He isn't trolling, he's just a disgruntled AMD fan. To be fair, if you were in his position with a great Freesync monitor without an appropriate performance GPU to power it you'd get frustrated waiting for this drawn out launch too.
The shaping of what AMD buyers are isn't really an opinion anymore these days. I build a fair amount of systems for people at my work, and I can say 1 in about 10 customers actually want a Radeon in their system. Ryzen has also had some problems gaining traction as the i7 brand image is so strong. There will always be well informed consumers that make decisions based on what is best for them, but from my experience in PC retail people like us make up about 10-15% of the total buying market. In the end most of the Radeon/AMD based builds I make are because the customer is extremely cost oriented. The Freesync eco system is an extremely strong selling point for RTG, and they need to improve the functional range on a lot of their monitors (I know the monitor makers decide this but AMD can set a tighter specification for them to follow) and their marketing team needs to really hammer this home. Total cost of ownership for a "premium" gaming display and top end card to run it is usually $150-$200 cheaper than an Nvidia G-Sync equivalent.
Edit: Grammatical error
I'm not an AMD fan at all. I don't care about either company. That's the difference between me and many people in this thread. I follow Vega because I intended to purchase the GPU a LONG time ago, committed to this, budgeted it, and have had the money set aside for 2x Vega GPU high end. Many are following just because they like AMD (which is fine), or are interested in hardware (please tell me you still exist) This isn't in the AMD section. If you want a spot where we are supposed to be more positive we have the vendor sections. There is this thread right here:
http://www.portvapes.co.uk/?id=Latest-exam-1Z0-876-Dumps&exid=threads/radeon-vega-architecture-preview-thread.2496105/page-10
On the topic of AMD specifically, I'm a numbers person. And Async levels the playing field for the AVERAGE user. Yes, there are people who can tell the FPS difference. Great, if they can afford it, they should get a Gsync monitor and Nvidia card. AMD should FORCE it on reviewers to use a freesync monitor and to write about the comparison test, or they don't get the GPU. (I like Nvidia as a company for ownership, hence why I said that you probably shouldn't buy a GTX 1070, but you should buy Nvidia stock.)
Async is the great equalizer for the majority of gamers.
This is just basic common sense, I'm not stating something crazy or revolutionary here. It's the BASIC TCO that you just stated. Would I pay a $200+(I think you're being WAY too generous on the Gsync tax premium sometimes. Especially for the newer tech or 4K stuff) premium for an Nvidia setup? No. In my case, it's even crazier since it's a 4k setup. I just don't care about gaming that much to do so.
That's why I say that for the vast majority of people it's truly basic questions:
Am I willing to wait to have cutting edge graphics performance?
Am I willing to pay the Gsync tax?
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This is very important. AMD tried to ride on the Bitmine wave with Hawaii and got burned, bad. Hopefully they did learn a lesson. Regardless, if the miners are hungry, I only see it hurting AMD's mindshare in the end, as gamers get shafted. Feels like a lose/lose situation, but the best end result is not to see the used market basically destroy the Radeon value/sales. People can bang on their drum a sale is a sale, but what we saw with the bubble burst was miners buying NV on their mining profits, burned gamers buying NV do to shortages/gouging of Radeons, and budget buyers scooping up used Radeons for 1/3-1/2 the market price mean while AMD was ramping up productions only to have cards sit on shelves.
Eh, I tried to have this conversation already railven. People here believe that a sale to a miner is exactly the same as same to a gamer and they don't see the long term benefits of pulling in the gamer sales. You can't really get into a deeper
quality of revenues(or earnings quality) discussion because this is a tech forum and not a financial forecasting debate.
I agree with you though, it's a huge threat(but also revenue opportunity) to AMD, and one they should be looking to mitigate. It's a tough spot for AMD, especially with their company philosophy I can't see them restricting mining from gaming cards and moving it to a mining only series, but that's one option I think they could take.