Originally posted by birdie
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You keep repeating the mantra that you want to compare chips across generations that are not similar simply because it supports your position. Are you willing to admit that AMD is still producing the 3000 series chips, at least, that can be purchased and as they are lower on the performance scale they are the actual 'entry' level chips available? I imagine you're going to try and say that is moving the goalposts but it is a valid question as they are available, work in the same systems, and are less performant and less costly.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. You don't have a direct line to AMD's engineering department, marketing department, or sales department. Why do you assume you have any actual proof of what you are saying. The most that any of us can say is 'Based on previous evidence' where the previous evidence shows that over the last 3 generations AMD has delivered on the products you claim (without proof) they won't this generation.
I'm glad that you can admit that Intel gave little reason to increase their prices when they had single digit gains; however if you really wanted to go more cores, which has been their only recourse other than blowing past previous TDP, they definitely charged what they wanted to.
So after spending those billions of dollars, how have their nodes and fabs came along?
In regards to the Xe LP, which products are they in? However they've been using the "HD" iGPU since 2010...quite long in the tooth and the Vega arch has been in use since 2017. Furthermore we know that RDNA2 is used in the latest consoles; what's to preclude their usage in APUs?
You do realize that AVX was introduced in 2008 and AVX512 in 2013? Got any more recent examples that Intel has been spending billions on and out of magnanimity not been charging for?
Yes, Zen2 and Zen3 use the same node. Are you denying that more companies are going to 7nm and that is putting a pricing squeeze on AMD's non-contracted bids?
No IGP...except for the millions of console chips they need to produce as well as all the laptop/APU chips they sell.
It's rather rich that you claim I am making stuff up. Show one place where I have done anything comparable to your reaching deep up inside your anus and pulling out a steaming pile to stand on as a bully pulpit. For example:
- You made up the fact that AMD won't release the 5600.
- You made up the fact that AMD doesn't spend money developing iGPU.
- You made up the fact that "TX 3000 cards are sold significantly cheaper than the RTX 2000"
- You made up the fact that I take the position that AMD only makes quality products and I'm in love with them (here's a hint about how unbiased I am; this is typed on an Intel/Nvidia laptop, there's an all AMD build, several ARM machines, and an Amiga 3000).
- You made up the fact that I don't apply my logic consistently in regards to companies maximizing their profits.
- ETC, etc, etc.
And yes, Nvidia can price their cards as high as they want. When it's more than the market will bear the prices will have to be lowered. Nvidia can take all that extra money and keep investing in new technologies which drive the market forward. These higher price brackets allow their competition to price higher also and hopefully pull ahead of Nvidia thus pressuring Nvidia to lower their prices to maintain market share. It can be a yo-yo affect where there's 5 years of stagnation with ~10% performance increase each year or there can be cut throat competition that benefits the consumer.
Perhaps the (not my!) logic isn't so much twisted but not dumbed down enough that a simpleton can understand it?
Well, I can't be arsed to look at the TOS, so if you believe I responded in kind to your personal attacks throughout this thread by causing you to believe that I was insinuating a prevaricating dullard who is uncouth and of narrow life experience that was in all likelihood obtained through the matriarch's cellar...I guess I succeeded in making you read that into my post?
I really wish that I could explain it in simple enough terms for you to understand. Consumers have the money and want the product. Companies have the product and want the money. Consumers want to exchange as little money as possible for the product. Companies want to exchange as little product as possible for the money. Each side has something they value and so a fair exchange has to be made. The company offers the product for what they believe it's worth. The consumer either pays that because they believe it's worth it or they don't.
We can look back at RAMBUS. They had a product that they thought was worth quite a bit. The consumers didn't. RAMBUS tried to bully the consumers into exchanging their money for RAMBUS's product. That didn't work out. Why are you trying to take RAMBUS's tack and bully the company indirectly by being so pompous on forum(s) and attacking people?
Do you think that you should be arbiter of pricing? Should the economic system be torn down to suit your desires? How well does innovation march forward under a non-capitalistic society?
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