AMD Polaris Tech Day is Today

[Krzych]

3 minutes ago, xAcid9 said:

A guy in my local forum tested ProjectCars with HTC Vive and only able to use Mixed of Med-Low setting @1080p with MSAA to achieve min 90fps with a GTX1080.. i can't imagine playing pCars VR with much lower setting on weaker cards.

Well, AMD is certainly not aiming at Project Cars, this is the most gimped game on Readeons on the market along with Rise of the Tomb Rider. So they cannot deliver good performance there even with card two times more powerful than GTX 1080, it would still score lower than GTX 970 in this game  

[Fetzie]

4 minutes ago, xAcid9 said:

A guy in my local forum tested ProjectCars with HTC Vive and only able to use Mixed of Med-Low setting @1080p with MSAA to achieve min 90fps with a GTX1080.. i can't imagine playing pCars VR with much lower setting on weaker cards.

Project Cars isn't exactly the best showcase for game optimization around though

[TidaLWaveZ]

I'm not sure of how anyone see's AMDs lack of a pascal presence as a good strategy. No advertising, no announcements. They should at least be teasing a product to combat pascal sales but instead plan on letting nvidia have months of uncontested advertising on top of at least a month of having the 1080 available.

 

Come on, if you don't give us something to look forward to, how can you expect us to care?

[riklaunim]

10 minutes ago, TidaLWaveZ said:

I'm not sure of how anyone see's AMDs lack of a pascal presence as a good strategy. No advertising, no announcements. They should at least be teasing a product to combat pascal sales but instead plan on letting nvidia have months of uncontested advertising on top of at least a month of having the 1080 available.

 

Come on, if you don't give us something to look forward to, how can you expect us to care?

 

Everyone is under NDA and await the launch date. Next month is expected to reveal new AMD GPUs, so close enough.

 

And AMD isn't yet interested with GTX 1080 direct competitor as they are starting with lower market segments - bigger ones, at lower prices, and some less performance.

[TidaLWaveZ]

1 hour ago, riklaunim said:

 

Everyone is under NDA and await the launch date. Next month is expected to reveal new AMD GPUs, so close enough.

 

And AMD isn't yet interested with GTX 1080 direct competitor as they are starting with lower market segments - bigger ones, at lower prices, and some less performance.

 

Your first point has nothing to do with my comment. The embargo has nothing to do with AMD releasing information or teasing new cards.  It just stops reviewers from releasing it.

 

Secondly, how do you know AMDs plan when they haven't released any official information? Not releasing any information or teasers whatsoever is not a good marketing strategy.

 

Furthermore we'll probably see the 1070 release before we hear anything official about AMDs cards.

 

Edit: Thought embargo was until 6/29 instead of 5/29 meaning AMD would make no public announcements at computex.

[awesomeness10120]

10 minutes ago, TidaLWaveZ said:

Furthermore we'll probably see the 1070 release before we hear anything official about AMDs cards.

I doubt it. Computex is right before the GTX 1070 release. But people are definitely going to be able to get their hands on the GTX 1070 before Polaris cards.

[DocSwag]

17 minutes ago, TidaLWaveZ said:

 

Your first point has nothing to do with my comment. The embargo has nothing to do with AMD releasing information or teasing new cards.  It just stops reviewers from releasing it.

 

Secondly, how do you know AMDs plan when they haven't released any official information? Not releasing any information or teasers whatsoever is not a good marketing strategy.

 

Furthermore we'll probably see the 1070 release before we hear anything official about AMDs cards.

Don't forget about the AMD event in 3 days. We're supposed to get some Polaris updates from that.

We will hear more about Polaris before the 1070 is released, though I feel the 1070 will come out before Polaris does.

[TidaLWaveZ]

28 minutes ago, awesomeness10120 said:

I doubt it. Computex is right before the GTX 1070 release. But people are definitely going to be able to get their hands on the GTX 1070 before Polaris cards.

 

Ohhhh, I was thinking the NDA was until June 29th. I was starting to wonder why people were disputing, it makes more sense now.

[TidaLWaveZ]

27 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

Don't forget about the AMD event in 3 days. We're supposed to get some Polaris updates from that.

We will hear more about Polaris before the 1070 is released, though I feel the 1070 will come out before Polaris does.

 

Just realized NDA ends tomorrow (May 29), I was thinking June 29. This should explain some of my rage.

[DocSwag]

1 minute ago, TidaLWaveZ said:

 

Just realized NDA ends tomorrow (May 29), I was thinking June 29. This should explain some of my rage.

NDA for what? Polaris?

Cause the Polaris one is June 29th...

[TidaLWaveZ]

2 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

NDA for what? Polaris?

Cause the Polaris one is June 29th...

Now I'm confused.

 

https://tech4gamers.com/amd-polaris-tech-day-nda-will-lifted-29th-may-2016/

[DocSwag]

5 minutes ago, TidaLWaveZ said:

Now I'm confused.

 

https://tech4gamers.com/amd-polaris-tech-day-nda-will-lifted-29th-may-2016/

It is June 29th the title is wrong.

Just look at the pic it says June 29th.

Also search it up every other site says June 29th.

 

So now you can go back to ranting!  

 

EDIT: So basically we will be getting some info from the event in 3 days, but it won't be as much as if the NDAs were lifted. Still interested though.

[TidaLWaveZ]

34 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

It is June 29th the title is wrong.

Just look at the pic it says June 29th.

Also search it up every other site says June 29th.

