-BirdiE-

Well... At the event it's Sunday.

Meanwhile....

Well, the EA bank account didn't lose cash, but the owners collectively lost $3b in assets. The thing EA has to worry about is panic. There may or may not have been causality there, but if investors perceive it as causality (and trust me, "we might loose our $800m stream of revenue due to government regulation" is enough to potentially cause panic) it might lead to people starting to dump EA stock. Especially when the reason it went up was from all their earnings in things like Ultimate team.

I can react with "like", "informative", "funny".. But I feel for this situation I really need a "face palm" to convey my feelings.

The irony of this statement... But seriously, I agree that you'd have to be fairly mentally deficient to send death threats to the actual developers.

This is very true. I thought you were saying "they aren't going to make them" rather than "it probably won't be good." It's hard to have a TON of confidence in Raja after the little success he had at RTG. But it very well could have been his team that let him down. Or he could find more success integrating some of Intel's technology. Hard to say though. It's a really weird industry where they all have patents, and licence technology to each other. Intel has already licenced AMD graphics technology to make their APUs (or whatever Intel calls theirs). Does this mean they can use that tech to make discrete GPUS? And if someone like Nvidia tries to hike up the price on Intel when licencing a technology... Who knows how Intel will react? Nvidia's money makers (enterprise GPUs) pretty much all run on Intel chipsets. Maybe Nvidia is afraid of the price they pay to Intel going up, or losing support on that chipset? I don't really know the answer to any of those. lol. I'm just saying there are super strange relationships so it's really hard to say how it will turn out. EDIT: One more note, Intel was also working on a retail GPU from 2006 to 2010, whose technology was used in Knights Landing. It will be interesting to see if any of that technology works its way in to their new project.

Intel has come out and said they've hired Raja to work on "high-end discrete graphics solutions for a broad range of computing segments" Sounds like they're making GPUs to me..

Well they're clearly planning something if they've hired Raja to work on GPUs for them. Going to be hard to tell how quickly they'll come to market though. Could be quite a few years if they start from scratch. From Intel announcement (via WCCF):

I think you mean "because it sounds cool" Unless you have a 100" TV, it won't look any different than 4K from across your living room.

Somehow I have a feeling my X34 Predator doesn't support HDCP 2.2 Gosh darn DRM! Screwing everyone over

THINGS ARE HAPPENING! *please don't be fake* *please don't screw this up*

They normally don't come out with the Classified until a month or two after the initial cards come out. At least from what I've seen.

I'd take their 4K OLED over this (also $5000)... Hell, I'd take a QHD OLED over this.. Though my real dream monitor would be a 3440x1440 OLED at 120Hz+

No Gran Turismo 3 or 4? Lame...

Yeah. 96 vs 88... But if rops are what your after, you're probably better off buying two 1080TIs

lol. That seems like a silly decision by Nvidia. I don't think anyone is going to be buying the Titan XP for the extra 1GB VRAM.

Not really. They've had this performance for 7 months now. Are 1080ti owners going to get "screwed over hard" when Nvidia releases the Volta GTX 2070 (or whatever they call it) for 60% of the price in 6-7 months from now?

And this is based on your expert analysis? I doubt it. They've already sold millions of chips to computer manufacturers and retailers. They'll either have to wait for all those to sell out, OR offer significant rebates to the manufacturers and retailers and go explain to their investors why the revenue they reported is no longer accurate. Not to mention suddenly dropping the price to be competitive with Ryzen would piss off consumers and, more importantly, the companies that just bought 20,000 Intel machines at a much higher price the day before. The only real remedy for this is to release new/rebranded chips, or drop prices slowly over time.

It's definitely higher than I thought it was. According to PCWorld, it was at 12.1% 4Q2015. I'm having trouble finding much other information. http://www.pcworld.com/article/3060666/hardware/how-amd-is-ressurecting-itself-as-a-formidable-rival-to-intel.html

I think AMD's Ryzen strategy is going to go well for them. It will take Intel time to react to these prices. They can't just drop the price since they've sold a ton to resellers (Retailers, as well as HP, Dell, Lenovo, etc.) already... So they'd either have to wait for all those to sell, OR they would have to issue rebates to all the resellers and explain to their investers why the earnings they reported are no longer accurate. It will take Intel a while to drop their prices, and in the mean time AMD will have captured back a sizable amount of market share. With that being said, I think that was simply due to the dire state of their CPU line. RTG might be 25% to 75% with Nvidia, but their CPU line was probably 3% to 97% with Intel. Not to mention that it works much better against Intel because they pretty recently released Kaby Lake, where Nvidia has Volta looming... making it much easier for them to combat AMD prices. I don't think it would be nearly as effective, and would simply cost AMD revenue they pretty desperately need.

I don't think you can look at what they did with Ryzen and appy it to what RTG will do with Vega. RTG has no history of largely undercutting Nvidia prices, and doesn't have the same need to buy back market share and reputation that their CPU line did.

Raja promises "And extra spicy announcement" That announcement: "It will be called RX Vega, not RX 580" GJ Raja

Sadly, that just seems to be the state of tech jornalism today... I notice it at most sites, not just WCCFTech.

Sorry if someone already said this, but.... Why would this mean there's a good chance it's from someone else? AMD used the Titan XP for the Ryzen vs 6900k demo in their CES booth... So this really tells us nothing.

Nvidia doesn't care at all about people selling codes on G2A. In fact, if their customers can get a monetary bonus for buying their GPUs, they're probably happy about that. What they're trying to avoid is people ordering the GPU, getting the code, and then canceling the order.