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Isn't GTX770 practically just as fast as 7970GHz and cheaper? It uses less power to boot. The only saving grace of Radeon is overclock-ability but that is pure luck.
And 3 free games
Isn't GTX770 practically just as fast as 7970GHz and cheaper? It uses less power to boot. The only saving grace of Radeon is overclock-ability but that is pure luck.
Isn't it telling that AMD has to give away $TEXAS worth of games and still the 670 outsold the 7950 and 7970 combined while being on the market for a smaller amount of time?
Isn't it telling that AMD has to give away $TEXAS worth of games and still the 670 outsold the 7950 and 7970 combined while being on the market for a smaller amount of time?
Yes, it tells us how ignorant of tech most of humanity is.
AMD always tried to offer a better value propositions in GPU, no? The only time they didn't do that, 7000 series, they lost market share big time. So instead of lowering prices, they are offering games for free. Different tactics, same results.
AMD gained discrete graphics market share last quarter, they didn't lose market share.
If you bothered to check last quarter numbers, why didn't you bother to check last year numbers?
Why not check since they started Never Settle Reloaded? AMD has gained market share on desktop since they started bundling the newest games.
I thought this was the CPU forum.
CPUs are old gear , it s mainly APUs now...
If you bothered to check last quarter numbers, why didn't you bother to check last year numbers?
Yeah, where's our APU forum? The mainstream line from both companies is now an APU.
And still it was an unfinished product, look how much better the Vishera is with just minor tweaks.
Dont Judge the architecture by the end-product, if you had the Vishera in 2011(against SandyBridge) then nobody would be talking about a failure today.
It's that old story of a new architecture on a new process. It doesn't work and Bulldozer was yet more proof of it.
AMD always tried to offer a better value propositions in GPU, no? The only time they didn't do that, 7000 series, they lost market share big time. So instead of lowering prices, they are offering games for free. Different tactics, same results.
32nm was not a new process, Llano preceded Bulldozer.
But only by 4 months and that was due to numerous BD delays. Anyway the point being 32nm was in bad shape at the start, and BD itself was bad (not to mention the wrong part). All of it conspired to make it an awful chip.
You should of bought a dual core opteron and overclocked it and saved 40-50%. For some reason the x2s were ridiculously priced but the opterons carried a much lower clock speed but were able to catch up by increasing the FSB... They were selling those OEM cpus dirt cheap!
Andrew Feldman, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of AMDs server division made some interesting comments about how AMD views Bulldozer in retrospect:
AMD bridges road to ARM with new low-power x86 server chips | PCWorld
I honestly didn't expect that. How goes the saying? A fault confessed is half redressed. I like the honesty, it's truly refreshing and gives me hope that AMD is on the right track.