What is going on with Anandtech[Missing reviews]?

[Elixer]

You will see 480 before you see 1080/1070. It's unorthodox, but there was no sense in delaying 480 as well.

So, it was 1080/70 preview, followed by 480 preview, then 1080/70 review followed by a 480 review?
Also, can you please do some h.265 encoding tests, 1080-4K content. I want to see how it scales.
Not sure this will work with h.265, but http://bluesky23.yukishigure.com/en/AsVideoConv.html is one of the only free ones you can use to test things.

 

[Elixer]

You will see 480 before you see 1080/1070. It's unorthodox, but there was no sense in delaying 480 as well.

Both the 1070/80 & 480 are still MIA, are you waiting for AIB cards or something?

 

[SolMiester]

LOL, might as well forget publishing either as they are already done by the time this site gets its A into G....Wow, the fall of this site is extraordinary! Come back Anand!

 

[poofyhairguy]

LOL, might as well forget publishing either as they are already done by the time this site gets its A into G....Wow, the fall of this site is extraordinary! Come back Anand!

Apple "Chipgate" was the moment I knew I missed Anand. He would have found the heat difference and called it like it was- the TMSC chip was better period.

 

[SolMiester]

Apple "Chipgate" was the moment I knew I missed Anand. He would have found the heat difference and called it like it was- the TMSC chip was better period.

Yip, been coming here since before 2000, this was the go to site for latest tech, now they might as well be the last.

 

[MrTeal]

Yip, been coming here since before 2000, this was the go to site for latest tech, now they might as well be the last.

They still do a lot, but it is glaring at this point. Dailytech used to be a decent site for tech news too, until things went downhill and it suffered a year of death throes before updates just stopped. I'd hate to see AT suffer a similar fate.

 

[Jaydip]

I believe since Toms bought AT it has gone way downhill, if you want to read reviews go to Toms that is the memo I am getting here.

 

[Ajay]

This is sad. I actually started with Anandtech when it was hosted on Geocities. I didn't know it was bought out by the folks who own TH. This site was the best site, IMHO, for both current reviews and deep dives. I wonder if TH is mainly farming forum members for ad $$s?

 

[Hi-Fi Man]

Ryan, you ought to release an article or something letting us know what is going on. I believe Tech Report did the same recently after people started questioning them and it really helped address the concerns a lot of people had about what was going on with the site.

Just keeping silent like this is going to do way more harm than good to the sites reputation. We all want Anandtech to continue to be the great site it's always been.

 

[Rannar]

So where are all those reviews?
Geforce 960 review should be done soon...
Geforce 1080 preview on may 17th promised to be back with full review on same week... Now 1 month later nothing.
Radeon RX 480 preview on 29th june promised full review in few days... still nothing.

 

[HOOfan 1]

Geforce 1080 preview on may 17th promised to be back with full review on same week... Now 1 month later nothing.

2 months actually. Not a peep about the 1070 either.

Ryan actually said to expect the full review of the RX 480 before the GTX 1080, because he didn't want to delay the RX 480 review any more.

I wonder if we will even get a preview of the GTX 1060 tomorrow

 

[MaxDepth]

Yeah, I'm a bit disappointed by all this too. But it does go to show that one or two people's hobby, when it becomes profitable, goes away when the principle(s) leave. I don't think Anandtech or Techreport thought they'd get this big or to be something that they'd manage for the rest of their lives. (Or as a company with employees for that matter.)

The only person I know who is in it for the long haul is Linus Torvald. I thought maybe Marc Andreessen would have stayed at Netscape/Firefox but he's circling in rarefied air with other venture capitalists.

But I see this not as progress but more of the changing landscape of technology. More "normals" are using technology every day, much much more than the days when the first motherboard reviews were coming out. But in exchange for the larger user base, they are expecting this tech to be more "magic toaster"-ish where it just works and if it doesn't, disposable enough to be readily replaceable. So the majority of the world enjoys these advancements but they really don't want to read about the newest processor eaks out a 7% improvement over the previous model.

The reviews that majority of people read are clickbait ("Newest phone catches fire!") or fanboy stroking ("Kanye loves your phone!"). So this means reviews we've come to expect and appreciate are still niche commodities. It means either someone new has a love of these things and wants to write about them or a company decides to carve into this niche and make it their own. Otherwise, with all the defunct sites or buy-outs from a few conglomerates, Anandtech, like all the others will read the same with just different mastheads.

EDIT: I feel the same about io9 and Lifehacker. Gawker made the decision, probably for monetary reasons, to merge all the writing pools together. Now you have mediocrity across the board instead of nurturing the success of some.

 

[swilli89]

2 months actually. Not a peep about the 1070 either.

Ryan actually said to expect the full review of the RX 480 before the GTX 1080, because he didn't want to delay the RX 480 review any more.

I wonder if we will even get a preview of the GTX 1060 tomorrow

I'm sure they will spit out the 1060 reviewer's "guide" that nVidia has given out to the press.

