Since the 90s, Intel and Nvidia have "cheated" a lot - at the expense of reasonably "fair" competition. I don't see the point in being loyal to one brand.įor me, its politics.
They're fighting a two front war against two LARGER opponents who each are fighting only one!
They could've proceeded to compete with Intel with embedded video just the same and wouldn't have had to worry about competing with nvidia too. My armchair analyst theory is the ATI buyout was a mistake. People were wanting and hoping for a Boeing/Airbus style duopoly, instead they lost market share to Intel they didn't have to lose and have been forced to compete with them and nvidia by lowering their prices. Is it bad luck? Bad leaders? Bad investments? A little of everything? There's no doubt that after the inroads AMD made 10 years ago no one thought they'd be where they are now. Part of the problem is you need to be part fortune teller WRT figuring out what tech will mature, where to invest to ensure that it does, when it will, what the competition will do (in their case, both Intel and nvidia who to date are still largely not stepping on each other's toes with nvidia's exit from the chipset market and Intel's far slower GPU advances than was assumed years back). Or did the management say, nope, move up Y to 2015 and push back X.then reverse that decision when it was clear Y wouldn't make it.then reverse it again when X also suffered setbacks while Y was progressing?
I don't know if AMD's roadmap is being thwarted by technical issues or leadership issues.ĭid they decide they're going to do X and Y in 20, only to find out X will take till 2016, but it won't be the X they really wanted, more like 3/4 X, and Y is closer to 2018? The Flagship GPUs coming up, with use of HBM stacked memory modules, will likely bring most AM3+ platforms to its knees due to dated I/O. My next build was to continue to be AMD, CPU, GPU etc.īut Right now it's not looking good future wise. I can only continue to use PCIe 2.0 and DDR3 for so much longer, as DDR4 and PCIe3.0 become more mainstream on every other platform.Īlong with chipset features becoming more and more outdated on the 990 Series. The new CPU was supposed to be out in 2016, yet we have NO preliminary architecture schematics, no actual hard data, nothing on the chipset and AMD is still losing important staff members groups at a time.Įven with the APU contracts for MS, Sony, And Others for Consoles, theres no sign of a High End Gaming CPU in the future yet. My concern is with the new CEO and plan to dump the remainder of the Modulized CPU design to return to Serialized CPUs, etc. (there are rumors regarding type etc, I'll gather up some data). If you intend to play on the Ultra High setting and really want to enjoy the experience to the fullest the development team recommends:ģ.0GHz Intel CPU, 1GB of RAM, and an NVIDIA 6600 or 6800 Ultra or 7800 GT or GTX.Rather than continuing my trend of getting into it in other peoples build thread, I'll make a specific thread.Ĭurrently AMD is planning a new CPU for 2016. * Broadband connection for online play with 3 or more players. * 56.6 Kbps or better modem for 1v1 online play.
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