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Patience. You have to learn patience.
I'm disappointed with product availability. If the card isn't ready to be sold then I don't see the point of having such an early official release of the performance of the card along with the price. Seems like last year when the 6970 released there was immediate limited product availability. Makes me think the early release is just to generate some AMD stock sales. Don't like the pricing of the card or the way the release is rolling out so far. I think NVIDIA has a fair shot of beating HD7970 performance.
I hope people are patient and wait for the price to come down or to see how NVIDIA's new 28nm cards compare.
True. AMD just wants to be able to claim they had flagship 28nm silicon in 2011. This is nothing either company hasn't done before, however.
Dave Baumann said:...this is largely driven by the timing relative to the holiday period. With both product shipping now and samples having to go to press pre-Christmas leaving that amount of time was bound to create leaks and some reviews going early; this thread over the last week or so is a testiment to the lack of respect over embargo material given to certain parties, leaving it another 2 weeks would have been a lot worse in that respect.
Well considering AMD said they would release the new card in Q1 2012...
Well thats in 8 days?
Ya well, it's all about hype. I'm sure they would have rather had the card ready for Christmas. However for that, you've got to have it on shelves no later than end of November, and preferably at the beginning. So they couldn't meet that (or rather TSMC couldn't). Next best thing? Hype it around Christmas. Announce it, get everyone buzzing and wanting one after the new year.
Ya well, it's all about hype. I'm sure they would have rather had the card ready for Christmas. However for that, you've got to have it on shelves no later than end of November, and preferably at the beginning. So they couldn't meet that (or rather TSMC couldn't). Next best thing? Hype it around Christmas. Announce it, get everyone buzzing and wanting one after the new year.
How about we stop speculating and read the real reason for the early reviews straight from the horses mouth:
http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1608277&postcount=1971
How about we stop speculating and read the real reason for the early reviews straight from the horses mouth:
http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1608277&postcount=1971
They get slammed for NOT giving out any BD stuff early for reviews. Now they get some cards into reviewers hands two weeks before they promise anything and people are still upset. I don't understand you people.
By no means am I an AMD fanboy in the least (I currently own nothing AMD), but jesus christ, they can't win regardless of what they do with some of you.
I'm disappointed with the price they are asking. The only one I will even consider now is the 7950, but that also depends on the price.
I don't buy that excuse. They did not even have enough cards to send out for crossfire reviews. They clearly wanted to paper launch this early for whatever reason. Otherwise they could have waited to send out cards until they had at least enough to send 2. Which also does not bode well for availability anytime soon.
I'm sure others will be waiting patiently for the 1.5 GB or 3 GB 7950-series cards to come out. Those are pretty good prices.
From what I have read only cards with new GCN architecture will be 79xx cards. All below radeon cards will be rebadged die shrinks of current radeon 69xx architecture which should perform great for low power draw high Performance gaming.
From what I have read only cards with new GCN architecture will be 79xx cards. All below radeon cards will be rebadged die shrinks of current radeon 69xx architecture which should perform great for low power draw high Performance gaming.
that doesn't even make sense.
Without getting unnecessarily deep into the differences between VLIW and non-VLIW (well save that for another time), the difference in the architectures is about what VLIW does poorly for GPU computing purposes, and why a non-VLIW SIMD fixes it. The principal issue is that VLIW is hard to schedule ahead of time and theres no dynamic scheduling during execution, and as a result the bulk of its weaknesses follow from that. As VLIW5 was a good fit for graphics, it was rather easy to efficiently compile and schedule shaders under those circumstances. With compute this isnt always the case; theres simply a wider range of things going on and its difficult to figure out what instructions will play nicely with each other. Only a handful of tasks such as brute force hashing thrive under this architecture.
They get slammed for NOT giving out any BD stuff early for reviews. Now they get some cards into reviewers hands two weeks before they promise anything and people are still upset. I don't understand you people.
By no means am I an AMD fanboy in the least (I currently own nothing AMD), but jesus christ, they can't win regardless of what they do with some of you.