My vent about Rx Vega & AMD

[jujubeans0]

So yesterday I made the switch to team green and purchased a GTX 1080Ti. Reason being that I was waiting over a year for AMD's new flagship GPU and I was left disappointed that they couldn't match the 1080ti in performance; or even beat the 1080 in price at the least.

My first GPU was from AMD and has been for the past 10 years. So this is my first NVIDA card ever. I've always been a AMD fan but you can't simply ignore the fact that NVIDA has the fastest single card on the market.

The way I see is like Vega showing up to a party 5 hours late with a large cheese pizza and a 6-pack beer. While everyone is already eating meat lovers and deluxe pizza, and there's already a cooler filled with five different kinds of beer. If they showed up way earlier Vega would of been relevant... well maybe only Vega 56 is... if you're a fan of cheese pizza.

 

[Ne0Wolf7]

I like your analogy, although I can't say I share in your disappointment as I don't shop in that price range.

 

[tickleusknee]

I entirely feel your pain, though to me, AMD didn’t just turn up late; they arrived smugly with vegan pizza and their flies undone.

I'm not team red, green, purple, orange with pink spots, or anything else. If it does what it's supposed to do and that's what I'm looking for, I'm happy.

AMD has been talking BIG a lot lately. And in fairness, they've been convincing too - I don't think anyone's upset that the CPU side of things have been stirred up a bit. OK, maybe if you’re Intel you’re not so happy you’ve got to start working for a living again. (Their knee-jerk reaction at Computex was hilarious!) But the point is, there's a trainload more of good options available now than there were this time last year. Good.

Trouble is, I think that suckered me into thinking the same would happen with Vega.

But what actually happened with Vega was rude.

To continue the analogy, it's like the really nice girl at the party who's been making eyes at you all evening, nudging up against you whenever the opportunity arises, bla bla bla, then leaves with the late arriving AMD because they’ve got friends who are Ferrari-driving bankers. I imagine they took a dump behind the sofa before leaving too.

I'm not particularly bothered AMD was late with Vega. And I'm even pretty sure that, in time with driver updates, they'll be able to deliver something more exciting, even if it's still a bit thirsty and toasty.

But what disappoints me is that, having made all these promises to the gaming/enthusiast community, to then launch a new Vega beta driver that’s designed to help enhance the card's crypto-currency mining capabilities, which is only going to shove the already erratic price up into low Earth orbit… does anyone else feel like AMD’s saying one thing and doing another?