AMD Info! HBM-equipped Radeon this quarter! Zen CPU architecture in 2016

[JEMC]

fatslob-:O said:

JEMC said:

Fury X is not a bust, it's just not the great success that many thought it would be after so many rumors. But it's still a very good card with the best reference cooling solution ever.

And the second batch of cards with the revised pumps and hopefully no coil whine will be better.

And in regards to Tessellation, AMD already showed that they fixed it with GCN 1.2 on the R9 285 that carried over to Fiji.

I would consider it to be a bust since it isn't superior to the competition in any metric like perf/die area, perf/watt, and performance crown ... 

It doesn't even overclock all that well either ...

They certainly may have fixed it with Tonga but it's clear that there were still some strides to be made in order to get closer to Nvidia and that's evident with Fiji having no increase rasterizers/set-ups resources in comparison to Tonga ... 

AMD and Nvidia have different views on what the devs and by extension the market, needs. Nvidia bets on more raster and tessellation units while AMD bets on more texture units and processors. And the truth is that both are true or wrong given that the performance results they get are pretty similar.

Also, while Nvidia cards are better with tessellation, the games that use it the most like The Witcher 3 with Hairworks on run so bad on even Nvidia cards the advice from every reviewer is to turn it off completely, which is funny because AMD launched a patch that allowed to cap the tessellation of the game making it run better on AMD cards than on Nvidia cards while looking the same. So even thought Nvidia has an advantage when it comes to tessellation, it's hard to notice that advantage in non syntetic benches.

And no, Fury X doesn't overclock well, which is odd given that AMD publicly said that it would be a good overclocker. Maybe we'll have to wait until there's a way to increase the voltages.