JEMC said:
Nvidia has caught AMD with their pants down in terms of performance, no doubts about it. They have the high end market locked with the 1070&1080, and with the 1060 they're also very, very competitive in the mid range one. It's only in the low end market where AMD can really cause them trouble, which isn't that great as it's also the market with the smaller profit margins. That said, AMD wanted to regain marketshare with Polaris, and even if it comes from the low end, they look like they'll be able to do it. |
What does AMD have in the low end that's not already dominated by Intel and Nvidia? I doubt that APUs are very common in prebuilds where most of the low end is. Polaris is only midrange and currently outperformed by the 1060 in both performance and availability. Do you really think that 30 bucks less for less performance will make a big difference?
That leaves themn with only 2 options to make a big splash this year, Zen and Vega. Vega will probably outperform a 1080 and will then be crushed by Big Pascal soon after. Zen might as well have the same performance and IPC as Intel and would still probably be left behind. If anything the coming gens for AMD's products are only little stepping stones to a hopefully better gen after it. Then again Intel and Nvidia aren't resting on their laurels. It kinda feels hopeless.
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