I do hope they are waiting on AIB 480's, i bet 90% 480's sold moving forward will be non-reference so who are they serving by reviewing the reference 480? Remember the 290 was unfairly cast in a bad light as all of their Benchmark scores for the 290 was the hard to find throttling reference card.

 

[Rifter]

With Anand gone they're just trying to keep it afloat at this point.

This, ive been here since the beginning and lately it appears to be in damage control mode. Which is sad AT used to have epic reviews.

 

[swilli89]

Seriously WHO CARES about this: http://www.anandtech.com/show/10436/amd-carrizo-tested-generational-deep-dive-athlon-x4-845

Literally no one. We have major new video card releases yet we are reading about tired old AMD CPU's.

 

[Hi-Fi Man]

Seriously WHO CARES about this: http://www.anandtech.com/show/10436/amd-carrizo-tested-generational-deep-dive-athlon-x4-845

Literally no one. We have major new video card releases yet we are reading about tired old AMD CPU's.

I don't know if that was a good example. I've actually been wondering if the 845 was better than the 860k for budget builds and there seems to be no good in depth reviews or comparisons out there of these chips so that article was pretty helpful. I think those are the articles they should be doing more of.

 

[richaron]

Seriously WHO CARES about this: http://www.anandtech.com/show/10436/amd-carrizo-tested-generational-deep-dive-athlon-x4-845

Literally no one. We have major new video card releases yet we are reading about tired old AMD CPU's.

Errmm... Actually yeah this is awsome. It's the sort of deep dive I loved with AT reviews, and I still find it very interesting. It's even still slightly relevant with AMD and their "7th" Gen APU being released this year.

Of course we all want more reviews and much earlier, but I'll take this one.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Seriously WHO CARES about this: http://www.anandtech.com/show/10436/amd-carrizo-tested-generational-deep-dive-athlon-x4-845

Literally no one. We have major new video card releases yet we are reading about tired old AMD CPU's.

"Bad example" - Jack O'Neill.

I was interested. But yes, I've been disappointed in AnandTech's erratic GPU coverage for awhile now. The quality is still high when they manage to do a real review not just a preview or press release, but we no longer can count on a review for even the major GPU releases.

 

[Elixer]

The crux of the issue is, we were told many moons ago that the review will be put up.
Fast forward to toady, and they are still not up with no explanation as to why.

Ryan Smith ‏@RyanSmithAT Jul 14

After swapping video cards all day, you really get to appreciate how much more convenient 1 8-pin pwr socket is compared to 2 6-pin sockets

Hmm...

 

[n0x1ous]

Ryan Smith said via twitter today that the 1070 and 1080 review will be up in 24 hrs and that it is 32 Anandtech sized pages. The 1060 full review will be Friday. Then he is working on a full arch and review for RX480. Hope he keeps his word.

 

[TestKing123]

1070/1080 review at this point is way too late.

Back in the old days, Anandtech would have gotten full reviews out already on the same day. They would have done extensive testing on the new Doom Vulcan and Rise of the Tomb Raider patches the day after they were released. Instead, Anandtech has turned metrosexual and focusing on general gadgets, phones, etc...

Far as I'm concerned, this site is no longer relevent.

 

[FatherMurphy]

I'm as annoyed by delays as you @testking123... but you're an ass.

Looking forward to the 1080/1070 review because I know it will contain analysis of aspects of GP104 that are not covered in other sites' reviews.

 

[mohit9206]

Who cares about Anandtech review anymore.We already know everything there is to know about 1080,1070,1060 and RX480.Ryan with all the hard work put into the in depth reviews nobody will care about.Its like submitting your school homework 2 months after you were supposed to lol.

 

[Saylick]

Who cares about Anandtech review anymore.We already know everything there is to know about 1080,1070,1060 and RX480.Ryan with all the hard work put into the in depth reviews nobody will care about.Its like submitting your school homework 2 months after you were supposed to lol.

I think it's fair to say that, given the numerous review sites that currently exist, if you're looking for overall launch performance, you have more information at your disposal than you ever had. I wouldn't be surprised if half of these review sites simply just stick to the reviewer's guide with the addition of some changes unique to that review site. I would much prefer that AT stick with a preview at launch with a larger, more comprehensive deep dive a month or two down the road than to see AT fall by the wayside and join the mass of complete, but technically mediocre, review sites. All in all, cut Ryan some slack. He's doing the best he can with the limited resources at his disposal. AT is still the premier source for top tier technical expositions.

 

[michal1980]

I think it's fair to say that, given the numerous review sites that currently exist, if you're looking for overall launch performance, you have more information at your disposal than you ever had. I wouldn't be surprised if half of these review sites simply just stick to the reviewer's guide with the addition of some changes unique to that review site. I would much prefer that AT stick with a preview at launch with a larger, more comprehensive deep dive a month or two down the road than to see AT fall by the wayside and join the mass of complete, but technically mediocre, review sites. All in all, cut Ryan some slack. He's doing the best he can with the limited resources at his disposal. AT is still the premier source for top tier technical expositions.

Ya, on 1980s tech.