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AMD knows the reviews aren't going to be favorable, so what incentive do they have to provide cards? Sample sites that are more likely to not throw the cards under the bus and benefit from the lost page views for the sites that have already proffered negative opinions of the Fury architecture.
I'm not going to go into detail about the kind of processing that takes place with these images, but I'll just say it's most certainly NOT dead pixels.
Here's the kind of uniformity issues we deal with when using astronomical CCDs (this is the WFC3/IR detector on Hubble, for reference)...
These will be all about the software. I worked with some of Intel's CE platforms about four years ago, and while the hardware was good enough, the software stuck on top of it ruined the whole experience.