The OpenGL Speed & Performance-Per-Watt From The Radeon RX 480 To HD 4850/4870

[MrCooper]

Speaking of elephants in the room: These numbers reflect the power consumption of the whole system, not just the graphics card (let alone the GPU itself), so they cannot (dis)prove any claims of power efficiency improvements between GPU generations.

[johnc]

Speaking of elephants in the room: These numbers reflect the power consumption of the whole system, not just the graphics card (let alone the GPU itself), so they cannot (dis)prove any claims of power efficiency improvements between GPU generations.

That's not actually very true.

It looks like AMD really came up short with Polaris. They need to price this card at $200 to sell it.

Hopefully Vega will be better, but I don't know.

What AMD really needs is for a solid company to buy it out, replace the whole top portion of the organization which has been ruining the company for years, and inject some serious capital for R&D. AMD is now slipping behind nvidia like they had Intel years ago, and will have to cut prices to compete. It's a go-nowhere path.

If the company does die, just remember: it was killed at the top.

[smitty3268]

Is it trollbait to point out the elephants in the room? I wouldn't have to do it if at least someone was willing to carry the torch on occasion.

You know very well the difference between simple trollbait and actually pointing out interesting discussion topics. FWIW, you clearly moved on to the latter for most of this discussion.

[chithanh]

It looks like AMD really came up short with Polaris. They need to price this card at $200 to sell it.

Apparently even the $249 variants sell very well, shipments sell out within minutes:

https://www.nowinstock.net/computers/videocards/amd/rx480/

If the company does die, just remember: it was killed at the top.

The main problems for AMD were the unethical, anti-competitive or outright illegal practices of the competition, NVidia and Intel.

Of course AMD takes part of the blame too. Like PR disasters that were not even funny. Cutting corners that make their product unpalatable for the target group. Or that AMD as a company probably has the worst agility in the industry (why agility is important).