Well people aren't filling out their specs now so....
As for the re-branding decisions... well I'm sure a lot had to do with the "enthusiast" community anyway. I doubt there are many everyday joe smoes willing to purchase a 5870, let alone a 5970 or, going Nvidia, a 470 or 480.
As I said earlier...
My point.... It's all about the enthusiast community
I'm still somewhat confused, because last time I checked, ATI and NVIDIA are pretty much on equal footing. AMD and Intel have a much less fierce competition, because the CPU market is mostly dominated by Intel chips. It would thus seem to be that ATI is a stronger brand name than AMD. I actually think it would help them more if the AMD brand went away, and they started branding CPUs with ATI.
so that means my computer is all amd lol to me it will always be the same cause i know the brands
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From a marketing standpoint it is a long overdue. Pushing one brand name enforces the product of both CPU and Video and after all that is what the public wants. Most people will assume that the combination of the two, now being both AMD, will provide a better product and there by promoting more sales. This simply makes the product more pliable on the market. The next step is to see how the AMD market adjusts prices to be both more marketable and cost effective to the consumer. If you look at the replies here most are about cost for the value and operation. Many builders see the high end lines at just a meager difference as the software that utilizes the high end market is lagging behind anyways.
I find this a very wise choice for AMD and see their stocks jumping in value besides their sales. Those few percentages do add up when you look at market value!
That is a very good point.
Although when it comes to fanboy arguments, you are going to see the name Radeon mentioned a lot more more to delineate between GPU and CPU.
You are also going to see Radeon misspelt quite a lot...
Snapshot of a typical opening fanboy discussion:
"AMD are awesome bang for buck"
-"Nah, their CPU's are te suck. Intel FTW"
"No I, mean the graphics card - you know, the raydon"
-"Oh, yeah. Their CPU's still suck"
"Yep."
---"Nvidia craps all over gaedon
***"AMD does not suck. AMD f0reVah!!!!"
and so on and so forth.
LOL - that smarteyeball humor strikes againYou are also going to see Radeon misspelt quite a lot...
Snapshot of a typical opening fanboy discussion:
"AMD are awesome bang for buck"
-"Nah, their CPU's are te suck. Intel FTW"
"No I, mean the graphics card - you know, the raydon"
-"Oh, yeah. Their CPU's still suck"
"Yep."
---"Nvidia craps all over gaedon
***"AMD does not suck. AMD f0reVah!!!!"
and so on and so forth.
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