AMD are failing, and why I feel bad for them.

[marldorthegreat]

so , AMD just revealed that they made a revenue loss of %4 and it does not look good for Q4. And with the 900 series from Nvidia hitting, AMD is struggling.

 

I have always been un-biased about AMD and Nvidia, but I am starting to feel bad about AMD. for what they do on the VERY limited budget they have, they have brought many innovative ideas and hardware to the table. But for some reason people just reject AMD and just buy an Nvidia GPU, even if the amd card is better in terms of price point, performance and power draw. This confuses me, and AMD has truly innovated over the past 10 years and not may people have given them credit.

 

Good luck to the new CEO and I hope that AMD can revive themselves and compete with Maxwell somehow.

[Shalashaska]

For the war of this thread.

 

[Toddwjp]

AMD are not failing they have reduced there losses massively and they have new stuff coming they just need to sort out power efficiency to get hardware manufactures to use them on more battery powered solutions.

[WyvernAbstracts]

have their share price gone down?

[Tagiau]

Hopefully the new radeon series isn't just a refresh of the current series. Amd needs something to bring them back into the game. Well a new flagship to put them back in the lead. Hopefully they find a way to make more energy efficient gpu's, and they can, and will compete with maxwell and nvidia. But either way, the new releases is just another round in a never ending match.

[WereCat]

Well ... they just invested a lot of money into ZEN architecture didnt they? That may be cause of it?

[TheMcSame]

I smell a war and a lock incoming.

[brownninja97]

well lets see what happens.

[Archangel1994]

AMD is not failing. They are just taking their sweet time with the R9 3xx series and their new CPU architecture

[APrettyCoolWalrus]

Get into your bunkers, a thermonuclear war's-a-brewin'!

[TheKDub]

Perhaps it is because intel is beating them out big time in the CPU world, and currently Nvidia is beating them out in the GPU world.

 

(#Nvidia+IntelMasterRace!)

[marldorthegreat]

Perhaps it is because intel is beating them out big time in the CPU world, and currently Nvidia is beating them out in the GPU world.

(#Nvidia+IntelMasterRace!)

The only reason that is happening is because AMD is constantly undermined by most people as being the cheap rip-off. And does not have the money to spend on R + D to develop faster and more efficient gpus/cpus

AMD is not failing. They are just taking their sweet time with the R9 3xx series and their new CPU architecture

The r9 3xx series will probably not be able to compete with Maxwell effiency, but the new cpu is promising yet a little bit late tbh

[Notree]

The only reason that is happening is because AMD is constantly undermined by most people as being the cheap rip-off. And does not have the money to spend on R + D to develop faster and more efficient gpus/cpus

Not to mention the fanboys in every thread on every forum saying dont buy amd there drivers are crap.

[Diederik_Gr]

Well, it has always been a constant battle between AMD and Nvidia. AMD had cards that beat Nvidia cards in sale numbers back in the days and now Nvidia has the advantage. AMD will come with something sooner or later to compete with the 900 series and i actually consider this constant battle a good thing, market share dominance isn't a good thing for a company to have, especially for the customers.

[vt3c]

I remember the flame wars of the past between intel/AMD. 

I have no hate for either. Both are good. But if you want the bleeding edge of performance, you gotta go with intel.

 

But if you're low on cash and still want to whoop ass, go with AMD. 

 

AMD isn't failing, their architectures aren't top end anymore. I remember when the phenom/core 2 quad were almost neck and neck. 

 

Those days are gone. That's it. They aren't at each other's throats anymore. 

 

There's no more competition. 

And I'm glad.

[DirtySHISNO]

Perhaps it is because intel is beating them out big time in the CPU world, and currently Nvidia is beating them out in the GPU world.

 

(#Nvidia+IntelMasterRace!)

 

We need both companies to survive and remain actively competitive, it drives innovation and squashes prices. You can hashtag as much as you like, but monopoly just strains our wallets and slows down the rate that we (as consumers) receive tech.

