DoomedMan I wish I had a dollar for every time an AMD fanboy predicted that Radeon++ would be the one that restores AMD to their rightful place on the graphics throne.
Then fast forward a few months: “well, it may not be the best right now, but just wait a couple years when it gets better drivers and games are optimized for it! I bet Radeon is gonna have longer legs”
Then fast forward a year: “hooooo boy, Radeon++ is shaping up to be a real beast. Nvidia is in trouble this time!!”
Yuuupppp
I was on that underdog train since ATI days, way back in late 90’s.
Oh, wait till AMD’s unified drivers
Oh, wait for AMD’s (insert name I have forgotten because it was irrelevant) drivers
Oh, wait when computing will be important, clearly an advantage!
Etc etc. At Pascal I switched to Nvidia.
RDNA 2 had the same kind of wild rumours too before official specs. Forums had like BVH performances that would be 4 times Nvidia’s ! OMG, it’s gonna
crush Nvidia when console games with ray tracing get ports to PC and made for AMD.. 4GHz? I think my Taiwanese uncle that sees samples of AMD saw that number! Oh my gosh!
It’s all crap till we see unveilings (Nvidia rumours too btw, same nonsense), and then even until we test them.
But yes!!! This is the one. This is the time that Nvidia somehow makes the mistake of not going MCM (they aren’t too good with architecture/cost optimization), that competition gets a quantic universe siphoning for out of nowhere clocks, less heat and less wattage, literally breaking the laws of physics. Oh they also sit on their throne and stopped R&D (as usual Nvidia!!) and make some intel / Ryzen analogy to all that, somehow.
Poor Nvidia