Vega Thread

[SickBeast]

Rollo speak for yourself. I have a near genius IQ. I don't need you telling me how intelligent I am.

I think you are misinterpreting what he is saying. As a simple matter of profession, it is a fairly safe wager that you have far more formal education in developmental psychology than the rest of us do. On that topic you would likely humiliate the average person, despite it not being your primary focus, it is relevant in your field and something that is going to be required for a strong footing. Now, I know a lot of people who work on microprocessor design, *none* of them have any sort of education in developmental psychology at all. If we were sitting in a room with my assembled acquaintances which include employees at Imagination Technologies, Apple, AMD, nVidia and a startup that hasn't released anything yet and the conversation turned to that particular topic, you would be the smartest person in the room, and it wouldn't be close, for the subject at hand.

How is it that you understood exactly what I was saying and the person with the genius IQ did not?

I bet you agree with me on the industry setting up this conceit as well as you have probably been to their press conferences and received their press kits. What better way to sell the product than get the public talking about the dumbed down bullet points on internet forums while pretending to be junior engineers?

"Willikers! 15% more memory bandwidth with GDDR666! I need that!" while the bandwidth of GDDR665 may not have been close to saturated and GPU tech not even close to saturating it.

There's no shame in not having highly specialized knowledge that requires years to acquire, but there is some in calling the people who are world class at it "Al Bundys" and "grunts" especially when one's own profession isn't exactly rocket science. (and this stuff is)

Pride goeth before the fall SB? Personally I think a big component of intelligence is the ability to recognize what you DON'T know. You may be the world's foremost authority in child development psychology, but that would almost certainly mean you're a neophyte here. (because you're spent your time and effort on the development psychology)

I'd rather not share openly online my educational and professional background, but let's just say that in my previous career I was at a very elite level and I pretty much had my pick of jobs.  I came out of the top program in my field Canada wide and I was considered an elite technical expert.  Had I wanted to learn processor design, I easily could have.  It's not the path I chose.  As Ben said, he knows better than AMD in terms of how many ROPs to give Vega and I agree with him.  I just don't appreciate my intelligence being insulted.  You can insult many things about me, but not my intelligence.  I do pride myself on that.  If I had the means to obtain even more education than I have I would have.  I'm not sure what I would have done with it though, I'm very happy with what I'm doing currently.  I get to retire when I'm 55. At that point I might go back to school, learn something new, and embark on my third career. The more likely scenario is that I will buy a winter home somewhere in the US south and just enjoy my life though.