In all seriousness, this is a massive letdown for Anandtech since Anand left, about a million smartphone and tablet articles that nobody cares about, news about whatever Intel decide they need coverage for, and yet nothing but a preview for a major PC hardware release.
Anandtech starting to go the way of DT? I hope not. Don't need an individual 13 page review of each and every derivative phone or KB. Maybe save them for a shootout. That will allow time for the deep dive articles we want.
Why not? you can filter these reviews easily. Its better to have the content than have nothing at all. Still, DailyTech went to crap when it went political and started to post completely unrelevant stuff to tech.
This site feels very much like DT at the moment, it may not be intentional but most of the 'articles' now simply seem like advertising and watered down critique.
Yeah, I can filter them but it seems like they spend soo much time on these phones and KB reviews that we never see anything on graphics cards or other tech within a reasonable amount of time. I dont care about an (insert chinese knockoff) phone. All those phones could be reviewed under one review. KB, PS, memory too. Same with SSD's. In depth articles should be for unique tech, new architectures, or if a phone is doing something very different then OK sure that. After the initial release of said tech, then later reviews only need to cover the new items. No need to rehash again and again. Content is great but content we want is the point Im making. A lot of us here feel this way. Its been said multiple times to the point when a driver is announced, were asking well what about the review for the product the driver is for that still aint out XX weeks/months later. In depth is great but timeliness counts too. Im OK waiting a couple weeks but come on, this is getting absurd. Ever since Purch bought them, it seems to be sliding down hill. I hope it changes. If it doesnt, it will be sad when anandtech goes away. I go to this site almost Daily.
I actually like the SSD reviews here, because this site was revolutionary when it comes to SSD reviews. Before Anandtech started testing longevity, performance when full, trim, and random writes, SSD reviews kinda sucked.
I agree with you on everything else though. I'd much rather have video card and processor reviews in a relevant time period than phone reviews. There are plenty of good sites reviewing phones, and I only upgrade my phone when it breaks anyway. Same thing with peripherals like mice and keyboards. I usually don't even click on those reviews.
It really seems like this went from a full time professional journalism site to a hobby, and it's disappointing.
Fair enough. You make a good point. When new controllers and new type of memory sure. ODM rebadge drives that perform the same though, I don't see the need. I want emphasis on the TECH and less on the product.
What for? Since nVidia had released GTX 1060, no one cares for AMD's RX series now, save a few nVidia never die hards. And soon the GTX 1050 will have its own deep dive, with polaris long forgotten.
Some of us are interested in the tech and the product, not just the latter, and not just fanboyism. The 1060 is clearly the better card in most respects. You wouldnt have that card at that price if AMD didnt put pressure on the market with the 480. The 480 has its merits too. DX12 is the Gorilla in the room when it comes to the newer cards. Market share shows that. AMD has finally gained ground. Not much, but a noticeable bit. Sure some will never buy one or the other but its not Anandtech jobs to advertise for one or the other. They have been traditionally fair in their assessments and unbiased in their recommendations, and I believe they will continue to. Whether we will see the article in a reasonable amount of time...thats another story.
I just bought a 480 8GB for two reasons. It was cheap (same as the 1060 3GB) and whilst I had the 1060 3GB in my cart, I discovered they cut down the die and said nothing and pretended the RAM was the only difference.
I didn't like that. I think it is misleading, the market has defined itself on model differences for die changes and didn't want to encourage that behaviour with my wallet.
I'm not upgrading anytime soon as I have 290X 8GB cards in Crossfire(was a great deal @ $495 total) so I haven't delved too deeply into the 480 vs 1060 bc it doesn't offer more performance for me. I have been considering one for a DT rig for the gf though. So 480 4GB vs 8GB is only memory, but as for the 1060 3GB vs 6GB is memory AND a cut down die? What part was cut? Gonna look in Bench to see what the diff in performance is. Even if negligible, aside from the memory limitation I wonder how much it will be effected once more games are DX12 centric vs DX11
I had crossfire 1GB 260X's, so it's a big jump for me, especially on the memory front. I have a 4K TV and even on the lowest settings got like 10 frames on Fallout 4, at 1080p75 and 1440p60 I ran it high and it did 60 min no issues.
