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Pepito describes about his time working at AMD designing Vega.

00:00 - 00:05 So big boss Raja comes to me and says Pepito rush out Vega we are out of time

00:05 - 00:07 our stock is plunging off a cliff what's taking so long

00:07 - 00:10 So I told him, Vega isn't ready as clocks weren't there

00:11 - 00:16 HMB2 production has not matured yet and the driver team is asleep on the job but then I told him worst of all

00:17 - 00:21 It only manages to match the GTX 1070

00:21 - 00:24 With 4GB of vram

00:29 - 00:31 Just 4GB of vram

00:31 - 00:34 We are making a high end card in 2017 with 4GB of vram

00:38 - 00:40 That only matches a 1070

00:41 - 00:47 Putting 8GB of HBM2 skyrockets the cost of the Vega GPU

00:47 - 00:50 Then he said what do you think we can sell this for

00:50 - 00:56 I didn't know so I just shook my head

00:58 - 00:59 After 2 years of working on it

00:59 - 01:01 We only made it 20% faster than the Fury X

01:04 - 01:06 Who is going to buy it?

01:06 - 01:08 Not even AMD fanboys

01:13 - 01:14 4GB of vram

01:14 - 01:16 It gets me every time

01:16 - 01:20 I just can't stop laughing

01:21 - 01:27 It's not even a new architecture just rebranded GCN

01:35 - 01:36 Don't even bother overclocking it

01:36 - 01:39 it won't budge on the vram

01:41 - 01:44 Ok let's talk seriously now, we made sure that it will sell

01:44 - 01:47 Right at the end we found the solution to 4GBs

01:47 - 01:49 You will like this

01:50 - 01:53 High Bandwidth Cache & Controller

01:54 - 01:56 We just tell AMD peasants

01:56 - 01:58 To use their imaginary NVMEs & 4000mhz ram

01:58 - 02:02 And if they need more vram? So long!

02:05 - 02:07 4 gigs

02:10 - 02:11 It's too funny

02:11 - 02:13 I can't...

02:15 - 02:17 I can't even sleep at night

02:17 - 02:20 after working on Vega it was so bad

02:21 - 02:28 I knew it was a mistake to work at AMD, I should have worked for Nvidia instead

02:29 - 02:30 Because of the pay?

02:30 - 02:32 Cuz of the pay!

02:36 - 02:39 I'm already looking for another job now

02:40 - 02:42 I'm so screwed

02:50 - 02:55 If Radeon Technologies Group survives this I would be shocked

02:56 - 02:58 Do you know how the card will launch?

02:58 - 03:04 With the usual loud and hot shitty reference cooler and a water cooled version as this is just Fiji on 14nm

03:04 - 03:09 The card is loud, hot and draws a lot of power, sometimes even over 300 watts when overclocked

03:09 - 03:11 Aye I'm so teary

03:16 - 03:20 It will cost $400

03:23 - 03:26 When you can find 1070s for $340