In my opinion, as long as AMD has the current strategy, it will always be behind Nvidia, because they don’t care about their discrete GPU business, they care about their customised hardware business first, and the discrete GPUs are just cheap knockoffs (nvidia -100€=AMD dGPU) released for some additional profit on the side.
That’s what’s keeping the lights on. If they sunk the extra billions into making their discrete cards genuinely superior to Nvidia’s (which already means taking it for granted that selling comparable products for less money makes them knockoff rather than superior), then Nvidia could stop them recouping the development costs by eating into their own margins to drop their prices. Over the last decade or two, ATi/AMD’s big gambles have mostly not paid off, whereas Nvidia’s have, so AMD can’t afford to take big risks, and the semi-custom part of the business is huge long-term orders that mean guaranteed profit.
Stay focused on raster performance please! Don’t waste time with all this ML shit!
You will play a blurry mess upscaled from 720p to 4k and 3 fake frames for every frame and you will like it!
Bad news there. Both Nvidia and AMD focus first on ML now days. As a side effect GPUs continue to be able to do raster stuff.
AMDs upcoming UDNA is all about repurposing their better AI focused pipeline. Nvidia has been selling defective (binned) AI GPUs as gaming GPUs for years. They make the ML focused GPU, and if it has too many defects they turn it into a xx90/xx80/dx70 etc.
shocked, i tell you
