Stefan Mileschin

AMD cannot challenge this

It will be extremely hard and almost impossible for AMD to stay relevant in performance and high end gaming. With the introduction of Geforce Turing based 20 series RTX cards, Nvidia is putting in place a hard to reach distance between AMD Radeon graphics and Geforce. When we say Nvidia will rule high end in 2019, we of course mean the rest of 2018 too.

Withour Raja Koduri at the helm of Radeon, Geforce Touring will be very hard to defeat or even challenge. Raja’s team did well in making Radeon relevant again, winning significant market share but his exit put a stop to some important steps in Radeon development. Vega wasn’t as good as many expected but it was a step in the right direction.

For example, the fact that Vega 7nm won’t make it to a gaming part, at least not on something that competes with “reasonably” priced Geforce RTX non-Titan parts was tough but probably a reasonable decision.

AMD Radeon fanboys dream about some secret stealth project and AMD’s big splashes come back, but to all of our knowledge and almost 20 years in this industry, this is not happening.

Navi comes late to the game to fight in the mid market, most likely a few quarters after Nvidia launches 2060 RTX or a mainstream part of Turing architecture and a replacement for the GTX 1060.

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