So I'm sitting here with my 5870 churning away, I've gotten rid of the Catalyst Control Panel entirely, updated the drivers, noticed some bugs getting fixed, and I'm just thinking, "you know, this card is pretty damn nice." It may not have had much wow-factor for me, and it may lack some features, but the performance is damn good, the quality is damn good, and as I start to adjust to the new equipment, I'm starting to realize how happy it's making me. AMD's got a good thing going here.
Despite a
loss of market share, AMD is finally
in the black again, thanks to the completion of their GlobalFoundries spinoff. They've just launched their 10xxT series, finally competitive with the more enthusiast range Core i-series Intel CPUs. Their newly-launched Phenom II X4 and X3 chips for mobile platforms has just been announced in a multitude of
Dell and
HP notebooks, for the first time bringing them out of the long-held Turion slump of the last several years. All this while they're steadily
gaining market share in the world of graphics, with the only top-to-bottom DX11 lineup available and the only mobile DX11 solutions in existence.
