AMD posts highest Q1 result ever — Strong CPU sales, but GPUs and gaming trail behind
AMD posts highest Q1 result ever — Strong CPU sales, but GPUs and gaming trail behind
I've always been an AMD cpu guy; my first pc had an AMD gpu and then i moved away to nvidia, but due to costs i now moved back to AMD and i got zero complaints.
Hell they finally got me too... They can thank Intel for royally fucking up 13-14 gen and then releasing a new chip that wasn't much better than previous ones to warrant the price.
I always built Intel PCs out of habit mostly, but I just got a 9800x3d last week for my rebuild.
Been AMD for years but went Intel for a media server due to the encoder and better idling power. I wish AMD would improve their video encoding.
Radeon RX 9000 series are amazing. Apparently sales are doing great, but obviously NVIDIA is holding monopoly and people are brainwashed to just buy NVIDIA no matter what.
Seemed like it was marginal improvement with focus on upscaling/framegen, which does not really interest me. I'm still really happy with my 6900 XT. Although, NVIDIA has been marginal improvement with significant TDP (💀) and price increase for several generations now, so whatever 🤷
I was surprised to see the 9070 xt at about double the 6800 xt performance in benchmarks, once ones with both of those started coming out.
I got it because I also see that if China does follow through with an attack on Taiwan, PC components are going to become very hard to find and very expensive while all of that production capacity is replaced. And depending on how things go after that, this might be the last GPU I ever buy.
40 series to 30 series was pretty tangible IMO (4090 gets something like 30-50% more perf in most tasks than 3090 Ti with the same TDP), in part thanks to the much higher L2 cache plus newer process node.
50 series was very poor though, probably because it's the same process node.
My ryzen 7 3700x is several years old now. It was a little finicky with what memory it liked but since working that out, it's been great. No complaints. I expect this system to last me at least another 5 years.
I upgraded to a 5700X from a 3600 this year to take advantage of some sales, no regrets. Wish I had the spare cash for a 9070XT, maybe next gen.
3800x here, I've been very happy with it. I don't see a need to upgrade. My 2070s, however... does not work very high-end with my ultra-wide monitor when playing AAA (or even AAAA!..) games lol.
Wish my 5800x had lasted :( It seems to have died after only 4 years.
Glad i already built a system and don't have to worry for a few years about upgrades unless something breaks. Also i'm Canadian so our tariff dispositions may be different.
Once again gamers are oppressed
Strong CPU
sales, but GPUs ... trail behind
I would help out their GPU sales if they were ever in stock.
I had luck with Microcenter last week (if you have one near you); checked their website at my preferred location and they had 9070 XTs in stock, went after work and I got one.
I have one about an hour away and no luck so far at that location.
Edit: oh damn, they are in stock today!
Edit2: it was one and now its gone :(
It's a huge gamble for manufacturers to order a large allocation of wafers a year in advance of actual retail sales. The market can shift considerably in that time. They probably didn't expect Nvidia to shit the bed so badly.
Wait, are you saying if they had more product, they could sell more product?
Sounds like voodoo economics to me!
The last time they had plenty of stock and cards people wanted to buy at the same time was the RX 200 series. They sold lots of cards, but part of the reason people wanted them was because they were priced fairly low because the cards were sold with low margins, so they didn't make a huge amount of money, helping to subsidise their CPU division when it was making a loss, but not more.
Shortly after this generation launched Litecoin ASIC mining hardware became available, so suddenly the used market was flooded with these current-generation cards, making it make little sense to buy a new one for RRP, so towards the end of the generation, the cards were sold new at a loss just to make space. That meant they needed to release the next generation cards to convince people to buy them, but as they were just a refresh generation (basically the same GPUs but clocked higher and with lower model numbers with only the top-end Fury card being new silicon) it was hard to sell 300-series cards when they cost more than equivalent 200-series ones.
That meant they had less money to develop Polaris and Vegas than they wanted, so they ended up delayed. Polaris sold okay, but was only available as low-margin low-end cards, so didn't make a huge amount of money. Vega ended up delayed by so long that Nvidia got an entire extra generation out, so AMD's GTX 980 competitor ended up being an ineffective GTX 1070 competitor, and had to be sold for much less than planned, so again, didn't make much money.
That problem compounded for years until Nvidia ran into their own problems recently.
It's not unreasonable to claim that AMD graphics cards being in stock at the wrong time caused them a decade of problems.