse that revenue is holding AMD back. It’s not the case at all.

Compared to NVidia and Intel? **** man they aren't even close, it's also not an excuse it's a bit of a reality for them, give them time, as long as they stay on Intel's *** and apply pressure they will get there. It's really not as simple as people think it is architectures and lithography are complex beasts if you need a bit of info to read I highly suggest Ian Cutress from anandtech he did some really in depth articles on the subject and he is more than qualified to explain the way it is.