No no no, he said "almost entirely sure" and "almost sure". He did not say "mostly", don't try to downplay his claims. Certainty is based on either belief or facts, so I will call those facts unless you want us to go towards faith based speculation.
he says "mostly sure" at 3:20. unless you heard it from another timestamp but i think that's the only one to exist.
To be clear. i'm definintly not trying to straight up defend him to be clear. I just don't believe in throwing out info completely without looking into it. I know how he is and i know of what to throw out of his info. I know enough about tech to know that i know more then him
Certainty can be based on multiple things and not just belief or facts. From a dictionary it means: "the quality or state of being certain especially on the basis of evidence" among other definitions which can be and not limited to "belief and facts" Calling what he said outright facts is misleading and is why i'm posting.
Unless you mean "situationally percieved facts as one was led to believe through various accounts of others"
I don't think we're on the same page here. I don't have a problem with channels and/or twitter accounts that claim to have leaks, that's fair game and they will be judged by their accuracy. We have Twitter accounts with great results, we also had newcomers on YouTube that make a complete mess before Zen2 launched.
We are on the same page. the majority of that paragraph you quoted is nearly completely comprised of exact or near exact quotes from the video in question.
Won't deny the zen2 mess but it wasn't just new youtube channels that caused it all, but it had one of the biggest incidents. I think some of them learned and have lived that down enough.
What I do have a problem with is making a show out of it and adding conflicting claims such as fake Linux drivers into the mix to make the show more appealing. This is conspiracy level stuff, and has already been debunked on the forums. Moreover, his language made it seem as if AMD had internally tested physical Navi chips with 384bit memory interface and decided to go with 256bit instead. Think about the implications of this claim as well, because he's almost entirely sure about it.
Making a show out of it is fine. You do what you have to do to make a living / get an audience on youtube of all platforms. I can't fault anyone for making their living however they must / want to. but agreed that the conflicting claims are not cool.
I too would like to hear more clarity on what he ment by the 384bit navi chip (what level of testing) I don't subscribe to him or tip him in live streams (or even watch them) so that'll be a difficult task. But i'd surely like to hear what you have to say about that and i promise i won't reply to that point. I'm just interested in what you have to say. Information makes me excited.
It's a show, drowning us in (conflicting) details and commentary to keep the audience watching and increase credibility. He did the same with Ampere in the Nvidia Forced Scarcity video.
I'd like to play devils advocate here if you'd so allow. On second thought it's not the Nvidia thread so nevermind
He claimed Nvidia is trying to increase margins by forcing AIBs to cut down on BOM and also increase pricing over MSRP. Except we now know cards such as the Asus TUF Gaming took no shortcuts when it comes to BOM and will sell at MSRP.
I don't think this point is as accurate as it should be. Is it from the same video you posted above? He says at 3:49 "Most of the bills of materials that AIB's have submitted have margins below 40% for any of the cards coolers that are near the retail price." Which means that it does not stop them from selling at / near / below MSRP. His assumption that they'd only increase pricing isn't entirely wrong since he said "most" at the start but if they're willing to accept lower margins then he was largely on point.
He claimed FE cards would be loss leaders with the purpose of getting better results in reviews over AIB cards, except AIB cards have proven to be faster and cooler.
I'll pick at this. He was wrong that the FE edition would be loss leaders. But also fair to say that having a direct from Nvidia reviewed GPU ensures a certain quality over random AIB versions. However i don't think there has been a time when some AIB version wasn't better then the main AMD / Nvidia version at least in recent years. Not putting words in his mouth but that's worth stating against both what he and you said. Also has to be stated that there will be an AIB version / versions somewhere that's worse then Nvidia's version.
Again, I won't fault him for claiming Samsung 8nm yields were poor and then reconsidering them as good. That's understandable for someone working with leaks and rumors. The problem is adding false juicy information on top to increase... conversion. That's the Mars fertilizer.
I'd agree to that specific point.
I do like that he admitted he was wrong and corrected himself. I don't have a problem with juicy information, but false juicy information is as bad as fruit stripe gum.
Also glad my quotes didn't break....