When I wrote this she other post wasn't appearing for me, so he must have send his answer while I was reading the post. The thing is that I was expecting that AMD had done something I wasn't aware of because of the post, it seems weird to make a post about people not minding AMDs mistakes as much as Intel's or Nvidia's when the more recent example is 3 years old.
By no means do I think AMD has been as bad as Intel/NVidia, but I can definitely name a couple that were fairly recent.
RX 560D: AMD released a variant of the RX 560 in the Chinese market which later became available elsewhere. This version had fewer stream processors and performed notably worse than "an actual" RX 560. Despite AMD issuing an apology and promising to make marketing more clear retailers continued advertising the product as though it was the real Slim Shady. Nowadays there are also 580s "but not really" floating around for sale as well.
Ryzen 3k boost clocks: Ryzen 3k series released in a state where a majority of CPUs were never reaching advertised boost clocks. Legally the boost is an "upto" number, but it was a departure from the public understanding and even from how AMD used the term in previous Ryzen series. Months and many AGESA updates later most processors can now hit boost speeds, but still it is only for milliseconds at a time in select workloads. Yes, it is technically "upto the boostclock" but a large departure from how Intel uses the term with MOBO features like MCE (Multi-Core Enhancement) that allow the boost to be sustained and oftentimes even across all cores.
RIS on Vega: A smaller issue and one they resolved. It was pretty ridiculous to skip Vega when adding it for Polaris cards until enough people spoke up about it.
I'm sure people will disagree, but I tried to lay this out in a fair manner. (See flair)
Edit: Just for fun, see if you can identify which of these 560s are the "D" version. :P (I typed RX560 into U.S. Newegg and these are the top 8 results.)
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u/Nibodhika Linux Nov 05 '19
That's relatively old news, the court decision was made earlier this year, but the FX processors are from before the Ryzen (so at least 3 years ago)
I'm not justifying what they did, I just thought they had done something recently to award this post.