Why do people keep bashing AMD's new GPU currently?

[Willco2]

Every single video I have seen about the Frontier Edition of AMD's latest GPU has just been bashing it in benchmarks (that aren't even professional type work loads) because it can't keep up with a GTX 1080. AMD has gone on record multiple times saying "this isnt a gaming gpu," "we'll unveil the gaming ones at the end of the month" and yet people are just like "lol it costs over $1000 and cant keep up with a 1080 bad card dont buy ecks dee." Sorry if I sound like a raging AMD fanboy or something, but its getting really annoying that people are judging Vega in games before it's even had a big consumer release.

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[PhantOS]

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[Insert Name Here²]

Because you'd expect a 1000+ gpu to outperform sub 600-500 ones.

[Mr Queeba]

Because you'd expect a 1000+ gpu to outperform sub 600-500 ones.

this card is not really optimized for gaming applications. its really for servers and creative stuff and things like that and not games. it's expensive because the stuff in it is really good for server stuff.
being a fan of amd ever since ryzen came out, this is kind of sad to see that people are ignorant like this.
edit: changed some wording

[Willco2]

this card is not really optimized at all for gaming applications. its really for servers and stuff like that and not games. it's expensive because the stuff in it is really good for server stuff.
being a fan of amd ever since ryzen came out, this is kind of sad to see that people are ignorant like this.

THIS BOY GETS IT

[e-maxx]

AMD's frontend > nvidia's frontend

[joe411]

But why would you need a gpu for a server? Wouldn't a gpu be more useful for a client?

[Mr Queeba]

But why would you need a gpu for a server? Wouldn't a gpu be more useful for a client?

the frontier edition is actually meant for deep learning / neural network stuff which can be accelerated by a gpu, as well as creative workloads and some game development

[joe411]

the frontier edition is actually meant for deep learning / neural network stuff which can be accelerated by a gpu, as well as creative workloads and some game development

ah, that makes sense

[Ipquarx]

But why would you need a gpu for a server? Wouldn't a gpu be more useful for a client?

because it's for specialized applications which require massive amounts of raw parallel computing power
GPUs are perfect for this because they have thousands of cores in a single unit

It's not even remotely meant for gaming or consumer-level *anything* really

[Mr Queeba]

and yes, amd has clearly said that the rx cards will be much better built for gaming tasks

[joe411]

So it's like Nvida quadro?

[Mr Queeba]

actually apparently some rendering tasks a quadro does better at than the fe so uh yea
rip

edit: uh im beginning to change my mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHb7fC5zUdU

[Willco2]

i still cant wait for the consumer grade vega cards, 1070-ish performance from AMD would be awesome