• confusescountrynames@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    It’s funny how they call the 5870 the best AMD GPU of all time.

    They are not wrong, but it’s also their biggest strategic mistake ever: right when they had Nvidia in the ropes and had a chance to crush them with top of the line performance by an insane margin, they decided on they brain dead small die strategy, leaving an escape route for a Nvidia to still remain on top with absolute performance even if their performance per area was a disaster.

    It’s just another example of AMD marketing shooting themselves in the foot.

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      1 year ago

      Yup. NVIDIA was able to pull ahead simply through brute force. Sure they ran hot and consumed a lot of power but that was negligible when they were doubling performance every generation.

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      1 year ago

      AMD didn’t have an alternative other than to go “small” die, since they needed margins and they couldn’t execute huge dies given their cost.