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Loophole35:

I find it funny the company that ran an entire ad campaign based on the communist party harping on "freedom to choose".
Yeah that would look hypcritical, but maybe was for aesthetics? Which ad campaign was that?
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Fergutor:

Yeah that would look hypcritical, but maybe was for aesthetics? Which ad campaign was that?
I think he meant that one which looked like "Red Faction" Game. (Not exactly communists...)
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Loophole35:

Well AMD kept calling its user base "comrades" a term popularized by communist USSR. So there's that. It was a bad ad campaign and I'm glad its gone.
As well used in armies. Not that it matters much. Those videos were not interesting.
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Fox2232:

As well used in armies. Not that it matters much. Those videos were not interesting.
Um not really. Brothers in arms or Allies gets used more now. It is because Comrades is more associated with the USSR. Look at the picture I posted in an edit of that post. The sign about the "1%" it is hitching the ad campaign to the occupy wall-street movement that was rooted in Marxist views of the economy. Again it was a bad ad campaign and I'm glad they only ran it for a short while.
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I just re-watched the videos about hardcore communism that AMD made. Did not se anything about politics, just some "rebelion" sh*t and tons of red. About comrade (by google): "a companion who shares one's activities or is a fellow member of an organization. " Nothing about communism there either... I guess some people just links everything that its "red" with communism. edit: Ooopss Fox beat me to it lol edit2: Maybe its just POV related, NA or EU.
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Goiur:

I just re-watched the videos about hardcore communism that AMD made. Did not se anything about politics, just some "rebelion" sh*t and tons of red. About comrade (by google): "a companion who shares one's activities or is a fellow member of an organization. " Nothing about communism there either... I guess some people just links everything that its "red" with communism. edit: Ooopss Fox beat me to it lol edit2: Maybe its just POV related, NA or EU.
Here in Czech Republic we use it in original meaning. "Friend" and apparently we write it phonetically in our way.
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I'll stick with AMD, my Fury is a good card. Would replace with a similar one.
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Loophole35:

Your own link.
I gave you the link knowing what's there... I hope you did not start to think me senile. Reason for putting it here was you disassociating other meanings of the world. I am quite sure that AMD was not appealing on some kind of communist sentiment. As that does not exist anymore in this world.
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Fox2232:

I gave you the link knowing what's there... I hope you did not start to think me senile. Reason for putting it here was you disassociating other meanings of the world. I am quite sure that AMD was not appealing on some kind of communist sentiment. As that does not exist anymore in this world.
Well China is still a communist state pr definition, and in some way also North Korea. Belarus is disputable. Kind regards B.
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Silva:

If you want an Nvidia card, there's no real point on avoiding GPP is it?
Actually there is. Should my next GPU will be from Nvidia, I'll make sure it's from a vendor that's entirely Nvidia locked to begin with (i.e EVGA). Chances are those are part of the GPP - or enjoying its benefits anyway, but they didn't sell themselves out by aligning with GPP and then ditching AMD from their gaming brand(s). In revarsal AsRock, Sapphire and/or XFX would be next AMD vendor of choice. Gigabyte, MSI and ASUS have lost me as customer with their decision making for the time being. That will also extend to motherboards down the line as far as I am concerned, assuming I'll not have to make hefty compromises by choosing a different vendor's inventory 😉 Gotta hit them where it hurts, which is their revenue - and I'll gladly take my business elsewhere.
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Fox2232:

As that does not exist anymore in this world.
... Are you kidding?
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Brutalix:

Well China is still a communist state pr definition, and in some way also North Korea. Belarus is disputable. Kind regards B.
That's bit insulting. You should read about communism. And how it is supposed to work. Just because you believe someone is communist, it does not make him one.
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Fox2232:

I gave you the link knowing what's there... I hope you did not start to think me senile. Reason for putting it here was you disassociating other meanings of the world. I am quite sure that AMD was not appealing on some kind of communist sentiment. As that does not exist anymore in this world.
I don't think you senile. And I never said the other meaning of the word were irreverent. However the way it was being use was easily understood (weather that is the correct way to understand it can be debatable but considering you will defend almost anything AMD does there is no point in going further) as a reference to A communist movement. Be it Cuba, USSR or the current Marxist based far left movements in the states. Sorry for going so far off topic. What was originally supposed to be an ironic quip. Ended up going farther than it should have.
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Fox2232:

