The Rise, Fall and Revival of AMD

[neeyik]

I had a board from another company, called, IIRC, "The Six Pack", which came in the form of a 4MB ram drive on my PC/XT.

Hate to think how much that cost back then

 

[Endymio]

Hate to think how much that cost back then

Luckily my employer was buying ... allowing simulations to run several times faster made it well worth the cost.

 

[neeyik]

Luckily my employer was buying ... allowing simulations to run several times faster made it well worth the cost.

Nice employer. At a similar period in time, I had to do 1000 ray optics simulations with just 128 kB - 'speed' wasn't really a good word for describing any element of the process...

 

[TheAverageJoe09]

You ever try to put a new engine in an old car? There's plenty of bottlenecks.

Same thing applies to PC. If I buy a new PC, I want a new motherboard that is designed to handle it.

You are wrong. If you have a 400 series board or even 300 series (excluding A320) you will get a massive performance boost upgrading to a newer 3000 CPU. Sure, it will perform not as good as a system with an X570 board but you will still get very good performance.

 

[systemBuilder]

The article is incorrect about the IBM PC. The 8088 was a version of the 8086 with an 8-bit bus allowing cost-reduced memory. The 8088 was the CPU used in the IBM PC. Incorrect on both counts. It was not an improvement on the 8086 because it was much slower.

 

[scavengerspc]

While I'm not interested in buying their CPU or GPU for my own self, I must say that at $50 (currently) their stock is still a strong buy and I see considerable growth in the future for them.

Just goes to show what little you know and knew back then. Only 9 months later and the stock is just shy of $80 so you..........Wait.

Good call!

 

[Dimitrios]

I have been using AMD cards exclusively since the Radeon R9 280X and I have been happy with them but the black screen issue has been really going on for many many years and trust me I am not some noob, currently I am using Radeon VII since 07.03.2019 and its been ok for most of that time but I did have the issue with fan profiles not working properly, OC profiles resetting every time I turn the computer on, December drivers brought the black screen in such numbers that I was ready to pull my hair out and now I can't OC my GPU core because if I touch it the clock wont go past 1640Mhz when "at stock" it runs on average at 1770Mhz so yeah not everyone who says there are drivers issues is nVidia fan who never used a Radeon GPU and the past few months even make me think of switching to nVidia next time around and I hate that company just as much as I have Intel

As a AMD fanboy I have this same exact issue lol!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[pildorman321]

" there are a few areas within AMD that could use genuine improvement"

Yes. GPU area. Genuinely reduce the power consumption. Genuinely increase GPU availability. Genuinely improve ray tracing performance. dlss alternatives. See the any pattern? Get yr sit together GPU guys!

 

[punctualturn]

Somehow I missed this excellent article when it was originally posted.

Magnificent jobs, guys!

Great to see the man, the legend Jim Keller and of course, our holy lady Dr Lisa Su and how their hard work is paying off.

If only they could increase production, so their customers could stop waiting for their products, specially the gpus.

 

[m3diapers]

They may fall again if they keep selling half-assed products

 

[Adi6293]

As a AMD fanboy I have this same exact issue lol!!!!!!!!!!!

I did end up switching to nVidia and got a 3080, no driver issues at all