5552

It lets AMD respond to any criticisms in the Nvidia reviews, power and heat will definitely be in there but maybe Nvidia screwed up elsewhere, and could convince people to buy AMD rather than Nvidia immediately before they go on sale.

5553

That makes sense, though they could still pull that off after the reviews go live and everyone’s already buzzing about their announcements, imo. But I’m not a marketing guy, maybe it does make more sense to address all that in one go in a stream that all eyes are on. I’d think if they felt that confident they could just make sure those same reviewers/enthusiast had copies of BIg Navi and let the results speak for themselves, too.

5554

If AMD shipped product to reviewers right now, sure. But it looks like they’re a couple weeks behind on that. Optimal time is the 16th, as Apple is doing their event on the 15th.

5555

They are announcing that they will announce an announcement in late October! So exciting! /s

Queue the booing.

5556

Boooooooooooooooooo!

5557

Wow. They would have been better off saying nothing yesterday, haha.

5558

Hmmm. Probably won’t get any Zen 3 info (other than leaks) until at least November then.

5559

I wouldn’t take that to say anything about Zen3 at all, really.

Rough news for AMD GPUs though.

5560

Question: if my gaming monitor (Acer Predator XB271HU) is g-sync, am I pretty much locked into nvidia cards?

5561

It’ll work fine with AMD GPUs but you won’t get variable refresh rates.

5562

That’s what I thought. I’ll stick to nvidia then!

5563

Boooooo. Late Oct. Even. That prolly means mid Nov until they’re available. Black Friday madness! Will be tough not to pull the trigger before then.

5564

Yep, everybody’s going to buy a 3070 or 3080 as soon as they can. By not announcing for 2 months, AMD will have to play catch-up.

5565

I am still waiting on a 3070 vs 3080 comparison. I guess I will not get that until the 3070 is actually out.
And when that finally happens, then if I decide to go with a 3070, it will be back-ordered.

5566

Yeah; AMD dropped the ball here, IMHO. I can only guess as to why. Maybe they’re doing some additional tweaks/refinements to better compete. But one way or another, they missed what looks like a golden opportunity.

As said above, this has nothing to do with Zen 3 although I’m sure someone there is plotting things out on a calendar.

5567

This makes me think they aren’t going to be able to compete with the 3xxx series on the level their tweets were hinting at, honestly.

5568

Not necessarily, all it means it’s they’re two months behind.

5569

Oh, I’m not stating facts, it just makes me think that. I can’t explain it.

5570

I think so too but if it’s not ready it’s not ready. How much it’ll hurt them will likely depend on how limited supplies are for the 30-series cards. If there’s a ton of people still unable to get their hands on one then the timing shouldn’t hurt them as bad as it otherwise could have.

5571

MLID was talking a couple weeks ago about how AMD’s Shanghai division only got the Big Navi recently. They’re still in the middle of driver development. So, yeah, they’re two months behind.