That's bit insulting. You should read about communism. And how it is supposed to work. Just because you believe someone is communist, it does not make him one.
hmmm so you are one of those bags of fallacies... Communism is alive and well...sadly...the no true scottman fallacy is a constant with communism and socialism because it simply doesn't work, and as any leftist movement it can't even agree with itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_left-wing_rebel_groups https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_communist_parties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_left_communist_organizations_by_country And surely not even a complete list and of course without counting the impossible of individuals (even when they think they are not individuals but "part of a collective" haha) that are communist but not belonging to any group. But yeah off topic. I want my GPU, give me my high end gaming GPU for free, the "people" want it, "need" it...
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Loophole35:

I find it funny the company that ran an entire ad campaign based on the communist party harping on "freedom to choose".
Maybe AMD was thinking at the way Soviets propelled their country from agriculture based economy with feudal social order based upon serfdom -> to space. In the span of barely 40 years. Defeating the nazi beast along the way. Or perhaps they thought of Chinese who have been no less impressive than Soviets. In short: Red Rebellion could be a hint at AMD achieving astonishing feats in unprecedentedly short time. Something which they gravely need.
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MrBonk:

Amds problem is that they just can't compete at the same level as their competition. Freesync doesn't work as well as gsync on blind tests.(and putting it in TVs and consoles is just further excuse for more poorly optimized games. Not that not having it has ever stopped that from happening.) CPUs are still behind in single threaded ipc performance, which makes the biggest difference in the majority of games along with maintaining high framerates. Their OpenGL/dx11 drivers are not good enough to take the most advantage of the hardware they make.(it's well documented that issues in of cause them to fall behind in emulators that make use of it. Which is the backend of choice often). And the most important thing to me is they have essentially no decent built in AA support in the driver's and afik VSR is not as flexible as DSR.(if there is a way you can get VSR to use custom resolutions let me know). Forcing AA is limited to dx9 and older OpenGL but that covers hundreds of games. And that is enough for me . The last thing is the most important reason why I stick with Nvidia. I have been holding out on a new CPU in hopes AMD will be able to catch up in single threaded performance. Ryzen 2 looks close but we will see.
Switch to 1440P and you will see close to zero fps difference between a Ryzen and an Intel. And if you are not playing competitive FPS, who the heck cares if it's 110 or 120 fps? Up to the 1080, AMD has alternatives. Yes, they are more power hungry (especially the Vega 64), but they can be undervolted so they consume much less while losing only a little performance. And speaking of the RX480, the power difference was about 30W. Is that really a problem? Just check the number of Freesync and G-Sync: G-Sync has been priced, most of the displays have Freesync. Plus Samsung QLED TVs will support Freesync, not G-Sync. Freesync is the future, G-Sync is a dead end thanks to its pricing. And bringing closer the consoles to a PC is not a chance for more unoptimized games, but optimized ones.
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Brutalix:

Though i am proud owner of a 1070, I will have to correct you on that statement, all the proper blind tests, have shown no difference in prefered taste between Gsync and Freesync 2. Since Freesync2 monitors are 200 bucks cheaper, I would like Nvidia to support this free standard as well as the Gsync one. It would also be nice for when using a nvidia in a mediacenter. Intel supports/or are going to support freesync in their drivers which together with HDR support would be very nice. Kind regards B.
Yeah, I saw a HardOCP test recently and most of the comments among participants was about the image quality (which has more to do with the GPU than the respective adaptive sync technologies). The takeaway that I got from it was that there is really no appreciable difference between FreeSync 2 and GSync (except the price 😛). I too would like to use FreeSync monitors with my 1080 Ti, and I hate the way that Nvidia forces GSync down people's throats. Such unnecessary, anti-consumer BS - not only are Nvidia GPUs more expensive than before, but monitors are as well. I swear, if Nvidia could use their own proprietary interface (Nvidia Express?) then we'd pay more for mobos as well. As for AMD vs Nvidia (or Intel), most people seem to have the view that they will only support AMD if they produce a superior product. I think this places an unusually high standard on AMD, expecting them to produce a superior product with only a tiny fraction of the R&D of their competitors (they only became profitable last year for crying out loud). It's like people are expecting AMD to work a miracle and want nothing short of amazing.

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