The latter two are still coming. I don't have a date I'm comfortable giving you, but they're in the works.=)
As for the former, I may write a bit more in the future. But the previous Polaris and RX 480 articles already contain most of what I know about the architecture.
Thanks for the reply, appreciate that you're still working on them.
However, can I just point out the ads are extremely annoying these days? They're obvious clickbait titles with a random celebrity photo attached, and theyre loading really slow as well.
Sadly the clickbait articles are the reason why I don't look at this site in chrome for Android anymore. Firefox with ublock origins for Android. I also used to whitelist the site with my adblocker of choice, but I hate the taboola style ads now.
Ignore the haters regarding the Conte t of the site, though. I still come here for review advice for buying tech. Hopefully, the next pixel phone review will come out quickly after the 4th...
Anandtech was bought out by the same company that owns Tomshardware. I hardly ever come here anymore because there aren't many reviews.. I believe this was intention to redirect traffic to Toms.
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RaichuPls - Thursday, September 22, 2016 - link
RX480 deep dive when? RX 460/470 reviews?BrokenCrayons - Thursday, September 22, 2016 - link
Don't hold your breath. Anandtech's GPU reviews are slower than the GTX 970's last 512MB of video RAM.JoeyJoJo123 - Thursday, September 22, 2016 - link
Absolutely sick burn! +1'd, liked, and subscribed for more pwnage.powerarmour - Thursday, September 22, 2016 - link
Valve will be getting HL3 ready soon...In all seriousness, this is a massive letdown for Anandtech since Anand left, about a million smartphone and tablet articles that nobody cares about, news about whatever Intel decide they need coverage for, and yet nothing but a preview for a major PC hardware release.
Manch - Thursday, September 22, 2016 - link
Anandtech starting to go the way of DT? I hope not. Don't need an individual 13 page review of each and every derivative phone or KB. Maybe save them for a shootout. That will allow time for the deep dive articles we want.tamalero - Thursday, September 22, 2016 - link
Why not? you can filter these reviews easily. Its better to have the content than have nothing at all.Still, DailyTech went to crap when it went political and started to post completely unrelevant stuff to tech.
powerarmour - Thursday, September 22, 2016 - link
This site feels very much like DT at the moment, it may not be intentional but most of the 'articles' now simply seem like advertising and watered down critique.Manch - Thursday, September 22, 2016 - link
Yeah, I can filter them but it seems like they spend soo much time on these phones and KB reviews that we never see anything on graphics cards or other tech within a reasonable amount of time. I dont care about an (insert chinese knockoff) phone. All those phones could be reviewed under one review. KB, PS, memory too. Same with SSD's. In depth articles should be for unique tech, new architectures, or if a phone is doing something very different then OK sure that. After the initial release of said tech, then later reviews only need to cover the new items. No need to rehash again and again. Content is great but content we want is the point Im making. A lot of us here feel this way. Its been said multiple times to the point when a driver is announced, were asking well what about the review for the product the driver is for that still aint out XX weeks/months later. In depth is great but timeliness counts too. Im OK waiting a couple weeks but come on, this is getting absurd. Ever since Purch bought them, it seems to be sliding down hill. I hope it changes. If it doesnt, it will be sad when anandtech goes away. I go to this site almost Daily.barleyguy - Thursday, September 22, 2016 - link
I actually like the SSD reviews here, because this site was revolutionary when it comes to SSD reviews. Before Anandtech started testing longevity, performance when full, trim, and random writes, SSD reviews kinda sucked.I agree with you on everything else though. I'd much rather have video card and processor reviews in a relevant time period than phone reviews. There are plenty of good sites reviewing phones, and I only upgrade my phone when it breaks anyway. Same thing with peripherals like mice and keyboards. I usually don't even click on those reviews.
It really seems like this went from a full time professional journalism site to a hobby, and it's disappointing.
