>Oh snap. Not known for mincing words, Nvidia’s outspoken CEO Jensen Huang described AMD’s return to high-end PC gaming graphics as “underwhelming.”
“It’s underwhelming,” Huang said when asked by PCWorld what he thought of AMD’s new Radeon VII,which features 16GB of HBM2 memory, 1TB of bandwidth, 60 graphics cores and is built on a new 7nm process.
Why ‘underwhelming’?
“The performance is lousy and there’s nothing new,” Huang said. “[There’s] no ray tracing, no AI. It’s 7nm with HBM memory that barely keeps up with a 2080. And if we turn on DLSS we’ll crush it. And if we turn on ray tracing we’ll crush it.”
Of course, this is all conjecture, as there’s no way Huang could know how the Radeon VII actually performs since it’s not available yet.
Indeed, Huang went on to boast that the GeForce GTX 2080 is sold by every add-in card vendor while the Radeon VII is an unknown.
“It’s a weird launch, maybe they thought of it this morning,” Huang quipped before laughing halfheartedly at his own dig and mentioning how he likes to riff on the competition sometimes. Still, it’s clear what Huang thinks as he again reiterated: “It’s underwhelming.”
[When asked to comment on Huang’s critique of the card, AMD CEO Lisa Su responded:“What I would say is that we’re very excited about Radeon VII, and I would probably suggest that he hasn’t seen it yet.” ]
“We never competed,” Huang said of upcoming FreeSync support. “(FreeSync) was never proven to work. As you know, we invented the area of adaptive sync. The truth is most of the FreeSync monitors do not work. They do not even work with AMD’s graphics cards.”
“Intel’s graphics team is basically AMD, right?” Huang asked.
What a fucking Chad
