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SemiAccurateAMD fishes for hollow headlines with Capsaicin

Arachnotronic

Arachnotronic

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In summary, AMD is carrying on their traditions of worthless ‘events’ designed to hide the truth and keep people from asking questions. Shiny things are tossed around, the tame dance, and metrics about retweets and likes are somehow tallied into successes. Unfortunately the truth and real information are victims here. Did anyone write about how late the duo was, how pointless an AMD VR stamp of approval is, and how much traction an AMD blessed headset will get? Nope. Our apologies to those who wasted a few hours of their lives with another pointless headline grab ‘event’ even if it had a catchy name like Capsaicin. At least we didn’t have to sit through another turkey this time, the last one was scarring enough.
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http://semiaccurate.com/2016/03/16/amd-fishes-hollow-headlines-capsaicin/
 
I love the line about a "pointless headline grab ‘event’ ." S/A loved it so much they wrote a pointless headline grab ‘article’.
 
Radeon Duo Pro specs weren't know, people were saying it would be 12 TFlops and its 16. Thats a huge difference.

Also this card is geared toward Developers hence announcing it at Game DEVELOPERS Conference.
 
And the actual released card is much different than that... Also why do you keep posting angry threads about it? Why do you care so much? 🙂

Edit: Lol you changed the angry faces to winky ones
 
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bacon1 said:
and the actual released card is much different than that... Also why do you keep posting angry threads about it?
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EDIT: To be clear, I don't regularly start threads about AMD's dual Fiji board. You may have me confused with somebody else. Hence the "???"
 
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AMD releases fastest dual GPU card on the planet, with two fastest chips they have - still not enough for a guy running internet webpage.
They showed 30 second "Polaris 10 demo" running Hitman in DX12 mode in 60fps 1440p - still that was enough for me to hold my GPU upgrade to get this card under 349$ after June. If they don't keep that promise and that was not max details... only then I will be mad at them 😀
 
Arachnotronic said:
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Well you edited your post after mine, so no wonder you are confused.

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kondziowy said:
AMD releases fastest dual GPU card on the planet, with two fastest chips they have - still not enough for a guy running internet webpage.
They showed 30 second "Polaris 10 demo" running Hitman in DX12 mode in 60fps 1440p - still that was enough for me to hold my GPU upgrade to get this card under 349$ after June. If they don't keep that promise and that was not max details... only then I will be mad at them 😀
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Did they say that it was running at max details? I recall websites saying that AMD did not disclose, but would appreciate a link either way. Thanks.
 
They didn't say max details, but if it was not max details it would make this demo completly worthless. I think nobody even asked them about that after event...
 
Anyway, my point was, they completely redesigned the card, and it was always meant for VR because, well, CFX/SLI support in most recent games has been garbage. Half the engines don't support it at all, and others have strange issues constantly that Nvidia/Amd have to fix each time they get patched. VR with GPU per Eye (using GameworksVR or LiquidVR) makes sense, as does game development.

The card went from 12 TFLop -> 16 (33% faster), and as you can see, went from a smaller card to larger and now has beefier power capabilities.

Its meant for Developers to use to build VR games or other games, not for users to purchase.
 
I think anandtech ought to have a category for editorials and other opinionated pieces. What is this article doing in VC&G.
 
The funny part to me is that a company known for less efficient and hotter running gpus and especially CPUs would name an event like this after a hot pepper. All Capsaicin makes me think of is the old tv show "Man vs Food" where Adam Richman was eating food so spicy that the chefs had to wear gloves and masks to prepare it and he looked like he was slowly dying as he ate it.
 
frozentundra123456 said:
The funny part to me is that a company known for less efficient and hotter running gpus and especially CPUs would name an event like this after a hot pepper. All Capsaicin makes me think of is the old tv show "Man vs Food" where Adam Richman was eating food so spicy that the chefs had to wear gloves and masks to prepare it and he looked like he was slowly dying as he ate it.
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That show was great and original back then. It spawned a fleet of knock off shows.
 
frozentundra123456 said:
The funny part to me is that a company known for less efficient and hotter running gpus and especially CPUs would name an event like this after a hot pepper. All Capsaicin makes me think of is the old tv show "Man vs Food" where Adam Richman was eating food so spicy that the chefs had to wear gloves and masks to prepare it and he looked like he was slowly dying as he ate it.
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What does "Fermi" have to do with all this?😱
 
I dunno, "hollow" pretty much sums it up nicely.

This should have been the normal PR dump that is handed to sites, instead of the live stream (which was NOT geared toward devs).
 
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