What do You think is being Overhyped at this time in Technology??

[Tech_Dreamer]

So thread is light discussion , but it's mainly Your say on what is being hyped & overhyped , whether it's Games/hardware/software/advancement/Mobile,  Not asking if it's good or Bad , but what do you think is the new load on the hype train?,  Please only Post the things that are at the moment, meaning this very moment / time when you're posting this (check example post)

 

 

Seems like every year this happens , something/something every one talks about ,Fights about , use to start conversations about , Whether it's a hardware or hardware level feature, a game,  an idea , a new idea or this new introduction to interact with data, You name it , You know some things are being over hyped to an immence rather annoying level,

 

Rules : (nothing too explicit but it's just a guideline, feel free to write it the way you desire without causing a flame war)

 

Example:

Person 1: Current Things i feel like is being Hyped as of late are.. *insert subjects/list here*

 

I'll Start:

 

Current Things i feel like is being Hyped as of late are

• Virtual Reality Hardware
• ZEN processor performance relative to intel
• Pokemon Go
• 1080 performance bump / Pascal in general
• intel 10 core CPU Price
• Note 7
• DX 12
• Tesla Auto drive

 

Post Your List and or suggestions down there & let us know..

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[Mr.Meerkat]

9 minutes ago, Tech_Dreamer said:

1080 performance bump / Pascal in general

it's been shown that Pascal is just Maxwell on a smaller node as when they have the same amount of cores at the same clock speeds, they perform just as good as each other so...16nm really helping for dem 2+Ghz clocks I guess  (vs the 1.5Ghz basically Max on air coolers generally for Maxwell).

 

12 minutes ago, Tech_Dreamer said:

Pokemon Go

Hmmmmm....first world problems when you have a sister that's really competitive and she's almost level 15 and I'm 1/3 way through level 8...rip me

 

 

Something I find extremely overhyped is the new 1060 3GB...it has 10% less cuda cores than the 6GB variant and people expect it to perform like it's bigger 6GB brother...at least if the pricing is the same as the 4GB RX480 then rip one of their argument they used with the RX480 4GB vs 6GB 1060  

[laminutederire]

Elon Musk prediction are overhyped. He says so many things about stuff he doesn't seem to grasp fully, but people listen to him like he's a goddamn god.

Apple is still overhyped in the real world of tech peasants. People still haven't got tired of them.

Vulkan is underhyped however.

[othertomperson]

Vram. The number of people saying they will not get any gpu that doesn't have hbm2, and expected it on Polaris wtf. This is AMD's absurd marketing of HBM coming back to bite them, but the only advantage over GDDR5 is power usage. Hawaii couldn't saturate it's memory bandwidth and that was GDDR5, no one should care about vram as much as everyone seems to.

[BrightCandle]

DX12 and Vulkan

Next years GPUs and especially HBM2

XPoint ReRAM

RX480/1060/1070/1080

Zen CPU generally

Auto driving cars

Deep learning

Macs

The upcoming consoles

Most modern games generally

Star Citizen

 

What isn't overhyped these days? That is the harder question.

[themctipers]

iPhone 7 underhyped

 

[ThinkWithPortals]

No Man's Sky

DX12

Internet of Things

Self-Driving Cars

Windows 10

Pokémon Go

VR

[laminutederire]

7 hours ago, BrightCandle said:

 

Actually deep learning is more misunderstood than overhyped in my opinion.