[EpicAdom]

Hopefully the new radeon series isn't just a refresh of the current series. Amd needs something to bring them back into the game. Well a new flagship to put them back in the lead. Hopefully they find a way to make more energy efficient gpu's, and they can, and will compete with maxwell and nvidia. But either way, the new releases is just another round in a never ending match.

The R7/R9 refresh was really bad for AMD...we can hope that they will figure something out

[PaulKolby]

I am slightly biased toward nvidia obviously cause of my symbol but Amds workstation cards beat nvidia badly

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/firepro-w8100-workstation-graphics-card,3868.html

Review showing specs of amd workstation

Not to mention the new Mac with a freakin 5k display has an amd card in it so they will make some money on that so I think they ain't leavin and there future in workstation cards and with Apple looks good

[Fate]

I remember the flame wars of the past between intel/AMD. 

I have no hate for either. Both are good. But if you want the bleeding edge of performance, you gotta go with intel.

 

But if you're low on cash and still want to whoop ass, go with AMD. 

 

AMD isn't failing, their architectures aren't top end anymore. I remember when the phenom/core 2 quad were almost neck and neck. 

 

Those days are gone. That's it. They aren't at each other's throats anymore. 

 

There's no more competition. 

And I'm glad.

 

People arguing online isn't a good reason to not have equilibrium in a market. I'd much rather see arguing here and there than Intel and Nvidia being a monopoly and driving the prices up 200%. 

[EpicAdom]

I am slightly biased toward nvidia obviously cause of my symbol but Amds workstation cards beat nvidia badly

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/firepro-w8100-workstation-graphics-card,3868.html

Review showing specs of amd workstation

Not to mention the new Mac with a freakin 5k display has an amd card in it so they will make some money on that so I think they ain't leavin and there future in workstation cards and with Apple looks good

Bruh ur grammar

People arguing online isn't a good reason to not have equilibrium in a market. I'd much rather see arguing here and there than Intel and Nvidia being a monopoly and driving the prices up 200%.

Amen to that

[PaulKolby]

Bruh ur grammar 

It's forums grammar doesn't matter unless u spell the words completely wrong

And don't be that guy who's the grammar nazi

[Umair]

even if the amd card is better in terms of price point, performance and power draw. This confuses me, and AMD has truly innovated over the past 10 years and not may people have given them credit.

 

I have an AMD card at the moment but I can't help but think that this is incorrect?  Even before the 900 series, nvidia had an upper hand in terms of power draw and performance, both of which were delivered at a comparative pricing point in the UK.

 

I'm not really active in the GPU market but this is my two pennies worth.

[Freddieboy]

Well, it has always been a constant battle between AMD and Nvidia. AMD had cards that beat Nvidia cards in sale numbers back in the days and now Nvidia has the advantage. AMD will come with something sooner or later to compete with the 900 series and i actually consider this constant battle a good thing, market share dominance isn't a good thing for a company to have, especially for the customers.

well for the company it's perfect but for the consumers it's not so good.

[-iSynthesis]

Nvidia does a lot more marketing, thats what i blame it on. I mean theres soo much "powered by PhysX" or "powered by Nvidia" in games, its not even funny. Ive thought about this too. Many people always say "Amd is shit. Shit drivers shit support shit cards they run so hot they will die immediatly". 

[Monarch]

Not to mention the fanboys in every thread on every forum saying dont buy amd there drivers are crap.

 

But they're right. Their latest drivers cause GPU to stuck in a low power state after being previously fully stressed. Then there are problems with flash content where you'd get BSODs from YouTube. This is just ridiculous. Not to mention other problems I heard people are having with different cards.

Also many popular games like Shadow of Mordor, Far Cry, Assassin's Creed, Witcher are Nvidia titles.

 

Nvidia isn't perfect either but I've never had such ridiculous issues. I would never recommend AMD to anyone. I mean, why would you? The only reason why I got myself a 290x is because of its price compared to Nvidia cards. Now that there's 970 i really don't see a point.