Being the underdog is horrible- All of the good stuff being built around your counterpart. But one can't simply blame others for their own incompetence. I mean, just take a look at AMD. So much hype, yet they fail to deliver. Yes, they got the technology right, they moved to the 14nm FinFET process. They boasted 2.8x performance improvements. Okay, let's applaud. But yet again they failed to do the same thing. They failed to work on the architecture and concentrate on thermal efficiency.
If you don't believe me till now just grab a popcorn and wait for a week. GTX 1060 is around the corner and is about to blow away the hyped RX 480 with 970+ level performance at a 250$ price point with 120 Watt TDP.
Its so unfortunate that AMD does this over and over again. The tale of desktop CPU's and Intel's hypocrisy all began when they stayed ignorant of any architectural development while ramping up clocks. The result was inevitable. Come to the present, while AMD was drowning in the tide of Intel CPU's, the highly anticipated ZEN architecture happened to be a promising keynote. But AMD's Polaris architecture reminds me of nothing but what they have done all along. Ramping up power, Cutting the costs to target a mainstream market and ending up incompetent against the more efficient processors from their counterparts.
Nevertheless, I respect their vision, which is to bring console quality graphics and premium VR to the likes of the common men like us, a task which they have seemingly been able to accomplish. It even occurred to me that this might influence NVidia to lower the prices of their mid-ranger cards. However, in the long run, its difficult to say where the future of AMD is headed. But right now, I am all but disappointed. Because the last thing I want would be to live in a world where there exists a monopoly GPU market.
If you don't believe me till now just grab a popcorn and wait for a week. GTX 1060 is around the corner and is about to blow away the hyped RX 480 with 970+ level performance at a 250$ price point with 120 Watt TDP.
Its so unfortunate that AMD does this over and over again. The tale of desktop CPU's and Intel's hypocrisy all began when they stayed ignorant of any architectural development while ramping up clocks. The result was inevitable. Come to the present, while AMD was drowning in the tide of Intel CPU's, the highly anticipated ZEN architecture happened to be a promising keynote. But AMD's Polaris architecture reminds me of nothing but what they have done all along. Ramping up power, Cutting the costs to target a mainstream market and ending up incompetent against the more efficient processors from their counterparts.
Nevertheless, I respect their vision, which is to bring console quality graphics and premium VR to the likes of the common men like us, a task which they have seemingly been able to accomplish. It even occurred to me that this might influence NVidia to lower the prices of their mid-ranger cards. However, in the long run, its difficult to say where the future of AMD is headed. But right now, I am all but disappointed. Because the last thing I want would be to live in a world where there exists a monopoly GPU market.