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The tone [of AMDs response] suggests an oversight on the part of the AIBs. And AMD in the statement said We [AMD] will remedy the situation in partnership with AIBs/retailers. Throwing the AIBs under the bus would be something along the lines of saying that AIBs/retailers/etc were intentionally...

By demonstrating such tactics, I mean specifically blaming or burning bridges with AIBs/retailers/etc like AMD's primary competitors in the CPU + GPU space have done on multiple occasions, not the segmenting of similar cards with slightly cut down specs.

The deception or fault lies with the AIBs + retailers in not disclosing the difference in technical specs of these cards whether they were labelled as 560D or not. Of course AMD will take the heat on this issue with their released statement, both because it would be economically foolish to call...

Anandtech (as well as Tom's HG + Others) is a Purch Media owned outlet of which Intel and nVidia are clients. I don't have to read the AT story to know it will be pro their clients and anti AMD as a result, facts be damned in many cases. These ARE 560D cards that either the AIBs and/or...

These are simply the 560D cards that were supposedly released for the China-only markets. AMD announced this in July of 2017. Looks like (some?) AIBs chose not to label/advertise them as such, and then the anti-AMD brigade simply shouted from the rooftops that AMD is attempting to swindle or...

And the IDF is losing it's collective ever-FUD-ing + spinning minds in the sisyphean mission with which they are tasked. :D Great job, AMD.

The R7 desktop parts offer the analagous comparison here. Consider the mobile 4C+8T APU part the 1700. Same core + thread count as the 1700X & 1800X with lower base/turbo clocks + less GPU CUs to fit into the lower TDP. Then the desktop 4C+8T APUs would be the 1700X & 1800X in this...

Unlikely. The G in that case would mean the 2700G has a higher (Desktop-level) TDP, so higher CPU + GPU base/turbo/core clocks and/or higher GPU CU count would be expected in those (DT) APU parts versus the mobile APU offerings, rather than anything beyond 4C+8T. At least that seems the logical...

As the image above shows of the AM4 naming scheme, the 7 (in 2700) in the alleged Ryzen 7 2700U leak simply denotes that it would be the Enthusiast-level (in performance) part in the mobile APU product stack, not that it would have the same core+thread count as it's AM4 desktop-counterpart...

RE: Vega-specific game engine optimizations/patches A few more thoughts. AMD themselves (the recent Chris Hook interview with [H]) have stated that Vega is late. What if although not yet publicly-disclosed, some of the major game-engine devs were ready with some of their Vega-specific...

Or it could mean that any Vega-specific optimizations/patches [game engine/dev-side or otherwise] simply won't be disclosed until they are released and/or available to the gaming public.

RMA a perfectly functioning MoBo for a nearly microscopic cosmetic blemish? 100% No, IMO. RMA a GPU for coil whine? That would be a personal choice as we all have different hearing and respond to frequency anomalies/aggravations in our own individual ways.

AMD appears to be selling significant volume of desktop Ryzens. Based on the rumored cost per [$50-60 per for Ryzen then X2 for Threadripper and X4 for Epyc] Zeppelin to manufacture/test/package them, coupled with the rumored [Over 80%, with 95% or more of produced chips per wafer capable of...

Non-issue, IMO. Looking at the following image of Threadripper, one can see that on each "side" of the package there are two rounded indentions close together with a third further down. Now looking at the socket area of the X399 Mobo pictured here, one can see the corresponding pairs of...

1. Quite certain Intel had no intention of bringing the higher core counts of X299 to the desktop/HEDT consumer space AT ALL at least not for YEARS. So, IMO, it's not correct to say X299 has been delayed to 2018 onward, but probably more accurate to say it's being pulled FORWARD as a response to...