It's been four years since AMD launched RDNA, the successor to the venerable GCN graphics architecture. We take a look through the tech and numbers to see...
Raja oversaw the launch of an entirely new product into an existing market segment. And they did it during the toughest time out there. A pandemic with poor economic outcome. It wasn’t that the market didn’t take to the product. Just people are skittish about opening up their wallets today.
Intel essentially was one year too late and a year too early with their launch. If they had timed it earlier it would have been a home run during the pandemic fueled pc purchasing.
Arc launched with Ray Tracing, XeSS up scaling, and good performance per value. Their driver team is still working hard and launching home runs with each delivery. They only lack a high end GPU capable of 400 watt and frame generation technology.
Which to be absolutely fair to anybody, they aren’t expected to get right on the first product launch. NVIDIA is like on their 20 plus generation to this thing called a discrete graphics unit.
Yeah Raja didn’t do so hot for Intel, so I doubt the Radeon team suffered much with the loss…
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe Raja is a hardware guy. The issues Arc is facing are mostly software/API related. The hardware is sound.
Besides, Arc has far superior RT performance than Radeons, which is a pretty good indicator of what’s under the hood.
Raja oversaw the launch of an entirely new product into an existing market segment. And they did it during the toughest time out there. A pandemic with poor economic outcome. It wasn’t that the market didn’t take to the product. Just people are skittish about opening up their wallets today.
Intel essentially was one year too late and a year too early with their launch. If they had timed it earlier it would have been a home run during the pandemic fueled pc purchasing.
Arc launched with Ray Tracing, XeSS up scaling, and good performance per value. Their driver team is still working hard and launching home runs with each delivery. They only lack a high end GPU capable of 400 watt and frame generation technology.
Which to be absolutely fair to anybody, they aren’t expected to get right on the first product launch. NVIDIA is like on their 20 plus generation to this thing called a discrete graphics unit.
And a war that cause the relocation of the team responsible for the Arc drivers (in Russia) due to sanctions.
Can you elaborate more on this? This is the first time hearing about relocation for the driver team?
https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/x49nvq/intels_gpu_driver_development_was_disrupted_by/