Oh god AMD

[applesauce]

I feel absolutely terrible to see a huge project that thousands of really smart people put so much effort into fail so miserably. Oh god bulldozer.

RIP, AMD. We will miss your competition in the CPU market.

[snoorkel]

I won't miss

[FAMY2]

Given a choice, money no problem, what would be your preference? 

[snoorkel]

Given a choice, money no problem, what would be your preference? 

a server mobo with dual xeon E7-8870s

[spoiler](30MB cache, 20 HT cores each?!?!?!?)[/spoiler]

[FAMY2]

lmao.  THINK BIG AND FAST.

[snoorkel]

lmao.  THINK BIG AND FAST.

that was never AMD's strong suit

[FAMY2]

I only ever had intel 

[Kalahari Inkantation]

lol wow

six years later and amd has hardly changed at all

vega will prove to be its next bulldozer-tier disaster

[Kalahari Inkantation]

lmao.  THINK BIG AND FAST.

think gigantic, massively brute-force overengineered, yet pitifully slow and hot

[Kalahari Inkantation]

the benchmarks for it with games are below the 1080 I think.

sometimes below the 1070, even

And clock-for-clock, it's somehow even worse than the Fury series. A two-year-old GPU architecture designed by AMD itself.

i mean how is that even possible

the head engineer of vega should probably be fired

Apparently the RX Vega will be "better".

rx vega is going to exactly the same chip

so unless the drivers hugely improve in four weeks, i doubt it'll be much better lol

it's quite astounding that amd's cpu and gpu teams seem to have been role-reversed

suddenly amd's cpus are rather competitive, while their latest gpu series is set to be the blunder of the decade lol

[Kalahari Inkantation]

they also want to sell their soon-to-be-proven-terrible product, so of course they'll frantically claim that it's going to be better while scrambling to eke every last drop of performance out of it until the very last second

We'll see what the benchmarx say.

[Kalahari Inkantation]

What's particularly funny about Vega is that it's somehow much less efficient a miner than the 480 or even 470 is.

[Kalahari Inkantation]

Wait for Voltaâ,,¢

[NOA_Haunted]

I bought $500 dollars worth of AMD stock after the announcement of their last CPUs. Watched that shit go up and down from 12 to 15 dollars for a month. Sold out cause I wanted my money back (lost 8 dollars). Then, the next week the stock went down to 10 dollars.

[Kalahari Inkantation]

everybody seems to be falling for the amd meme these days

and by "everybody" i mean naive millennials