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 would help out their GPU sales if they were ever in stock.
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!
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.
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.
Wish my 5800x had lasted :( It seems to have died after only 4 years.
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 🤷
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.
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.
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