AMD Capsaicin & Cream Event LiveStream - Watch it here

#5399470

Unstizzy

2017-02-28 21:00

I kind of feel duped lol. He said there would be actual info on Vega and they just released the name.....

#5399472

ivymike10mt

2017-02-28 21:02

Bored presentation... I expected to learn something about VEGA GPU performance. That marketing blabla just wasting time for me.

#5399473

Steppzor

2017-02-28 21:03

that was uhm.. meh :P

#5399474

Barry J

2017-02-28 21:04

disappointed really wanted hardware info ....

#5399475

Loophole35

2017-02-28 21:04

Ok, who else expected a little more then this ? 🙂

I definitely did. Maybe there are some issues still to be ironed out with Vega. Most of what they have shown it doing is not really a perceived improvement over Fiji. The performance in BF1 and DOOM that I've seen is not impressive and always accompanied with a disclaimer about using debugging drivers or just a Fiji driver. Well at least we have 10:00PM EST tonight for 1080Ti and Ryzen the end of the week. Wouldn't want to blow our collective load too early.

#5399478

chispy

2017-02-28 21:07

I did in fact expected a little more , perhaps a peek at a real Radeon RX Vega GPU :/

#5399480

Fox2232

2017-02-28 21:08

Ok, who else expected a little more then this ? 🙂

They gave out stuff they do not want to use in actual Vega announcement.

#5399485

Noisiv

2017-02-28 21:12

That was so so so bad. The only silver linings which might be great in the future is that they are actively contributing to the Unreal engine, and that they have a deep technical partnership with Bethesda. No real Vega info, useless streaming services and VR cr*ap. ...

Don't forget two me-too. Cloud gaming and muti-res shading, and one Deja-Vu -> Forward renderer. Which is not bad by itself, but it looked so bland and everyone was acted like another day in the office. Of course, except... Roy jumping around just for the sake of jumping. I woudn't be nearly as pissed if they hadn't invited the Roy person. That guy is so fake it's uncomfortable to watch. Raja should let him sink along with VR. I can tell them right now where VR is going to be two years from now:At the same place its now.

#5399486

Clouseau

2017-02-28 21:13

Poor timing of the event. Should have moved it till after the Ryzen launch. Then they could have showcased better shiny stuff to capture our attention. They are not going to take away from the impending release just two days away. Vega would just get lost in all the madness. Sensory overload...too much information too quickly. They have bet the whole company on Ryzen and now need to recoup some much needed cash to launch Vega in the same way.

#5399490

Noisiv

2017-02-28 21:18

Poor timing of the event. Should have moved it till after the Ryzen launch. Then they could have showcased better shiny stuff to capture our attention. They are not going to take away from the impending release just two days away. Vega would just get lost in all the madness. Sensory overload...too much information too quickly. They have bet the whole company on Ryzen and now need to recoup some much needed cash to launch Vega in the same way.

Zen has taken all the Oxygen out of AMD's lungs, which is only right. Which does not mean by any stretch that Vega will be bad. I am quite certain Vega will fit quite nicely and not too costly, inside my Fractal Design :banana:

#5399492

dunadan101

2017-02-28 21:24

What a waste of time... Worst than last December's Zen presentation.

#5399499

Elder III

2017-02-28 21:54

Maybe their relationship with Bethesda means they're co-designing a brand new engine for TES:VI? at least one can dream....

#5399502

Anarion

2017-02-28 22:10

Ok, who else expected a little more then this ? 🙂

I didn't. Considering how large let down the last similar event was.

#5399521

PrMinisterGR

2017-02-28 23:00

If they hadn't teased Vega so hard, the event had some really good news, as AMD is addressing their final two "weaknesses" in the developer level, meaning the Unreal engine and Bethesda titles.

#5399758

Fierce Guppy

2017-03-01 09:07

AMD had some guest devs extolling Forward Rendering and I thought a ~30% performance boost with this one feature was quite impressive, but I actually wanted to see if AMD could produce a *tangible* reason to deter me from getting two GTX 1080 TIs. No tangible reason was announced. Not a single glint of a shiny new tangible reason.