06-09-2015, 05:08 PM
(06-09-2015, 12:29 PM)ocre Wrote: .....
Yeah, it's really not looking good.
I am blown away, how could the entire 300series be rebrands?
Something must have happened to change what the 390X was going to be.
Maybe the HBM memory isn't ready yet, maybe the Fiji chip couldn't be made profitably on 28nm.
Maybe it's a Bulldozer type situation where the gains on Fiji over 290X refresh don't justify lower profit margins.
Hard to say, but tough times to be an AMD Advocate for sure. Hawaii is 20 months old, and re-launching it won't be an easy sell for the AMD attack dogs. I used to be pretty good at brand promotion, and I don't know that I could pull this off. Those guys stink at brand promotion, and now they have nothing to work with but old tech at a lower price.