AMD is unable to present the AMD RX Vega for it is not known what reason, but if it launches the Frontier Edition for the professional sector and NVIDIA seems to be more in other markets, before the gaming market.
Gaming fans, you are irrelevant. No, they are not my words, well, actually yes, but it is what I interpret in light of the latest information or rumors regarding the two great graphics chips, such as AMD and the delay of the AMD RX Vega and NVIDIA with the Volta lag for gaming. Today, it does not matter one or the other, it seems that both have lost interest in the gaming sector and are content to get refried, while they allocate their star products to other more lucrative tasks. The gamer sector loses weight compared to server systems, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, autonomous cars, Workstations and other specialized equipment.
A few days ago the rumor was known that NVIDIA would be thinking of relegating Volta indeterminately. NVIDIA would be thinking of Volta as a solution for the professional segment, only for now, therefore there would be no Volta graphics cards this year, we should initially wait until next year to see them on the market, but without dates and without data, as always . It seems that AMD does not want to be left behind and after announcing for the fourth or fifth time this year, that they would present the AMD RX Vega, the official announcement of the event arrives, specifically the AMD Capsaicin SIGGRAPH 2017Within the SIGGRAPH 2017 event, we find ourselves, that of Vega for gaming, nothing at all.
I do not know what you will think, but NVIDIA has its certain logic, since in the face of AMD's inability to launch a new product, NVIDIA saves it for next year and could launch some bridge graphics, with 12nm Pascal manufactured by TSMC and with GDDR5X memories. Saving Volta for next year makes sense, because the HMB2s will be significantly cheaper and possibly more powerful. Be that as it may, I am not at all in favor of refried, as I have said more than once with the RX 500 Series, which do not make the slightest sense, because for 2-3fps and more consumption, I see a foolish thing to release such a product, as with Kaby Lake and especially the i7 7700K, which is very hot.
I believe that the one who is screwing it up, without brakes and without a filter is AMD in this case. We have been around Vega for almost a year, which if I remember correctly, had to be presented at CES 2017 and nothing, at Capsaicin & Cream, where we saw a shirt carried by Raja Koduri with the Vega logo and thank you, in the AMD investor event, where they announced the Frontier Edition only and at Computex 2017, nothing, absolutely nothing, just the Frontier Edition and little else. It seems that now, in this new event, we will not see this graphics card either and we already inform you, exclusively, that until the end of September, hopefully, these would not reach the market and it is fulfilled and possibly, they will arrive even later, for unknown reasons.
The surprising thing about AMD is that despite losing market share on Steam, it does not seem to care or not having a product ready or well optimized to launch on the market, or its consumption is absurd, or because of the HBM2 they will cost almost as a NVIDIA graphics, they do not give the expected power and so we could be thinking about possibilities until next week, because AMD is dedicated to filtering the rumor that they already present an AMD RX Vega, but in the end, it ends up not being seen.
You often criticize me for being tough on AMD, but I think that's the one to be tough on. Normally, it is tougher and more demanding with the student who has a harder time studying or is a bad student, because they want him to reach his full potential and that happens to me with AMD. NVIDIA does not care what you say, because it can come next week and present ten new graphics cards without a problem, but AMD cannot, for whatever reasons, which are completely irrelevant to me. I demand to AMD that of the maximum, that it puts the batteries. I have no problem admitting that I would never buy an AMD processor or graphics, because I like NVIDIA better and I use GeForce Experience a lot and it seems like a great platform, but I want AMD to present competition, because in the end, that forces NVIDIA to not relaxing, as he is apparently doing by relegating Volta, without a specific date.
I think that it is not that the gaming community is irrelevant, but rather: AMD with problems vega rehash sack of polaris and nvidia thought to get volta (let's do the same as AMD), let's get refried and even more amortize pascal, we have to have Take into account that these companies spend a lot of millions on R & D & I, therefore by slowing down the new architectures many millions are saved, remember that Intel has been making refried for 5 years until AMD released ryzen, therefore without competition for nvidia, This last one, why was I going to compete with myself? What I don't understand is because there are no more COMPANIES GETTING STARTED IN THE WORLD OF GRAPHICS OR PROCESSORS? WHY ARE THERE ONLY 2 COMPANIES IN BOTH SECTORS? THERE ARE 100 TELEPHONE CAR FACTORIES BUT THERE ARE JUST FOR GRAPHICS, WHAT IS THIS DUE FROM? my little brain is unable to understand it ...
Because the licenses to manufacture x86 can only be distributed by Intel, since it is the owner, and it will not let in more competition with how comfortable they are. Ibm or arm will have to come to get alternatives for pc.
And in the graphics section, amd and nvidia amass patents on everything you can think of, and no company would be profitable in the long term if it has to pay a large percentage of the profits in royalties. That's why Intel had contracted patents from nvidia, and it was rumored that now it would contract them with AMD. If by capacity it were, intel would be on par with both in gpus. Look at larrabee with greater power than the titan and firepro of the time in hbc using pentium 3 cores fully parallelizable for any scope including graphics, but to launch it as a gpu 70% of the cost would surely have gone in royalties.
In Intel processors it is the one that sells the x86 and amd licenses, the x64 even though amd gives access to x64 for free, not all applications are x64 but x86 and in GPU in ID there are many problems which is why amd, Nvidia suffers the most invest a lot to get special drivers for each game to get the most out of io while amd brings out universal drivers and they only dedicate themselves to polishing, so after years of drivers they already yield higher percentages while Nvidia squeezes everything from the beginning (amd is raw power and optimizations are small in the long term and Nvidia is underpowered but optimizes to the beast but they have the money to make special drivers for each game)
In GPUs there are several video companies, even Arm or Apple, which already has patents for its own GPU, but in PCs the most relevant are those 2.