The GPU Vendor Bias Admission Thread

[Zodiark1593]

Semicustom is. CPU revenue for PC has dwindles, so as dGPU. Semi-custom using the little Jaguar cores and a ~HD7870 is literally the only reason AMD is not bankrupt at this point.

As I predicted in 2011, their APU was a perfect match for a game console. If what you say is true, then perhaps good enough that AMD may have been able to get a bit of a premium out of them vs multi-chip solutions that require more expensive cooling solutions and motherboards.

 

[DaveSimmons]

But let me ask this:

Who here wants AMD to go under? Nobody should. The only way us consumers have fair prices is competition. AMD has been living on the edge for quite some time. A lot of us on this forum are aware of this and have been praying for them. I certainly want AMD around, but just as much as I want NV and Intel around.

Not me!

We've seen how intel has stopped offering much in the way of performance gains once AMD CPUs stopped competing. I'm still using an i5-2500 since they've failed to offer enough of a performance increase to make replacing it worthwhile.

If AMD goes under I expect the same laziness and near-stagnation from nvidia.

 

[RampantAndroid]

For video, I don't care if AMD sticks around. If they do start to go under, I hope they spin ATI back off again though...

 

[Kenmitch]

For video, I don't care if AMD sticks around. If they do start to go under, I hope they spin ATI back off again though...

Silly thing to say other than the spin off part.

 

[railven]

Silly thing to say other than the spin off part.

If AMD spins off RTG into it's own company, I get the feeling a lot of people wouldn't care much if AMD CPUs division flounders.

Have you seen the CPU Bias thread? Even people who prefer AMD won't give them money, imagine if Zen is a flop and RTG gets spun off.

 

[Kenmitch]

If AMD spins off RTG into it's own company, I get the feeling a lot of people wouldn't care much if AMD CPUs division flounders.

Have you seen the CPU Bias thread? Even people who prefer AMD won't give them money, imagine if Zen is a flop and RTG gets spun off.

I guess.

As far as ZEN goes it's too early to tell. Could be a hit in one market and a failure in another....One of those time will tell in the end things.

 

[railven]

I guess.

As far as ZEN goes it's too early to tell. Could be a hit in one market and a failure in another....One of those time will tell in the end things.

You should go say that over in the CPU division. As far as expectations go, Zen has already won.

 

[Kenmitch]

You should go say that over in the CPU division. As far as expectations go, Zen has already won.

No thanks! I can't even keep score on the Red vs Green battle in this sub-forum. I lost count a long time ago. The constant shifting of the goal post makes it impossible to calculate....Seems silly it's on wheels in the cyber world.

 

[Blitzvogel]

I'll admit to being an AMD fanboy but I had to go with an Intel CPU last year. I'm still rocking AMD desktop GPUs though, but past laptops I've had were Nvidia-GPU'ed because they are just far more ubiquitous.

Been pondering building gaming PCs for sale on eBay as a sort of hobby business, and I've concluded that ultimately it would be a better business decision to use Nvidia graphics cards. They are more recognizable to more casual gamers in both the PC and console world, more efficient, and Nvidia's drivers are better and more timely than AMD's as big new games release. Ultimately I got to consider customer satisfaction if I decide to dive into that kind of business, and right now AMD is a no-go. I hate Gameworks like anyone else though and I'm hoping for Polaris to be an amazing game changer for AMD.

 

[Maverick177]

I became a nvidia cult follower during the 8600GT and 8800Ultra era, switched side after Fermi and have been an AMD user ever since. I've never used their desktop CPUs, although all my laptops so far have been APUs based.

 

[fleshconsumed]

Hard to say if I'm really biased to one brand or another. I typically buy the "best" product with best being more than just fastest. nVidia has the fastest product right now, however they've been price gouging for the past 5 years. I simply can't justify the kind of dough nVidia is asking for their cards when AMD has much better performance to price ratio. So my last two cards have been AMD because they provide an unbeatable value in the current video card market. My last card was 7950, now it's R9-290.

 

[RampantAndroid]

Silly thing to say other than the spin off part.

I said with reference to video - I did not mention the CPU division. What I'm saying is that I have no loyalty to a brand, and whether it's AMD or ATI, I want them to exist as a major player.