[BIGPADDY]

Hi All

AMD announce there new series of graphics cards a few weeks ago looks very interesting:

AMD's graphics card comeback: the new R7 series, R9 series and Mantle

AnandTech Portal | AMD Announces Next Generation Radeon R7 and R9 Video Cards

AnandTech Portal | AMD Radeon R9 290X Performance Preview: Bioshock Infinite

[Laura Knotek]

That's interesting. I've liked Intel/Nvidia better than AMD in recent years.

[BIGPADDY]

That's interesting. I've liked Intel/Nvidia better than AMD in recent years.

Yeah NVIDIA have better stability in there drivers than AMD have for there's.

[Keith Wallace]

It's always something that I think AMD has been a bit screwed on (though I have both an AMD CPU and an ATi GPU--from right before the brand went away). Intel had gobs os money, while AMD is basically broke. However, it's expected to compete with Intel in the CPU space and Nvidia (not sure how their financials compare to AMD's) i nthe GPU space. Take that, then add in the fact that they're looking at releasing some ARM stuff next year, and you wonder if they're going to find a market (other than consoles) where they can turn a profit.

[BIGPADDY]

It's always something that I think AMD has been a bit screwed on (though I have both an AMD CPU and an ATi GPU--from right before the brand went away). Intel had gobs os money, while AMD is basically broke. However, it's expected to compete with Intel in the CPU space and Nvidia (not sure how their financials compare to AMD's) i nthe GPU space. Take that, then add in the fact that they're looking at releasing some ARM stuff next year, and you wonder if they're going to find a market (other than consoles) where they can turn a profit.

I think AMD will get the boost from both next gen consoles having AMD SoC and graphics however it where they focus that extra money or how they use it. If they do go into the mobile section next year they really need to bring something extra to compete with those that have been making and improving there SoC for years and intel also already started a year (I think) in the mobile market with there SoC.

So AMD really got to be sensible and concrete where the market going which is with Mobile and bring out a SoC which will compete against the best for next year and get it into top branded phone, which maybe hard to due just have to wait and see what they release for next year. Or they make a budget SoC for the low end devices with good performance and battery life.

[Keith Wallace]

ARM is where AMD might be able to beat or match Intel, since they seem to bring the better graphics power to their chips, such as the Kabini-Bay Trail comparisons. It could even be something where AMD coudl offer non-Apple OEMs a means of providing better GPU power than what Qualcomm does, so they can match up with Apple's Ax SoCs in graphical power. Of course, it's about 12 months too soon to even start wondering what the efforts will become.