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RX Toaster, they need to pull some magic out of the chip with upcoming drivers, otherwise this won't be the big return everyone expected, I feel. I just hope t

RX Toaster, they need to pull some magic out of the chip with upcoming drivers, otherwise this won't be the big return everyone expected, I feel. I just hope the MI25 cards will be far cheaper than the $6k Tesla P100's and that the ROCm stack is good enough so for compute the architecture may still be a viable and very competitive option.

microcolonel 9y ago
On the Open Source Linux OpenGL drivers (but not the proprietary ones), it is competitive with the 1080Ti at considerably lower MSRP and real retail price (once stocks recover from the most hyped GPU launch since... the Geforce 9800GTX? I don't even know). Power to performance ratios are also not well shown with the current shipping proprietary drivers; frankly I don't understand how AMD can't seem to get that team to deliver stellar day-one drivers for every launch, it is what it is I guess.
- slizard 9y ago
  > On the Open Source Linux OpenGL drivers (but not the proprietary ones), it is competitive with the 1080Ti at considerably lower MSRP Yaaay! Really, that's cool but it's a negligible fraction of the market. Unless Linux gaming becomes a market force overnight, it won't matter a lot, I think. > Power to performance ratios are also not well shown with the current shipping proprietary driver I doubt they can close the large power gap that the initial benchmarks show (compared to the 1080 and esp. 1070), but I'm hoping the power margin will get narrower and a bit of performance increase might compensate too. Indeed, I am dampening my expectations, I'm most hopeful that in the high-end GPGPU compute arena they might not be too late and will provide enough Perf/W/buck to gain traction.