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NVIDIA Asks Retailers To Stop Selling To Miners & Sell To Gamers Instead,(wccf)

There are a bunch of problems with that idea that I can see right off the bat. Start with college students that often live 3 or more to an apartment and often move each year. With just one card to an address they will end up alienating a large number of the key gaming demographic. Not to mention...
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- Post #88
- Jan 24, 2018
- Forum: Graphics Cards
AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 and 56 Reviews [*UPDATED* Aug 28]

I haven't see it, but is the $499 MSRP tied to the rebates (if they exist) such that if the retailers want the rebates, they have to sell at $499? If so, then it might be a back door way for AMD to try to enforce the MSRP for at least some consumers. As it stands, AMD has no other way to...
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- Post #1,062
- Aug 23, 2017
- Forum: Graphics Cards
JH-Nvidia: Volta not coming soon.. and may be "expensive"

If GV102 costs ~$1,000 to manufacture as JSH said, then I don't see it coming in at less than $1,500 minimum and more likely $1,700-$1,800. NV will want to maintain their margins, especially at the top end, so that will dictate their pricing.
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- Post #23
- Aug 15, 2017
- Forum: Graphics Cards
asus suspicious turn around time rma

Any update on the card?
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- Post #17
- Aug 9, 2017
- Forum: Graphics Cards
What current generation AMD or Nvidia card do you use for your primary home desktop?

I have a 290, and a 480, but my the card in my primary computer is a 390X.
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- Post #46
- Jul 20, 2017
- Forum: Graphics Cards
AMD Vega (FE and RX) Benchmarks [Updated Aug 10 - RX Vega 64 Unboxing]

It sounds to me like that Reddit post that said none of the power efficiency systems that are supposed to be a part of Vega have been activated is correct for the FE. The only thing that makes sense is that AMD ran into some huge problem with their new systems and had to release it as the FE to...
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- Post #1,199
- Jul 10, 2017
- Forum: Graphics Cards
AMD Vega (FE and RX) Benchmarks [Updated Aug 10 - RX Vega 64 Unboxing]

How is Vega going to be AMD's shortest lived flagship? They have nothing else coming until Navi which is due the end of 2018 at the earliest. AMD has no choice but to live with Vega until then as its flagship. Hopefully they'll be able to work some more performance out with driver optimizations...
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- Post #1,122
- Jul 10, 2017
- Forum: Graphics Cards
AMD Vega (FE and RX) Benchmarks [Updated Aug 10 - RX Vega 64 Unboxing]

You and your reasonable approach of waiting to see what is actually released. :D It is amusing, and it does give us something to do while we wait another month.
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- Post #771
- Jul 2, 2017
- Forum: Graphics Cards
AMD Vega (FE and RX) Benchmarks [Updated Aug 10 - RX Vega 64 Unboxing]

The question that I don't know the answer to is, if AMD had to do a significant change to the layout of the silicon in order to remove some kind of show stopping problem, could that require significant rework of the drivers that they already had. The silicon that they had might have been nowhere...
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- Post #770
- Jul 2, 2017
- Forum: Graphics Cards
Vega/Navi Rumors (Updated)

If Navi is, as we believe, a modular system where smaller components can be put together on an interposer, then there isn't any reason for AMD not to release the whole stack at once. As far as I can tell, the only thing that would be holding back AMD setting whatever performance level that they...
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- Post #4,563
- Jul 2, 2017
- Forum: Graphics Cards
AMD Vega (FE and RX) Benchmarks [Updated Aug 10 - RX Vega 64 Unboxing]

This was the Raja quote I was thinking about. https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/6bklro/we_are_radeon_technologies_group_at_amd_and_were/dhqnpo5/ "Developing drivers for new architecture is one of the most complex and difficult engineering tasks for a GPU company...In fact this is one of...
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- Post #713
- Jul 1, 2017
- Forum: Graphics Cards
AMD Vega (FE and RX) Benchmarks [Updated Aug 10 - RX Vega 64 Unboxing]

If, as Raja said, creating new drivers for Vega is extremely difficult, then it's not surprising that the drivers that the FE shipped with are slower than the RX drivers will be. In professional applications, stability is king, where with gaming speed is what you focus on. Which would...
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- Post #681
- Jul 1, 2017
- Forum: Graphics Cards
Vega/Navi Rumors (Updated)

How do we know that. I've heard GV100 announced by NV, but I haven't heard anything else. Is that speculation, or did I miss an announcement?
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- Post #3,782
- May 31, 2017
- Forum: Graphics Cards
Vega/Navi Rumors (Updated)

Is there a limit to the size of the interposer? I haven't heard that there is.
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- Post #3,529
- May 27, 2017
- Forum: Graphics Cards
Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador

I'm not. This is definitive proof that the government is not a business and that nobody should ever suggest that the government should be run like a business. The experiment has been run. It is a catastrophic failure and is currently melting down and on it's way to the center of the Earth.
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- Post #194
- May 16, 2017
- Forum: Politics and News

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