AMD has increased their R&D budget by almost 22% in the past year
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AngryGoldfish
Old N Gold
Good for you, AMD. My 1600X is doing me proud.
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
Still nothing in the grand scheme of things. They need to get an immense amount of efficiency per dollar spent to stay competitive. I hope a lot of it is going towards GPU R&D
BigDaddyKong
Active member
Wouldn't that need to be Radeon increasing R&D to hit the GPU side? I just hope they spend it wisely before this bubble bursts. Since high end GPU's have outsold midrange on the Steam survey for the first time ever.
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AngryGoldfish
Old N Gold
Where are you seeing it say high-end GPU's are outselling midrange ones?
Wraith
Bettyswollocks
I'm only seeing an increase in the ownership of 1060, 970, 960, 1050Ti, 750Ti the 1080 has fallen as has the 1070.. R7's and R5's have slightly come up but nothing significant.
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/
AngryGoldfish
Old N Gold
Yeah, that's what I'm seeing as well. Edit: And some people wouldn't even consider a 1070 or 1080 to be high-end.
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
I would think most of it is for very distant CPU designs while the near term is for GPU designs.
BigDaddyKong
Active member
The Vega sales growth is higher than the 580 or 570 for end of the month. Even the 1080Ti had less of a sales decline than the 1070.
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
How do you figure that? Did AMD release a statement? I didn't see it
BigDaddyKong
Active member
The last column should be YTD. The Vega outpaced the YTD falloff. Granted is a very small chuck of data, and probably not a perfect interpretation without revealing actual sales.
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/directx/
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/directx/
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
I don't think that indicates it's selling better. It is more likely due to the fact that starting from 0% it will gain share more quickly vs the Polaris chips needing more to sell to move up the charts on Steam.
Add in the fact that Steam Survey is a nice tool in very few instances and is 99% of the time not accurate information. If the survey was automatic every month for every user, it would be very very accurate. However so few people get a month, just doesn't work out.
BigDaddyKong
Active member
Are you sure every user? I have talked to a lot of people that never get polled about hardware. Steam won't release their survey numbers even to hardware manufacturers.
