Astyanax:

no he didn't.

Fox2232:

He left AMD 2009, GCN was already in works by then for 2011 release. Rejoined in 2013. That is unless you want to state that he was actually responsible for VLIW4 known as HD 69X0 which was DOA. And was only used in APUs afterwards due to lower transistor count and some improvements over VLIW5.

Backstabak:

I can't help it, but the name "Xe" is just the made up pronoun some delusional SJWs use 😀

fantaskarsef:

Hmm. I see what you mean, still would have never had that impression in the first place without your mentioning it. I guess that SJW stuff has sunken deep deep into your brain, regardless if you hate it or not. You should seek help.

fantaskarsef:

Hmm. I see what you mean, still would have never had that impression in the first place without your mentioning it. I guess that SJW stuff has sunken deep deep into your brain, regardless if you hate it or not. You should seek help.

schmidtbag:

Huh? GCN was absolutely fantastic for compute purposes (though, I would argue TeraScale2 was better, or could have been anyway). GCN, as an architecture hardware, is good (not amazing, but good). The problem ultimately came down to the Windows drivers for gaming, which AMD (and ATI) was never good at developing. The Linux drivers, on the other hand, are very solid, and improve on a monthly basis. 5 years ago, Nvidia was pretty much the only sensible choice for Linux gaming. Today, Nvidia is actually getting difficult to recommend.

Aura89:

None of this changes anything, as i said, there was never once in the entirety of GCN cards that enticed me to buy an AMD GPU.

schmidtbag:

Well, that isn't what you said before, at least it wasn't made entirely clear. The part off you not being interested in GCN was made clear, but, I was responding more to the parts that were more generalized.

SamuelL421:

SJW goofy pronoun stuff aside, I think "Xe" is mean to be derivative of "Xeon". So I'm betting Xe is the name of the core and workstation/compute model GPUs. Probably some other naming scheme (Iris, HDxxx, ?) for consumer cards when / if those happen.

Backstabak:

Nice strawman there, you know nothing about me, but apparently noticing something that you can commonly see if you at least use internet is somehow bad and I need help. But let me put your worries to rest, I don't think Xe is actually in any way related to the silly made up pronoun, I just found the naming somewhat funny.

Astyanax:

Raja was a nobody in the time pre 2013 that he worked for AMD

Following Advanced Micro Devices's 2006 acquisition of ATI, he served as chief technology officer for graphics at AMD until 2009

0blivious:

Do we know yet what range of card(s) they plan to release? Low end, high end, whole spectrum?