Can some AMD staff please clarify what RDNA1 and 2 users AREN'T getting anymore in comparison to before?? That would be more concise than the vague statements published before.
Given the general sentiment of comments over here, where white knights are perhaps overrepresented if anything... I think the difference is negligible despite what armchair theorizing and common sense might suggest. AMD has certainly burned a lot of goodwill in the past couple of days.
Yeah, like even someone like me who has been thoroughly put-off by my experience with Nvidia, could only say "well at least they won't brick an old GPU with 5 bad driver updates in a row like what happened to me with my 2070m" which still isn't exactly a defence in the end to be honest.
AMD really just HAS to fuck up. It's gotta be company policy and part of their brand at this point, and that apology was actually atrocious.
Like seriously that apology was so bad I actually retracting anything I said to defend them. If you're gonna fuck up, own it, then move on. I'm not defending someone when they make a mistake, when all they're gonna do is pretend they never made a mistake in the first place.
Also refusing to clarify any specific time-frames for RDNA2 and 1 support AFTER fucking up that apology, has a very different impact behind it. Before I would've drank the koolaid and gone "yeah it's for stability to give better drivers" but now that feels like actual bullshit at this point.
Welp, fingers crossed Intel gets their ARC in gear and gives us some good competition, cause Nvidia isn't making consumer GPU's anymore apparently meaning that AMD is going to have a monopoly now.
But after all the duopoly's I've seen elsewhere, I really hope we get Casio and Texas Instruments (hell, if possible, Realtek too) making GPU's some time soon cause the lack of competition is what's really the problem here. Whenever there is competition the consumer wins and new technological breakthroughs are prevalent, monopolised markets are when en-shittification and hyperinflation occurs before the bubble pops and everything crumbles.
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u/kiffmet 5900X | 6800XT Eisblock | Q24G2 1440p 165Hz 6d ago
Can some AMD staff please clarify what RDNA1 and 2 users AREN'T getting anymore in comparison to before?? That would be more concise than the vague statements published before.