08-28-2015, 10:55 PM
(08-28-2015, 09:13 PM)BoFox Wrote: This is probably the biggest lie of a paper launch ever (the most misleading) for a single-GPU card in all of our history.
On top of that, refusing to send samples to reviewers means:
1) AMD is deliberately trying to get away with misleading PC gamers with a PR launch.
2) The supply will be so limited - perhaps even less than 5K units of golden cherry-picked chips used for Nano
Yet, AMD will NOT be able to get away with it at the end - especially since the reviewers serious enough to buy the card for themselves and put it to a good test will point out how misleading AMD's slides were. Of course, AMD is trying to make it "impossible" for them to make direct comparisons by using (or forcing) "0X AF" but many games with high quality settings include AF enhancements as part of it. The same goes for AA. This would require changing the default Catalyst control panel settings - something all reviewers never do as part of their reviewing etiquette.
Now that some fans (and some serious reviewers) already know better - we might see at least 1 big-time reviewer like Tomshardware doing a direct comparison with AF and AA disabled.
My bet is that most of the gamers who buy the Nano for $649 would be swapping out the heatsink for some beefy aftermarket heatsink like the Accelero Xtreme, or doing a custom watercooling job on it. Is there even any serious aftermarket fan/heatsink available that would actually fit this tiny card, though??
You are probably correct on all counts.
What I don't get I people who spend $650 on video cards largely aren't foolish enough to do so on PR benches.
Even sadder with this thing is people will STILL probably be duped because unless review sites test it in the closed mini ITX cases it's built for, and extended play happens, they won't see the throttling that will occur in those conditions.
If you tried to run 4K with AA/AF on these cards in a closed case the clocks probably reduce to around 500MHz, or the card goes supernova, melts through your case, house, and heads for China through the Earth. (and warms up the Earth's lava core as it passes through)