AMD Hate thread? AMD Hate thread.
So far the Radeon RX Series has been a huge dissapointment. All of them have different retail prices than what they originally were stated to be first off. The RX 480 was ok, but was made pointless by the better 1060.
The RX 470 had almost no difference in specs, price, or performance from the 480, basically making it 480 variant (non referance), when we were hoping for a $150 card with performance between the GTX 960 and 970.
With the announcement the RX 490 was a dual gpu (something most people just don't want) our last hope for a decent card was the RX 460. And today we found out that was very much not true.
We all knew it was going to be an entry level card (which was supposed to cost 100 but bumped up to 110) but we all hoped it would be a better entry level card than any other, since technology evolves year by year instead what we got was almost EXACTLY LIKE A GTX 950, but with higher power consumption, higher temperatures, and a lack of multi gpu support (except for the XFX version, which nobody will buy because it's XFX). And of course, at pretty much the same price.
Could this card have been good? Yes, AMD could have encouraged low power half height half width cards, making it a great card to power up any old office or home computer, like the great MSI Geforce GTX 750 Ti. If the RX 460 isn't put into a design like that for a CHEAPER PRICE, this card will remain at a low tier level.
And for all this buzz about these Zen leaks, please remember that a AMD cpu will probably not be better than a mid-high end Intel cpu like the i5-4670k. And if a new Zen cpu is even close to that kind of performance, it will be much hotter and take much more power. And the pricing will probably be similar too.
Stop buying from this company. I will not feel sad if they go out of buisness and Nvidia controlls the market, at least they know how to make quality cards.
