| Captain_Yuri said: Only Raja would fuck up an opportunity this hard. When Nvidia released their 2000 series GPUs for crazy prices with no games that had Ray Tracing for months and DLSS was shat, Raja could have released an AMD GPU that focused on raster for a reasonable price. Instead Vega 7 released for $700 with broken drivers, performed worse than 1080 Ti which you could have gotten for $400-$500 at the time and got shrekt by a 2080 all while the 2080 was more power efficient, offered Ray Tracing and DLSS... GCN's last swan song was such a big joke that it made Turing feel like a good value and boy did Turing age like Fine Wine compared to Vega/RDNA 1. |
Yeah its crazy how he even got such a big role and budget at Intel. Granted he has previous experience in engineering at AMD, they (Intel) should have known from the Vega years that he wasn't good at delivering. I mean these DG2 could be okay for mobile SoC's; when they aren't pushing the envelope for performance, like on DGPU's. Though really with all the R&D at Intel we should expect better. And as much as many people would like a new GPU manufacturer alongside Nvidia and AMD, this feels like a huge missed opportunity and oversight from Intel.
Releasing their big discrete this late into the generation and still coming short isn't really a good look when trying to enter the market. Especially when its so far behind in performance compared to other mid range GPU's. Taking into consideration at how the screwed the GPU market is rn, and given that MSRP's mean nothing.. coming up with a GPU just catching up with a few years old high-mid range chip at the time is, well crap tbh. And yeah looking at how big DG2's is these aren't going to be cheap either.
Jees no wonder they didn't bother showing Arc at CES and are being still being quiet about it.
