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    AMD claws back discrete graphics market share

    Analysts say that AMD has gained ground at the $200 and $400 price points.
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    Re: AMD claws back discrete graphics market share

    I wonder how AMD will do now, the 3XX while they are rebrands they are still good cards for their money and the dx12 support will give them a good selling point (before pascal is out at least).

    Also I want to see what is going on with the fury line because I haven't seen much availability and seems like a wasted opportunity since they can perform pretty nice for the price.

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    Re: AMD claws back discrete graphics market share

    Well, I hope so, I'm buying a whole new PC with an R9 390 and I don't want to be left with a GPU from a dying company.

    I'd go for a R9 390X, but over $100 premium for extra 10% performance, which, if I'm lucky, I'll get from overclocking, wouldn't be money well spent. And even if I get a poorly overclocking unit, it'll still be a decent performer. Maybe I'll even add a second one at the end of the year...

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    Re: AMD claws back discrete graphics market share

    I think that AMD suffer from the "old tech, rebranded" train of thought (amongst those who have some knowledge of graphics), whereas nVidia can seem to be new tech developers.
    Most folk though have absolutely no idea or actual interest in graphics, as long as their devices perform to the level they want. Bigger numbers impress though, so a salesperson/flyer saying graphics XXXX is 4GB while xx is only 2GB can help garner a sale.

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    Re: AMD claws back discrete graphics market share

    Personally my ageing HD 6950 2GB (with unlocked pipes) is still playing all my games fine in fine detail up to the max resolution on my monitor of 1200P.

    I'm holding off 'til at least the Rx 4xx series and hoping AMD finally puts rebranding to bed.

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    Re: AMD claws back discrete graphics market share

    Quote Originally Posted by Myss_tree View Post
    I think that AMD suffer from the "old tech, rebranded" train of thought (amongst those who have some knowledge of graphics)
    Let's not forget how various 9800 were rebranded 8800. And that even the GTX was 9800GTX+

    My guess is that it is not really the goal of either company to rebrand over and over, but it is a delay tactic when for one reason or another, they could not get their next big thing in the market on time. Missing even one product cycle can prove fatal to a company (re: 3DFX).

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    Re: AMD claws back discrete graphics market share

    Quote Originally Posted by TooNice View Post
    Let's not forget how various 9800 were rebranded 8800. And that even the GTX was 9800GTX+
    And the GTS 250.

    Even the GT 720M is still a Fermi GPU...

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    Re: AMD claws back discrete graphics market share

    Quote Originally Posted by TooNice View Post
    My guess is that it is not really the goal of either company to rebrand over and over, but it is a delay tactic when for one reason or another, they could not get their next big thing in the market on time. Missing even one product cycle can prove fatal to a company (re: 3DFX).
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    Re: AMD claws back discrete graphics market share

    I don't really care about rebranding, staying on the bleeding edge of graphics cards technology is a fool's game. New technologies need a lot of time to get into games, by the time those technologies actually get used the graphics cards they debuted on can't even run them well. Give me memory bandwidth and TFLOPS, that is value in hand and it keeps the GPU relevant for a longer time.

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    Re: AMD claws back discrete graphics market share

    I think there're two aspects to the rebrand cycle.

    One is that it can look bad for a company to have a mix of "generations" in their catalogue: so AMD *could* have just released an R9 290X and left the rest of their cards in retail as 7000 series. The problem is once you've got a new card with a new "generation" of naming, it makes the other cards look old and out of date - particularly to the everyday consumer (you know, the ones who think *any* graphics card with 4GB of RAM is a good buy!). So you *need* to rebrand if you don't have a full roster of parts to fill the market.

    The other is the demand of big box OEMs: they like to refresh their range every year and they like their new generation of desktops and laptops to have new generation *everything* in them. So there's a real driver for an annual release of some kind, which often doesn't fit with the technology cycles in GPU development. So nvidia and AMD have the option of rebranding or risking those OEM design wins. There was an entire Radeon 8000 series of GPUs that were never sold at retail, because they were specifically branded for OEM system integrators to feel like they were putting new tech in their new computers.

    I suspect the reason we never saw Oland-based retail 7000 series cards was because AMD wanted *something* new to release to retail under the R7 brand when it came time: so the R7 240 and 250 were genuinely new parts to the AMD desktop retail product stack. As with all companies, AMD's strategy has to be driven by market forces. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't rebrand if they didn't think they had to, and the PC market has been pushed so far towards the consumer electronics market over the last 5 years or so that it's no surprise that product refresh cycles are having to be forced where they don't fit naturally....

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