Reports are circulating AMD has specifically forbade any
hardware partners from showcasing any Radeon 300 series graphics cards during
Computex Taipei next week.
If the rumours are true, AMD is instead waiting until E3
2015 as previously suspected. AMD is running a dedicated PC gaming conference
along with a host of partners, and it would indeed be the ultimate stage to
show off its latest and greatest hardware to a gaming audience.
The PC Gaming Show is set to take place on Tuesday, June 16
at 5PM PT / 8PM ET / 1AM BST. The likes of Blizzard, Paradox, Bohemia
Interactive and Obsidian will all be there in some fashion, and it could be the
perfect place to showcase a gamer-focused GPU range.
Obviously the big downside to this is that it’s going to be
a couple more weeks until we can see the Radeon 300 graphics cards,
disappointingly. In the meantime, it’s looking as if Nvidia is planning to
launch its GeForce GTX 980 Ti at the very same Computex event AMD is skipping,
giving team green a short-term advantage.
In the meantime, AMD has rented out advertising on New
York’s Times Square’s largest display, teasing the upcoming graphics card. The
25,000 foot digital signage touts AMD as ‘Processing the Revolution’, and looks
to be showing an image of the upcoming Fiji-based Radeon GPU.
Is E3 the right place for AMD to be showing off new graphics
hardware? AMD is certainly heaping a lot of pressure on itself with these
cards, will they live up to the hype? Let us know what you think below!
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