NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
And this is the same reason that the Fury X was so expensive (and still is). Everyone justified that because of the high cost of HBM, ultimately creating a card that was not as competitive as I should have bee.
Were AMD being greedy too then?
I don't condone any company artificially hiking prices above what they should be, but it happens. I don't complain either that I cant afford a new Aston Martin because it is expensive, I couldn't afford the last one either. Yet a price hike of 10k+ isn't questioned for little gain in performance. So why is the tech sector any different.
Ultimately, slating any company for doing what they do is pointless. Let's all hope that one day that all tech is affordable with good market competition.
Too greedy? No. I think it was more of building the hype and having that sell it. Unforuntaly for them, they failed in many areas that people wanted. So the only thing left that as a good point was HBM, but memory of any type alone cannot make the entire performance of a GPU.. Add on the fact it was very pricey, didn't help them much.
Everything AMD does is flowers and sunshine, everything nvidia does is evil, lies and greed. Sure going midrange is a smart move for AMD, but they don't have much of a choice either. I am myself in the market for either a 1070 or whatever toprange product the Polaris lineup offers and considering the price surge nvidia had i am currently leaning towards AMD, so i am by no means anti-AMD, i'm merely criticizing their performance of the past few years. It's a lot easier to conquer the midrange market than the high end market, it's not like nvidia is just going to leave that to them uncontested.
They have a choice, hence Vega. It's just taking a little bit longer. It's not as bad as it used to be. At least this time they releasing much sooner than before compared to what was it.. 18months?? Polaris is still using the same IP block as Fiji, it's merely evolved slightly. Vega is using an all new IP block, so it's going to take longer and is aimed squarely at the high end. Let's just hope it's a real rival.