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Pemalite said:

Chazore said:

That's what I'm expecting, but AMD really does need to get their collective shit together. This whole "focus on mid to low end" game for years has been getting tiresome. I want to see real and big competition in the high end market. The more they decide not to compete in that area, the more control and abuse Nvidia can dish out.

They need to go back to their small-die, high performance strategy that put the Radeon 4870 and 5870 on the map whilst undercutting nVidia on price.
Those GPU's stood the test of time, especially the 5870.

Hoping AMD doesn't take the fixed function route of nVidia's ray tracing though. - Just throw more compute at the problem that can be leveraged for everything.

For a while, it looked like AMD was pursuing the same route they did with their CPUs on their GPUs, developing small-scale GPU dies and connect them through some variation of the Infinity Fabric they use for their processors. And I think it would have been a great idea, using smaller and cheaper chips to create bigger and more powerful GPUs that are able to compete with Nvidia's offerings (remember the "2x480 offer the same performance as a 1080" bluff we got when AMD launched Polaris?), but it looks like they underestimated the difficulties, or the results weren't as good as they hoped for.

In any case, going for smaller dies isn't going to work now unless they have the performance to challenge/match Nvidia's products, and given that they can't do it now with big dies, I don't see how they'll be able to do it with small ones (unless they can use magic, of course).