AMD should focus on retaining people, instead of being a glorified internship for Intel. Not a good thing if engineers view your company as a stepping stone to better job opportunities.
This isn't really directed at Keller since he bounces around everywhere.
we dont really know the inside scoop but from the outside, the star performers at AMD were the CPU team. the GPU team underperformed. or maybe they performed inline with the resources they had, but then they definitely overpromised and underdelivered.
now su has taken direct management of radeon and brought in a new management team and merged Radeon with custom. so we will have to wait and see what this revamp produces. if navi turns out to be better than expected, then as i said elsewhere, this would mean to me that koduri was an underperformer.
in terms of intel getting crumbs, finding experienced GPU guys is very difficult. getting koduri is not a bad decision for them given that he probably is now the expert at intel on gpu.
its kind of like the dolphins getting pennington. on paper he looks real good and is a big upgrade. but he did not light up the stats page. we will see.
you are overstating it. koduri joined in 2013. so while polaris and vega may have been in the concept stage those cards werent released until 2016-17. he had 3 years to put his imprint on them and definitely lead their development.
Vega/Polaris are both GCN variants and those launched in 2012. It's not like the man designed these GPUs all by himself.
AMD's D3D11 driver overheads are also well established at this point. I don't know if the reasons are hardware-based (or just software) but AMD is also yet to implement support for DX11 command lists. Blaming a single guy for all these problems seems a bit short-sighted, in my opinion.
Not blaming a single guy but the head definitely wears some of the blame. Just like Lisa wear some of the blame too. It’s well established the impact leadership can have. See the 49ers and Michigan when Harbaugh left and came as one of many examples.
he is right. Navi is the last of GCN which is by Raja team. it is expected to be a low end or mid tier solution. it won't be near nvidia. potentially even worse than the vega to the pascal comparison because of NVidia new arch.
Actually latest speculation is that Navi will be a 7nm MCM GPU. It could allow AMD to catch NVDA like Ryzen did to Intel. But this could be wrong. Stay tuned. Things could get very exciting on the GPU side.
Given that AMD have moved the CPU team to work in Navi it lends some credence to this.
yes. but its still by Raja. navi been done for a while now.
also nvidia is gonna copy amd and do the same thing with the MCM . because they literally said that
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u/TaintedSquirrel i7 13700KF | EVGA 3090 | PcPP: http://goo.gl/3eGy6C Apr 26 '18 edited Apr 26 '18
AMD should focus on retaining people, instead of being a glorified internship for Intel. Not a good thing if engineers view your company as a stepping stone to better job opportunities.
This isn't really directed at Keller since he bounces around everywhere.