Raja Koduri has not lived up to expectations and has failed to develop the AMD RX Vega as requested and these have become a true failure, without precedent.
The situation around the AMD RX Vega is already bordering on ridiculous for AMD. These graphics cards have been delayed on several occasions, which, accumulate in the retailers, who do not give out, due to three reasons: they are much more expensive than their direct competitors, the NVIDIA GTX 1080; its performance is equal to or lower than that of the NVIDIA GTX 1080 and finally, consumption is the fundamental factor why these graphics cards have no output, because among other things, they require more powerful power supplies, which make the final equipment more expensive.
Not only are these the current problems, there is also another problem, there are no customized models and at the moment, they are not expected, indeed, we may not find more than the ASUS model, which has already been analyzed in several cases, but which There is no hit the market and it seems simply a marketing gimmick. MSI, Gigabyte, Sapphire or PowerColor, other manufacturers that work with AMD, have not given data on the possible arrival of these graphics cards and the apparent reason is that the GPUs are not arriving to carry out the final assembly.
It should be noted that AMD has changed the assembly company for the AMD RX Vega GPUs, because there have been significant problems, including distributing two types of GPUs with a different assembler finish. As it has been rumored, the assembler used a poor process, which would be causing the finding of two types of Vega GPUs on the market. All of this brings me to the heart of the question: Who pays for this huge botch?
Some will think that this is an attack against AMD, but make no mistake, I am glad that AMD has put Intel in trouble, but in the graphics market AMD does not put NVIDIA in trouble, who has delayed the Volta and has been left over with the GTX 1070 Ti. AMD's problems are not only in Vega, they are in the lack of Polaris stock due to the mining of cryptocurrencies. AMD is being overcome on all fronts and there is a certain weakness on the part of the company or should I say, the incompetence of Raja Koduri?
Raja Koduri since the beginning of September is not working at AMD, he is in a kind of limbo that will end in mid-December, possibly. This makes me think that AMD has given it some time, perhaps, to find a new company to work for or to find an ingenious solution to this problem. The only reality is that, as the head of the graphics card segment, he should be fired for this botch, since his mission was to refloat AMD in the graphics market and for this they have mortgaged time and the RX 400 Series and RX 500 Series, these The latter a rehash of the former, whose mission was to save time for Vega's problems, because AMD knew about them and the manufacturers that work with AMD knew about it.
The false information that the AMD RX Vega would mine Ethereum at 70-100MH / s, but at the end of that nothing, they reach 40MH / s making a thousand stories, modifying frequencies, touching the Vcore to minimally control consumption and installing the drivers of AMD for cryptocurrency mining. There are many factors that make me question the worth of Raja Koduri, who I do not doubt that he has worked hard and has done everything he could, but it is clear that he has failed in his mission. Will he remain at AMD or will he be fired?
To mine they are buying them for the Monero issue they reach 2000 H / s, for other currencies they leave a lot to be desired given that Ethereum does not have much left and the rest of the Etrash-based currencies do not have much value. In addition, the possible Bitcoin Gold currency will go with Equihash, which this currency has many doubts (possible scam). Regarding firing Raja, it is something that will not help solve the problems from today to tomorrow. Therefore, what Amd should do is continue working on optimizing the drivers for both gamers and professionals or miners. One thing that I agree with the author of the article is that the model that Asus released was more advertising than anything else, given that it is very strange that the official partners have not even shown the official custom model.
It would be good to know how many reculses he had within reach. to see if it was due to lack of talent or bad ideas
What a bad wave that at this point they cannot develop a video card as it MUST, in the case like the Radeon HD7970 or even the HD7870 which are QUALITY video cards and the latest from the company that really went big. ... I HOPE SOME DAY TO SEE SOMETHING LIKE THIS AGAIN.
You don't have to be so dramatic. They consume a lot, yes, but in less than two months we will have in the market the RX Vega with replacement and custom versions. It's a matter of time. They have just had problems with the assembly company, which has delayed the launch, but they will come. They will arrive, and they will compete with Nvidia, giving more performance than the 1080 on many occasions and for less money. Or do you think the 1070ti is for mining? It will go out in November in Las Vega. What AMD is not going to do is let a new generation of graphics cards pass by, plain and simple. They are simply being delayed. The rest is bullshit against AMD that is being thrown on the Internet. Or is it that nobody remembers the R9? I have the 290, which consumed a lot and performed like a 770. To this day, it beats the 780ti in many games.
You forget that at CES 2017, NVIDIA will present the Voltas, which will destroy the Vega and not by little.
hahaha, I notice some fanboysm in your comment
I notice that your comment matters little to me.
I've read about it, that over time, amd drivers mature quite a bit and improve the performance of the cards. Clear example your R9 290.
It's really unfortunate, the only thing I can think of that they could do is sell them without profit to recover the capital, and definitely go for the following architecture
"They are out of stock of Pascal" since when does AMD manufacture Nvidia graphics cards
The writer of this article should be fired for wanting to pressure, creating a current of opinion, a company that is the one that must make its own decisions ???… without further comments, greetings.
Will you upload your content then to maintain the web? Speaking without knowing or from the sidelines is very nice. Instead of saying such simplicity, you could state the reasons or explain where I am wrong.
You are right that my comment was simplistic. You also have it in the fact that it is easier to speak from the sidelines. It is correct that you raise the opinion article, but in my humble opinion I do not see any reason to create controversy around the fact of firing someone for the mere fact that someone thinks that they did not meet their expectations. I think it would be more interesting to ask questions that had to do with the possible improvements of the Vega architecture, or what are the defects that have made this architecture not better. My apologies if you felt offended, as my intention was constructive about your approach.