Manch - Friday, September 23, 2016 - link
Fair enough. You make a good point. When new controllers and new type of memory sure. ODM rebadge drives that perform the same though, I don't see the need. I want emphasis on the TECH and less on the product.uefi - Thursday, September 22, 2016 - link
What for? Since nVidia had released GTX 1060, no one cares for AMD's RX series now, save a few nVidia never die hards. And soon the GTX 1050 will have its own deep dive, with polaris long forgotten.powerarmour - Thursday, September 22, 2016 - link
Why should any site apply bias in this way?, it's just not journalism.Manch - Thursday, September 22, 2016 - link
Some of us are interested in the tech and the product, not just the latter, and not just fanboyism. The 1060 is clearly the better card in most respects. You wouldnt have that card at that price if AMD didnt put pressure on the market with the 480. The 480 has its merits too. DX12 is the Gorilla in the room when it comes to the newer cards. Market share shows that. AMD has finally gained ground. Not much, but a noticeable bit. Sure some will never buy one or the other but its not Anandtech jobs to advertise for one or the other. They have been traditionally fair in their assessments and unbiased in their recommendations, and I believe they will continue to. Whether we will see the article in a reasonable amount of time...thats another story.Danvelopment - Saturday, September 24, 2016 - link
I just bought a 480 8GB for two reasons. It was cheap (same as the 1060 3GB) and whilst I had the 1060 3GB in my cart, I discovered they cut down the die and said nothing and pretended the RAM was the only difference.I didn't like that. I think it is misleading, the market has defined itself on model differences for die changes and didn't want to encourage that behaviour with my wallet.
Manch - Monday, September 26, 2016 - link
I'm not upgrading anytime soon as I have 290X 8GB cards in Crossfire(was a great deal @ $495 total) so I haven't delved too deeply into the 480 vs 1060 bc it doesn't offer more performance for me. I have been considering one for a DT rig for the gf though. So 480 4GB vs 8GB is only memory, but as for the 1060 3GB vs 6GB is memory AND a cut down die? What part was cut? Gonna look in Bench to see what the diff in performance is. Even if negligible, aside from the memory limitation I wonder how much it will be effected once more games are DX12 centric vs DX11Danvelopment - Monday, September 26, 2016 - link
They've cut one of the multiprocessors from the die.http://www.anandtech.com/show/10580/nvidia-release...
I had crossfire 1GB 260X's, so it's a big jump for me, especially on the memory front. I have a 4K TV and even on the lowest settings got like 10 frames on Fallout 4, at 1080p75 and 1440p60 I ran it high and it did 60 min no issues.
Ryan Smith - Thursday, September 22, 2016 - link
The latter two are still coming. I don't have a date I'm comfortable giving you, but they're in the works.=)As for the former, I may write a bit more in the future. But the previous Polaris and RX 480 articles already contain most of what I know about the architecture.
RaichuPls - Friday, September 23, 2016 - link
Thanks for the reply, appreciate that you're still working on them.However, can I just point out the ads are extremely annoying these days? They're obvious clickbait titles with a random celebrity photo attached, and theyre loading really slow as well.
Ryan Smith - Friday, September 23, 2016 - link
"However, can I just point out the ads are extremely annoying these days?"Absolutely. I don't control the ads, but all reports are passed on to the appropriate persons.
erple2 - Friday, September 23, 2016 - link
Sadly the clickbait articles are the reason why I don't look at this site in chrome for Android anymore. Firefox with ublock origins for Android. I also used to whitelist the site with my adblocker of choice, but I hate the taboola style ads now.Ignore the haters regarding the Conte t of the site, though. I still come here for review advice for buying tech. Hopefully, the next pixel phone review will come out quickly after the 4th...
jkhoward - Friday, September 23, 2016 - link
Anandtech was bought out by the same company that owns Tomshardware. I hardly ever come here anymore because there aren't many reviews.. I believe this was intention to redirect traffic to Toms.kn00tcn - Friday, September 23, 2016 - link
wtf, how does that make any sense? if it's the same owner, they make money at all timespurposely making anand worse means anand readers will stop coming, not move to toms... ridiculous
there already is strong quality competition from pcper & techreport