| Captain_Yuri said: Who knows. x86 has had many competitors in the past and it managed to out last them and it's not like Arm isn't about to hit a wall either as the gains have been meh. Until Windows can work with Arm properly while delivering x86 levels of performance, it ain't gonna do much other than low end devices, apple and mobile. Surface Pro X for example is a solid flop cause of how awful it is to use with windows apps. |
Software compatibility will follow with adoption. There is certainly high demand for using mobile apps on PCs and vice versa. Especially with a new generation growing up entirely with mobile. Performance seems to be fine enough with Apple being so sure to completely ditch x86. I have complete trust in Apple's greed, they wouldn't do this if there was a chance for them having to go back and lose a bunch of money.
EricHiggin said:
I'm guessing AMD being surprised when it comes to Ampere is literally super negative or positive. Meaning AMD didn't see this coming, or assumed Nvidia got the hint and would've turned up the heat. I would think this means we're either getting another Polaris like situation, with quite good mid tier gaming performance for reasonable prices, or they're going to be quite competitive with Ampere in general. Last time during the mid gen console launch it was the Polaris situation, so with the the next gen console RDNA Navi launch approaching, it wouldn't be crazy to assume another similar scenario. I've been assuming Big Navi is actually going to compete all around with Ampere, which is why I figured they wouldn't pounce immediately after Ampere was announced. No need to react immediately if you're not at a disadvantage. I also wouldn't be surprised if AMD is thinking they should teach some gamers a lesson who've been sucked into the pre order game for years now. Let Ampere launch, let it sell out, and then shortly after, explain your cards coming soon will perform similar if not better, at less cost to some degree. If Big Navi really is worthy for the most part, and you buy a 3000 Series, assuming you're not a strict Nvidia fan, then find out shortly after you could have gotten more performance for cheaper, you wouldn't kick yourself for not waiting a little bit? This would be smart for the future when AMD may be at a significant disadvantage again. Instead of gamers ignoring Radeon and just instantly buying up GeForce cards as soon as they can, they will start to wait and see. At least for a while anyway, depending on whether AMD continues to deliver, or not like prior gens. Hopefully I'm not wrong, but RTG remaining so silent, calm and cool, which is new, says to me they actually have something serious cooking in their own ovens. |
People don't buy GPUs every year, most people have the same GPU for at least 3 years. So if a person buys Nvidia over AMD due to lack of alternatives they will stick with that card. When the AMD cards finally release they will find reasons to justify their own purchase, dig in their heels and make sure to go Nvidia for the next gen too because they got used to it already. If people were capable of self reflection, rational thought or learning from mistakes the world wouldn't be such a fucked up place, but it is. So counting on that would be a bad move on AMD's part.
When I hear about rumors boldly presenting increased performance per watt numbers I cannot help but to think back the last time when that was the only selling point for an AMD card. It reminds me of the helpless flailing of console fanboys when they bring up price/performance for consoels over PC.
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