AMD CEO Lisa Su promises to be competitive again in high-end GPUs

nevcairiel

2018-11-02 09:45

AMD has an event next Tuesday (Nov 6), and first rumors were flying around about Vega 7nm launch, but there is also a statement from Lisa Su that it will be datacenter focused. So maybe Vega 7nm Pro, but no consumer cards quite yet.

#5602619

Corrupt^

2018-11-02 10:11

Fingers crossed for 2019 I guess.

#5602620

Astyanax

2018-11-02 10:13

>talented employees walked over towards Intel leaving quite a bit of worry in the GPU front. Thats not the way i would describe Chris Hook.

#5602624

nizzen

2018-11-02 10:39

Corrupt^:

Fingers crossed for 2019 I guess.

*2025 maybe... 😛

#5602625

cryohellinc

2018-11-02 10:46

Its in best interests of everyone for AMD to develop something Solid in 2019. Otherwise we have Intel 2.0 situation, and nobody wants that.

#5602626

Fox2232

2018-11-02 10:51

nizzen:

*2025 maybe... 😛

What a poor imagination right there. If you fell into coma now and woke up in 2025, you would likely by as confused as if you took someone from 18th century and shown him our world. Or maybe you just fell out of the loop and therefore you are clueless. Either way, if I am to take your words in context of Lisa's... even marking you as clueless and ignorant is display of my kindness. = = = = As for the article. There will be few surprises. Not because AMD brings big guns soon, but because people forgot what is entry level GPU, what is mainstream level GPU, what is high-end level GPU and what is enthusiast level GPU. People now think that mainstream is $500, high-end $800 and enthusiast $1200. And only those people who supported this shift are to blame.

#5602627

cryohellinc

2018-11-02 10:56

Fox2232:

What a poor imagination right there. If you fell into coma now and woke up in 2025, you would likely by as confused as if you took someone from 18th century and shown him our world. Or maybe you just fell out of the loop and therefore you are clueless. Either way, if I am to take your words in context of Lisa's... even marking you as clueless and ignorant is display of my kindness. = = = = As for the article. There will be few surprises. Not because AMD brings big guns soon, but because people forgot what is entry level GPU, what is mainstream level GPU, what is high-end level GPU and what is enthusiast level GPU. People now think that mainstream is $500, high-end $800 and enthusiast $1200. And only those people who supported this shift are to blame.

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#5602630

HWgeek

2018-11-02 11:22

Why no attention to my early news report about AMD's next big event? just now Anandtech made an article about that: https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/amds-next-horizon-event-is-scheduled-for-tuesday-november-6-2018.423652/

#5602635

FrostNixon

2018-11-02 11:52

Sad to say, but chances of catching up with the high-end in the next 3 years is most likely none. They are too far behind already. However catching up with the RTX 2070 with a budget GPU which doesn't use twice the power is what I am looking for and hopefully we will have that next year.

#5602641

drac

2018-11-02 12:51

I may not use AMD hardware but you gotta give them the utmost respect, someone has to push things forward! Hope they pop out some competitive GPU's next year!

#5602644

drac

2018-11-02 13:02

Fox2232:

People now think that mainstream is $500, high-end $800 and enthusiast $1200. And only those people who supported this shift are to blame.

People get thirsty for new hardware, esp. when there is a large gap. I don't think consumers are to blame, its more so just a lack of competition.

#5602647

Picolete

2018-11-02 13:11

nevcairiel:

AMD has an event next Tuesday (Nov 6), and first rumors were flying around about Vega 7nm launch, but there is also a statement from Lisa Su that it will be datacenter focused. So maybe Vega 7nm Pro, but no consumer cards quite yet.

It's more than likely for the 590

#5602650

sfdmalex

2018-11-02 13:17

drac:

People get thirsty for new hardware, esp. when there is a large gap. I don't think consumers are to blame, its more so just a lack of competition.

I think it's primarily consumers and cheap credit, or rather availability of credit. You would be surprised how much the younger generation is willing to spend on things some older folks would never imagine. People started to believe that just because they have the "ability" to buy certain things they can afford them. But it's ok, a global credit crunch is under way so things will change and people will have a lot less money to spend and prices will have to adjust. People are blowing 1200$ on phones and on GPUs. I head an IT department at work and there are quite a few kids here at work in junior support positions who buy the latest gear with borrowed money because I know what their paychecks are. I would never imagine spending a month's pay on a video card, but many people do.

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Fox2232

2018-11-02 13:41

sfdmalex:

I think it's primarily consumers and cheap credit, or rather availability of credit. You would be surprised how much the younger generation is willing to spend on things some older folks would never imagine. People started to believe that just because they have the "ability" to buy certain things they can afford them. But it's ok, a global credit crunch is under way so things will change and people will have a lot less money to spend and prices will have to adjust. People are blowing 1200$ on phones and on GPUs. I head an IT department at work and there are quite a few kids here at work in junior support positions who buy the latest gear with borrowed money because I know what their paychecks are. I would never imagine spending a month's pay on a video card, but many people do.

Tell that to China... Biggest enabler to Chinese debt for general population is one of our companies in Czech Republic. And yes, in here it is popular as hell. Hard to understand that imbecile who thought that economical growth will be stimulated by "buying" something you'll be paying back next few years. Before this system became wide spread infestation, people actually had money. Now they have debt instead.

#5602664

gx-x

2018-11-02 13:45

Their own roadmap doesn't show 12nm, yet here we are...I hope they come up with something, sooner then later.

#5602667

Amx85

2018-11-02 13:48

we believe in you Lisa, we believe im also waiting VEGA die shrink, if they improve clocks and HBM bus width, im expecting 20-30% more performance just with these changes greetings

#5602671

vbetts

Moderator

2018-11-02 14:05

FrostNixon:

Sad to say, but chances of catching up with the high-end in the next 3 years is most likely none. They are too far behind already. However catching up with the RTX 2070 with a budget GPU which doesn't use twice the power is what I am looking for and hopefully we will have that next year.

Not sure how they're behind, for products that match the 1080 and 1070 and lower they have them. They never had anything to compete with the 1080 ti, and nothing at all with new generation of Turing.

#5602672

rburks

2018-11-02 14:11

gx-x:

Their own roadmap doesn't show 12nm, yet here we are...I hope they come up with something, sooner then later.

Love your AmigaDOS bootloader pic, Gx-X! Haven't seen one of those in a while. I'm also hoping they have something other than Navi in the works, since that is geared for the Playstaion 5. Seems to me the easiest way to kick it up a notch on their current lineup would be some GDDR6 memory (unless that's what is causing RTX cards to die.)

#5602674

RzrTrek

2018-11-02 14:16

My electricity provider is going to laugh all the way to the bank, but hopefully AMD have learned a thing or two from 1st gen Vega or else they're doomed to repeat their mistakes.

#5602679

Hyderz

2018-11-02 14:29

If amd can provide a gpu performance roughly sit between 2080 and 2080ti and the priced between rtx 2070 n 2080, i think amd can give nvidia a good scare 🙂 ... but dont take too long otherwise rtx featured games will be in favor for nvidia.