Intel are heralding their new Haswell processor architecture as a game-changer for gaming ultrabooks and small form factor gaming machines. Their competitors AMD predictably have serious doubts about Intel’s ability to compete when it comes to PC gaming.
Poor Xbox sales have affected AMD’S bottom line
Oh wow. How surprising! Nvidia overpriced their RTX cards by +100% and AMD instead of offering real competition, decided to join Nvidia in their greedy approach, while not having the same mindshare as Nvidia (sadly) does. The 7900 launch was a marketing disaster. All the reviews were made while the card was not worth the money at all, they lowered the price a bit later on, but not only not enough but also too late and out of "free marketing" window coming along with the new card generation release. Then the geniuses at AMD axed the high-end SKUs with increased cache etc, cause "nobody will buy expensive cards to play games" while Nvidia laughed at them selling their 2000€ 4090s.
Intel had all the mindshare among PC enthusiasts with their CPUs. All it took was a competetive product and good price (Ryzen 7000 series and especially 7800x3d) and guess what? AMD regained the market share in DYI PCs in no time! The same could've have happened with Radeon 5000, Radeon 6000 and Radeon 7000.
But meh. Why bother. Let's cancell high-end RDNA 4 and use the TSMC wafers for AI and then let the clueless "analysts" make their articles about "gaming demand dwingling".
I'm sure low-end, very overpriced and barely faster if not slower RDNA4 will turn things around. It will have AI and RT! Two things nobody asked for, especially not gamers who'd like to use the PC for what's most exciting about PC gaming (VR, high framerate gaming, hi-res gaming).
8000 series will be slow, overpriced and marketed based on its much improved RT/AI... and it will flop badly.
And there will be no sane conclusions made at AMD about that. There will be just one, insane: Gaming is not worth catering to. Let's go into AI/RT instead, what could go wrong..."
Well that's gonna happen when you don't really try. I want to support AMD so badly and give Nvidia some actual competition but they don't very much seem interested in challenging, by their own accord. I been waiting for them to attack the GPU segment the same way they took over CPU, but they just seem so content with handing Nvidia the market year after year, and it's happening again this year with their cancelled high end card.
AMD prcied their cards thinking that they will sell out just like in the mining craze. I suspect reality has hit home when they realized most gamers cannot afford to spend over $500 for a gpu.
AMD has long been the best value option if you're looking for a new GPU. Now even their latest Radeon RX 7000 series is getting cheaper.
The frustrating Intel Raptor Lake CPU issues continue to make their presence known, this time in the South Korean gaming community.
Can't we all just get along?
Since AMD is pretty much getting ALL the console dev support they'll be dominating also PC game support. Games will be GPU-intensive with the CPU doing not as much work (CPUs are Intel's specialization after all).
The title is misleading. It implies all Intel Cpu's but the article actually reflects that it is only talking about the apu units between the two companies. And of course amd has the better apu cause that's where half of their staff resources have been the past 3 years but Intel still has better cpu's for a traditional cpu+dedicated gfc setup. In years to come like maybe 2017 apu's might be powerful enough to handle high def gaming by themselves but currently they still lack the power a true gaming rig setup offers. I hope amd makes some breakthroughs because apus are much easier and cheaper to make which would open the door for many gamers who are scared or can't budget the pc gaming price. I am a pc gamer myself and i role intel + nvidia nowadays but i know amd has intelligence and drive in their company . I rememberwWhen the athlon 64 line came out and it blew intel out of the water, I can't wait for that kind of competition to resurface.
I'll still take an Intel CPU over anything from AMD.
But I do prefer their cards over Nvidias.
AMD said with an evil grin. heh