Hello everyone,
This is a small rant / review of AMD this past few years.
Background:
I owned pretty much every single generational model of ATi/AMD consumer grade cards, and few enterprise/pro cards, and many NV cards too (though not all).
CPU wise, its a mix between Intel and AMD.
Lets start;
AMD has intentionally started to produce less GPU's, and CPU to keep them in demand, but they have no intention of meeting the demand. In short if there was 100 people who want to buy your product, AMD will only produce 40, and increase price due to high demand. Their response its to limit reseller market, as they are loosing money if there are too many cards. Ok fine, so if we pay you more what extra do we get from it?
.Well I don't know. Thats the AMD response. Nothing. You get the GPU or the CPU; each single generation its been getting worse, making less sense for someone to upgrade to new card - as its lacking features of other card. Integer upscaling? Sorry only 5700; You want fluidmotion? Sorry removed - only available on Vega cards; and list goes on.
Their support forum, moderation team, is rude if nothing else.
How are they rude?
"I'm not sure what kind of fix you are expecting" or no response at all for weeks, while one would expect "can't share any details right now, we are working on it or looking into it" but you will never get any professionalism from them. They stop close as to almost insult you, for asking for something.
then comes around the 7900 GPU's. While there aren't big problems in overclocking and such, which has been plague of new GPU's on AMD side; its much worse plague of bugged drivers. Its the missing features, features that should be working. Until recently the AMD transcode and h265 were broken. If you wanted to use parsec, moonlight and use it to stream, or connect to someone/something it wouldn't work. You cannot play newest releases of Witcher 3 dx11/dx12 without hairworks being broken. You cannot play newest cyberpunk 2077 as game crashes on start; and there's no solution for weeks since release; only option is to install older driver (one it first came out with.), and after few weeks of pleading with them / bumping stuff, and reporting it at least once a day; or ms teams bug / chromium bug where the driver will either freeze system or crash driver when you have parsec open/or a game and want to share you screen - I am under perspective AMD just doesn't care; so most expensive consumer card in ATi/AMD's history and you get almost 0 support, and whole lot of broken/unfinished features you can't use. When things work, its really fast... but that is if they work...
Worst part about it, there's no other option... Intel isn't there, and is the most broken driver wise i've ever seen.... hell even intel gma integrated ones from 2004 weren't broken as such... people expected intel iris but bigger, and better - but they got the most broken card, that isn't even doing stuff their integrated cards do...
NV on the other side is going crazy with prices, and power. Its like old meme with AMD v Intel about cores... but this is NV just giving bigger price for their products, while locking them down even further... making 4090/3090 cards literally only gaming cards with power delivery problem... and come with their own set of issues, about lying in bitrate, color ranges, and so on... producing much crappier colors.
Next part about spying... yes "sharing data" on amd side is only a toggle to make you feel alright, they took the pointers from MS i see... the release driver for 7900 literally records sites / screencaps what you are doing on the system every few minutes; and sending it over to whatever...
so here it is...
I'm not going to buy or recommend any hardware from them (for servers/desktops) until this changes; and I have patience of stone, and will of the stars.
This is a small rant / review of AMD this past few years.
Background:
I owned pretty much every single generational model of ATi/AMD consumer grade cards, and few enterprise/pro cards, and many NV cards too (though not all).
CPU wise, its a mix between Intel and AMD.
Lets start;
AMD has intentionally started to produce less GPU's, and CPU to keep them in demand, but they have no intention of meeting the demand. In short if there was 100 people who want to buy your product, AMD will only produce 40, and increase price due to high demand. Their response its to limit reseller market, as they are loosing money if there are too many cards. Ok fine, so if we pay you more what extra do we get from it?
.Well I don't know. Thats the AMD response. Nothing. You get the GPU or the CPU; each single generation its been getting worse, making less sense for someone to upgrade to new card - as its lacking features of other card. Integer upscaling? Sorry only 5700; You want fluidmotion? Sorry removed - only available on Vega cards; and list goes on.
Their support forum, moderation team, is rude if nothing else.
How are they rude?
"I'm not sure what kind of fix you are expecting" or no response at all for weeks, while one would expect "can't share any details right now, we are working on it or looking into it" but you will never get any professionalism from them. They stop close as to almost insult you, for asking for something.
then comes around the 7900 GPU's. While there aren't big problems in overclocking and such, which has been plague of new GPU's on AMD side; its much worse plague of bugged drivers. Its the missing features, features that should be working. Until recently the AMD transcode and h265 were broken. If you wanted to use parsec, moonlight and use it to stream, or connect to someone/something it wouldn't work. You cannot play newest releases of Witcher 3 dx11/dx12 without hairworks being broken. You cannot play newest cyberpunk 2077 as game crashes on start; and there's no solution for weeks since release; only option is to install older driver (one it first came out with.), and after few weeks of pleading with them / bumping stuff, and reporting it at least once a day; or ms teams bug / chromium bug where the driver will either freeze system or crash driver when you have parsec open/or a game and want to share you screen - I am under perspective AMD just doesn't care; so most expensive consumer card in ATi/AMD's history and you get almost 0 support, and whole lot of broken/unfinished features you can't use. When things work, its really fast... but that is if they work...
Worst part about it, there's no other option... Intel isn't there, and is the most broken driver wise i've ever seen.... hell even intel gma integrated ones from 2004 weren't broken as such... people expected intel iris but bigger, and better - but they got the most broken card, that isn't even doing stuff their integrated cards do...
NV on the other side is going crazy with prices, and power. Its like old meme with AMD v Intel about cores... but this is NV just giving bigger price for their products, while locking them down even further... making 4090/3090 cards literally only gaming cards with power delivery problem... and come with their own set of issues, about lying in bitrate, color ranges, and so on... producing much crappier colors.
Next part about spying... yes "sharing data" on amd side is only a toggle to make you feel alright, they took the pointers from MS i see... the release driver for 7900 literally records sites / screencaps what you are doing on the system every few minutes; and sending it over to whatever...
so here it is...
I'm not going to buy or recommend any hardware from them (for servers/desktops) until this changes; and I have patience of stone, and will of the stars.
