AMD - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc

Ill believe it when I see it. NVDA will respond I imagine. Alot of AMDs past issues have been driver related

 

I have and it turned me off from them. I think its a short from here.

 

This card is the best price per performance card. It has async. built into it's hardware. You can build a 1080p rig with this card and play vr games with less then 700 bucks on ultra settings! On top of that, this card shows huge upside potential with Windows 10 games dx 12, vulkan and Linux. I going long. If u want a gtx1080 killer wait for vega, ,or rx490 to compete with the 1070.

 

After going negative a couple cents AMD now moving back into green slightly. It appears there is some minor short covering. I saw a 50k trade drop on the bid and it moved up from there. Still to early to make a daily call. That official announcement of sell out on the 480 would definitely give it a good pop should it happen. But who knows news could be tomorrow or later.
Careful if your shorting as you may walk into a bull trap...happened before...Slighty higher than NVDA right now

 

whats going on? who stopped the train. Give me back my $5.40 this morning

 

As AMD is teetering on the low end but on very heavy volume, the 480's are going fast.

 

Definitely being shorted right now. I seen 3 trades at the ask that equaled 110K that couldn't move the price. Maybe Brendan is pushing the price down

 

Never heard of this before but interesting for the gamer's

AMD FreeSync – coming soon to a TV near you?
An AMD big wig has said that he expects to see a rapid adoption of the company's FreeSync technology in TVs as soon as 2016 – news that will be music to the ears of gamers who prefer to play in the living room on their big screens.
Read more at http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/amd-freesync-coming-to-a-tv-near-you?source=rss

 

Look at this.

 

I posted that earlier this morning but it good to look at it again. I think Amazon may be one of the biggest sources of online sales and a good sign as they are sold out.

 

Yup
I am personally pushing it down

 

Nothing official yet but here is the most current info out there. I have highlighted what I think is the most important. Nothing on sales other than what was posted earlier today.

The Good
CyberPowerPC Puts AMD's RX 480 And Nvidia's GTX 1080 In An AIO
The second configuration option, called the Arcus 34 Elite, is considerably more powerful, with an Intel i5-6600K and an AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB GPU. According to our tests of the AMD Radeon RX 480 8 GB, it trades blows with Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 970 and should be perfectly suitable for gaming at 3K resolutions. As this configuration also has a faster CPU, and it comes with twice as much storage space, this seems to be a far superior option than the Arcus 34 Core.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/cyberpowerpc-arcus34-amd-rx-480-nvidia-gtx-1080,32175.html

The Questionable
AMD “looking into” RX480 PCIE compliance failure reports
AMD’s new RX480 card has launched today, which means benchmarks and power efficiency tests galore popping up across the internet. Among the many articles, reviewers at Tom’s Hardware reported something troubling regarding power draw on the PCI Express slot.

In their testing, they found that the RX480 they had received for review drew 86W through the PCIE slot. That’s 11W above the maximum 75W specification required to meet compliance.

AMD’s Senior VP and Chief Architect Raja Koduri was fortuitously present for an ‘Ask Me Anything’ event earlier today, and addressed the issue when asked (‘gfxchiptweeter’ is Koduri).

“We have extensive testing internally on our PCIE compliance and RX480 passed our testing,” he writes. “However we have received feedback from some of the reviewers on high current observed on PCIE in some cases. We are looking into these scenarios as we speak and reproduce these scenarios internally. Our engineering team is fully engaged.”

If widespread, the non-compliant power draw would be a serious issue for AMD. However, there are other possibilities. The card received for review at Tom’s could be faulty in some way, or something went array with the testing. Reviewers were working with cards that could flash the BIOS to use either 4GB or 8GB of VRAM (to save sending a pair of cards to everyone, presumably), so that’s another difference between review and market models.

For now, it’s something for AMD’s engineers to take a good look at.

Update: A further comment from AMD states that the RX480 met ‘Peripheral Component Interconnect Special Interest Group’ (PCI-SIG) compliance testing. So it passed external industry testing as well as internal tests.

“Obviously there are a few GPUs exhibiting anomalous behavior, and we’ve been in touch with these reviewers for a few days to better understand their test configurations to see how this could be possible,” that post says. “We will have more on this topic soon as we investigate, but it’s worth reminding people that only a very small number of hundreds of RX 480 reviews worldwide encountered this issue.”
http://www.pcinvasion.com/amd-looking-rx480-pcie-compliance-failure-reports

 

Bears show up everywhere on StockTwits due to the Reddit thread.

 

Here are some reddit threads @leonx81 refers to:

PCI-E Specification discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterra...at_amd_the_time_has_come_to_ama_about/d4smb2m

AMD employee AMA thread : https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterra...at_amd_the_time_has_come_to_ama_about/d4smb2m

AMD Representative Responses for all questions: https://www.reddit.com/user/gfxchiptweeter

Let's hope it is an issue they can quickly address. Seems like PCIE compliance testing was successful based on their internal tests but they are still looking into the matter

 

StockTwits reminds me of the old Raging Bull, too many bashers and pumpers and very little DD but what can you do in a 140 character post.

 

Very true! I have that installed on my phone as sometimes I can get the latest update from there.