 

So now you can go back to ranting!  

 

EDIT: So basically we will be getting some info from the event in 3 days, but it won't be as much as if the NDAs were lifted. Still interested though.

I'm under the impression that since AMD tech day has passed, so has AMDs opportunity to release info, which I hope is incorrect.

 

If they give us specs, pricing, and a demo at computex that would make perfect sense. If they say nothing, I stand by my original opinion and don't understand what they're thinking.

 

 

[TidaLWaveZ]

44 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

It is June 29th the title is wrong.

Just look at the pic it says June 29th.

Also search it up every other site says June 29th.

 

So now you can go back to ranting!  

 

EDIT: So basically we will be getting some info from the event in 3 days, but it won't be as much as if the NDAs were lifted. Still interested though.

What worries me is that if AMD doesn't do something to combat Nvidia pretty soon, it's not just gonna be AMD that loses, it's going to be all of us.

 

 

[The Benjamins]

7 minutes ago, TidaLWaveZ said:

I'm under the impression that since AMD tech day has passed, so has AMDs opportunity to release info, which I hope is incorrect.

 

If they give us specs, pricing, and a demo at computex that would make perfect sense. If they say nothing, I stand by my original opinion and don't understand what they're thinking.

 

 

just remember NDA don't always cover everything. some can be set for specific information, like benchmarks.

[TidaLWaveZ]

6 minutes ago, The Benjamins said:

just remember NDA don't always cover everything. some can be set for specific information, like benchmarks.

Yeah, I'll be more confident in AMD if they at least give us something by the end of Computex.

 

Though if its not a 1070 killer at a lower price that can crossfire to beat 1080, then I'll continue to worry.

[The Benjamins]

1 minute ago, TidaLWaveZ said:

Yeah, I'll be more confident in AMD if they at least give us something by the end of Computex.

 

Though if its not a 1070 killer at a lower price that can crossfire to beat 1080, then I'll continue to worry.

I want to see something compare with the 1080, I don't consider a 1080 so be enthusiast card. its just a high end card marketed as enthusiast.

[TidaLWaveZ]

4 minutes ago, The Benjamins said:

I want to see something compare with the 1080, I don't consider a 1080 so be enthusiast card. its just a high end card marketed as enthusiast.

You hit the nail on the head. It just seems like AMD isn't going to with all their "mainstream" jargon.

[dalekphalm]

18 hours ago, Pohernori said:

 

Its only been 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 and 4.0 iirc. Unless amd did some magic and i wasn't aware

As others have mentioned by now, AMD actually never released any official documentation or statements giving the 1.0, 1.2, etc, naming convention.

 

That naming convention was invented by the tech journalist community. Although AMD never corrected them until recently.

[Briggsy]

8 minutes ago, dalekphalm said:

As others have mentioned by now, AMD actually never released any official documentation or statements giving the 1.0, 1.2, etc, naming convention.

 

That naming convention was invented by the tech journalist community. Although AMD never corrected them until recently.

Yeah, I think AMD just refer to it by "Generation," as seen here in this reference guide.

[zMeul]

if there were any doubts about the NDA lift date:

 

I might be wrong, but they haven't shown any hardware; seen couple of pictures from the event

 

so far the rumors were true, no Polaris launch at Computex

[Trixanity]

2 minutes ago, zMeul said:

if there were any doubts about the NDA lift date:

 

I might be wrong, but they haven't shown any hardware; seen couple of pictures from the event

That's because there is an NDA...

[zMeul]

1 minute ago, Trixanity said:

That's because there is an NDA...

because no one breaks NDAs, oh wait .. even that pic is breaking the NDA 

[Trixanity]

1 minute ago, zMeul said:

because no one breaks NDAs, oh wait .. even that pic is breaking the NDA 

I doubt the pic is breaking NDA. The NDA is probably very specific. It's not like attendees have held the conference a secret.

As for breaking NDAs, sure, you can do it but it's not gonna be fun if it's discovered you've broken the agreement. Yes, I know: anonymous leak on the internet. However, it's often very possible to discover the source anyway.

 

Besides, it would honestly be very childish and irresponsible to break contracts just so you can gain some karma points from a bunch of nerds on the internet looking for the tiniest of details regarding a graphics card launch. You don't hold your professionalism in high regard if you do that, that's for sure.

[zMeul]

7 minutes ago, Trixanity said:

I doubt the pic is breaking NDA. The NDA is probably very specific. It's not like attendees have held the conference a secret.

As for breaking NDAs, sure, you can do it but it's not gonna be fun if it's discovered you've broken the agreement. Yes, I know: anonymous leak on the internet. However, it's often very possible to discover the source anyway.

 

Besides, it would honestly be very childish and irresponsible to break contracts just so you can gain some karma points from a bunch of nerds on the internet looking for the tiniest of details regarding a graphics card launch. You don't hold your professionalism in high regard if you do that, that's for sure.

my opinion on NDAs - total bullcrap

 

take the HB SLI bridge shit that went on before the NDA lift

someone from EVGA posted on their forums that there will be only 2 way SLI - and that was true; but the internet went apeshit because people with the info weren't allowed to talk

some other people leaked the info that nVidia will allow 3way+ but only with a driver key they can supply at request - and that was also true

 

so .. what's the reason for NDAs?! to restrict access to information?! for what purpose exactly?

 

I understand putting an embargo on review release date so every outlet can have a decent amount of time to do theirs

but, information that is crucial to the consumer so he'll make a informed purchase should not be withheld