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In the seventh episode of ‘Leo Says' – our grumpy guru Leo discusses the state of graphics in 2017, AI potentially killing the human race, The new Nvidia Titan V, AMD in Mac and VR being ‘stillborn'.
He even airs his views on the topic of fanboys – and just how much they are willing to ignore for the sake of a company.
00:42 Tesla developing AI chips – Elon Musk says we're doomed
03:32 Toshiba 14TB HDD with reference to 12TG WD on kitGuru
05:09 Dismal year for graphics
06:18 VR gaming appears to be stillborn
06:52 Nvidia Titan V follows Titan, Titan X, Titan X Pascal and Titan Xp
08:47 12nm FinFET N process
09:18 Will Nvidia skip Volta GeForce for Ampere?
10:49 AMD graphics in iMac, consoles and other musings
14:40 AMD cuts the spec of RX560
Read Western Digital 12TB review here: https://goo.gl/QE2YNC
See Nvidia Titan V benchmarks here: https://goo.gl/TFUBZb
KitGuru says: Be sure to let us know your thoughts and if you agree (or disagree) with LEO. Love him, or hate him- he says it, cause he means it.
Hello Kitgurus,
Couple of things based on AMD in iMacs etc. Firstly Nintendo switched (boom boom) to Nvidia for the Switch. Their previous platform series was PPC+Ati/AMD for the GameCube->Wii->Wii U.
The one area that Nvidia doesn’t like to work on is doing custom versions of their hardware or to let partners do their own refinements based on NV’s tech. AMD by necessity has moved to the partnering model. That is part of the reason why RTG is ran independent of AMD CPUs. That way there is no conflict with their partners. Apple likes to have as much in house as possible, AMD seems to be more ready to make custom versions of their hardware and Apple see underneath the bonnet. You can see this is the very interestingly optimised Xbox One X SOC, Apple having Radeon Pro cards, which appear to be Mobile RX series based, but with some special sauce just for Apple. You also get odd situations like Nvidia and AMD CPU high-fiving about Threadripper+Titan XP together.
As for Leo’s suggestion that AMD is less focused on traditional PC Gaming, I think that might cast a different light on Raja moving to Intel. Maybe AMD doesn’t want the low margin’s on PC Gaming, where they have to cut margins to the bone to even hope to sell against NV. Raja really is a gaming guy and if RTG’s business is partnering first, then compute and then last PC gaming, well you can see why Intel might have seemed like the place to go to.
Part of me wishes that NV would buy Via and then we could have a three way X86+GPU battle ;), but that is pie in the sky.
Arrr… Still no coverage on GPD Win2? Sneak peaks and specs already out….