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I imagine AMD will sell everything they make. I don't expect they are going to make a ton of these. Seems like a paper flagship. Not that they won't be on the market, I"m just not expecting anyone to have 100s of them on a shelf. Folks that were buying 9950x3d chips would likely be willing to shell a bit more for the ^2. Your correct though I don't think these are going to be landing on any sales charts.
Ya, I kind of feel this same way. I personally do not care about the "drama" really, I just want good solid reliable info around products to help make decisions. Seems a common feeling from some reddit replies to the video's also, with many asking when he flipped his rocker, and it being noted it has been happening for the last little while, went from good solid reviews, to just long drawn out rants now..
I really doubt you do not know of techpowerup or phoronix or igorlabs
I think that speculative, like igor seem to think:
"I stopped paying attention to sites that talk about what sucks in the industry"
Tech Jesus got political and started crowd funding documentaries, so he could take trips to China to talk politics.
Considering I did not saw a single B100, B200 or GB200 in it, not a single significant Nvida or AMD based computer (there was some under 20 gpus that had ampere generation in them to fill it up that fit in a closet), he was proving like the others newsources that it was working really well.
I would counter that is a reporters job.... not of a Hardware review Youtube channel.
It's clear that GN is not just a hardware review channel anymore. Hell, they spun off onto another channel dedicated to consumer advocacy.
Tech IS politics and politics IS tech. You may not like it, but it is the reality. Sticking your head in the sand won't save you from the results. And if you care about tech, you must first change the politics. It is a sorry state of affairs, but it is the state now.
Oh its their choice.
Are we all agreeing GN is the pinnacle of review sites or something?
I'm assuming you didn't watch the linked GN video, but...yeah, Steve says as much, they are not shocked by this at all. They don't mind having to buy the hardware, they are just pointing out AMD's actions and what appears to be at play.Oh its their choice.
I'm simply saying when billion dollar corporations start treating you that way don't act shocked.
Their main goals don't seem to be to review tech anymore. Which is find such is their right. But if your going to be a consumer advocate your going to have to BUY a lot of hardware to review. To expect to be in on all the zero day PR review samples when that isn't what you intend to do with the hardware your given should be no shock at all. BUT shock face rage bait thumbnail for Youtube engage.
What appears to be at play to me to be honest. Is this CPU is a direct market reaction to Intels new chips becoming a solid production use case threat. These chips are very good at production workloads. As Micheal at phoronix has shown in his review.
To be fair these are now the best AI/Database/compiling CPUs you can buy without going to threadripper or epyc server parts. They are quite a bit faster then either of the other 9950 parts in very very specific things. AMD seems to have seeded product to reviewers that would review those things.
Less so but they still market it to gamers (https://www.amd.com/en/newsroom/pre...-ryzen-9-9950x3d2-dual-edition-processor.html), maybe HUB of the world were not a perfect target.
Hardware unboxed is a gaming first channel and they got one, there does not seem by people that looked at their list around the word to draw much conclusion on the strategy, if there was one, could have had been different people by market region deciding what to do with their limited amounts.
Yes he got one https://forum.level1techs.com/t/9950x3d2-benchmarks-now-with-curve-optimizer/249182,
Fair point on HUB getting one. Though if I was going to defend AMD on that one. They are from Australia... could have been a X # to regional reviewers thing.
Yes, and he could of done all of that in 5 mins, not such a long drawn out video, which he covers content he has already ranted about in the past. This is my issue, there is getting a point across, then there is just endless side rambling and side tracking.
Unfortunately, that's not how the business model works. For some things, that's fine. But most of the clicks you'll get from a review are going to be on the product's launch day. If your not first, your last. That's pretty much how things work.
Ya, i always remember that rush of reviews coming out as soon as NDA's were lifted, was a race to be first, even if your review was, well, crappy or missed things..then you see the follow up reviews days or weeks later
There were times where we had less than seven days to try and fully test the product and write the review for it. You don't get a lot of sleep and still barely manage to get things done. With new hardware there is a learning curve to it. Not only that but if you have problems, you have to deal with the manufacturer's PR people and engineers to get solutions. They'll release BIOS updates to the reviewers sometimes late in this process while you are doing your testing or are nearly done with it. Drivers, etc. are also sometimes rough and get updated as you go too.Ya, i always remember that rush of reviews coming out as soon as NDA's were lifted, was a race to be first, even if your review was, well, crappy or missed things..then you see the follow up reviews days or weeks later
Hahahahahaha that shit was awesome and hilarious!
They are the only major channel covering the industry from this angle. I would rather have one big channel doing that than them being just another review channel in a sea of others. They are the closest to the video media of what HardOCP was in written form. I don't have to point out the hole that was left in advocating for users' concerns once HardOCP shut down. I don't understand why we wouldn't encourage GN to continue, instead of bashing them for not being more of the same.
The issue here isn't doing what they are doing.
Well he more than makes up for those lack of clicks by throwing out a 25 minute long videos on a subject that could have been handled in 5 minutes.