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These rumors are difficult to believe and remind me of the first batch of Polaris(faster than a gtx 980 ti), Fiji(gtx 980 ti + 10-15%) and Vega rumors(gtx 1080 ti + 15%). And I believe they have a similar purpose. That is any rumors at this point help AMD out more than hurt it, even if they are...

Is Navi being designed by the shanghai team again? The Shanghai team doesn't have the best track record so far.

The problem with this bundle is to get the 100 dollars savings you have to purchase the most expensive AMD motherboard as each of those MB listed in the promo is the top of the line MB from Asus, gigabyte and MSI, you also have to buy more expensive 8 cores(can't buy a ryzen 1700), to qualify...

The problem is the niche that has actually has this software won't be doing any gaming unless they are the boss of the company. When the software starts at 4000 for one program and can go to 10k plus with a program like Catia on top of the 100k salary your paying engineers, your not going to...

The thing is although $379 is 100 percent marketing and not retail, and doesn't exist in reality right now, AMD needs to take this price into account because Nvidia could easily make this price a reality. This dual pricing was a greedy move but it is effective for marketing purposes.

I don't think Polaris is profitable at this point and when you add in development costs, I don't think it ever will be. The last time we had cards this cards this cheap on a new node with a comparable size was the 3870 and 3850 and these were 220 and 180 dollar cards. These cards were 20...

The 7870 upon release was only 10% faster than a 6970 which had a $350 MSRP at the time. The price of the 7870 upon release was $350. The die size of the 7870 was 212mm2. Pricing a 14nm card that is 232mm2 for $200 dollar is not profitable. The cost of wafers nearly doubled this time around...

Another form of gcn in 2016? It's getting a bit long in the tooth. They need something new.

After Nvidia released the gtx 970, AMD margins have been terrible. Intel has been generally gentle for the last 5 years. On the other hand, Nvidia seems to want to knock out AMD with the release of the gtx 970 and gtx 980 ti. The aims of these products is have partially revenue driven but...

Add in that it's more difficult to find a reference gtx 980 than an overclocked one and most of these overclocked models are sell for 500 or less and it is being very generous to AMD. Particular since most reviewers went to the trouble of switching out their stock r9 290x reference cards to...

These cards should be in reviewers hands considering that they are sitting in the warehouses of most sellers now. Come tuesday, these cards are launching and at best reviewers might get the cards on that day. Considering some reviewers don't have tracking numbers even, this is disrespectful in...

I don't think 16nm will hit this year, but it should next year. What should happen I am guessing is 390x cards launch in mid July to August. That gives it solid 5 month period to sell. Then January 2016 rolls around and people having less disposable income after christmas, the buying rate of...

At the current pricing, even if it performs as rumors, the 300 dollar pricing of the 290x at 300 or so currently still makes sense with a 390x launching now. E.g 390x at $600 will cost 100% more with 50-60 percent higher performance than a 290x. Heck if it offers titan x beating performance...

I am almost certain AMD is not releasing a full line up of cards by june. Heck I think they might delayed the 3xx series till July or later. The 2nd quarter guidance is is showing total revenue to shrink vs 1st quarter which itself was horrible(from 1.24 billion to 1.03 billion). Next quarter...

You can't just add 7ghz memory to any memory controller and expect it to handle it. Typically the faster the memory the memory controller can handle, the larger it is. The bus size also affects it, but overall you wouldn't save that much room. You just would make the PCB a tad less complex but...