AMD are back at their shenanigans. When you take one step forwards, 3 steps back...

[mickyflinn]

Oh like Nvidia don't have any problems

 

[kjaerligkatt]

thanks for your worthwhile contribution to the discussion

The trolling gets tiresome, and contributes nothing to the discussion. How do you think or justify that trolling is worthwhile?

 

[Alt0153]

The trolling gets tiresome, and contributes nothing to the discussion. How do you think or justify that trolling is worthwhile?

if you cant handle a bit of light trolling or banter just get off the internet cause there will always be some

 

[kjaerligkatt]

This is very true.

In AMD's own recent charts to explain to GamersNexus why they use MCM for their GPU; they showed some CPU comparisons and whether unintentional or not they confirmed that a 16 core ryzen costs half the price of a monolithic Intel 16 core because it's MCM - and yet AMD charges a significantly higher price for its 16 core than Intel despite costing 50% less to make - this proving that any cost benefit from MCM is for AMD's investors, not for customers

Under Lisa Su, AMD for the last 3 years has been and will continue to price products based on their performance relative to the competition, not how much they cost to make so consumers can forget about any savings in GPU prices from MCM

It's entirely normal for products to be priced based on (perceived) value/benefit rather than cost to produce.

 

[kjaerligkatt]

if you cant handle a bit of light trolling or banter just get off the internet cause there will always be some

Oh, I can handle it, and observe with a slight smirk at what gives some people a 'kick'. It doesn't make it any less tiresome ...

 

[RavenXXX2]

Oh, I can handle it, and observe with a slight smirk at what gives some people a 'kick'. It doesn't make it any less tiresome ...

You have an ignore option.

 

[Alt0153]

Oh, I can handle it, and observe with a slight smirk at what gives some people a 'kick'. It doesn't make it any less tiresome ...

so you get off on people joking around, nice kink. also thanks for dragging it off topic even more with moaning about a few off hand comments

 

[Hotwired]

This is why the gpu section sucks so much.

A moderately reasonable thread on actual issues cant happen without lazy trolling.

thanks for your worthwhile contribution to the discussion

No problem, the amount of trash posting in any gpu thread for getting reactions gets some into a twisted mindset that it's normal behaviour.

 

[ICDP]

there is always some issue, for 3000 series they were unicorn ***** as impossible to buy, 2000 series had rtx but no games with it, tbf i dont remember anything for the 1000 series but i deffo remember the 900 series and its 3.5gb vram 970 i was lumbered with for 6 years

I shouldn't laught really. I bought a Vega 64 with the reference cooler and then spent ages modding it with an AIO cooler held on with some cable ties and added some heatsinks for the VRAM and VRMs etc.

It worked great but I vowed to stay away from AMD reference coolers, until the 6800 series finally fixed that issue.

 

[Alt0153]

No problem, the amount of trash posting in any gpu thread for getting reactions gets some into a twisted mindset that it's normal behaviour.

sorry i cant hear you on that high horse

 

[VincentHanna]

Oh like Nvidia don't have any problems

Their biggest issue is that their top end GPU's cost a fortune, and mugs like me still buy them.

In terms of driver or hardware issues, I haven't had any with my last 3 Nvidia cards - Palit 2080Ti, 3090 Strix and 4090 FE

 

[mickyflinn]

Their biggest issue is that their top end GPU's cost a fortune, and mugs like me still buy them.

In terms of driver or hardware issues, I haven't had any with my last 3 Nvidia cards - Palit 2080Ti, 3090 Strix and 4090 FE

You missed out the new Atx 3.0 connector .

 

[VincentHanna]

People not clicking them in properly isn't really their fault though, is it?

 

[Alt0153]

People not clicking them in properly isn't really their fault though, is it?

tbf when i watched gamers nexus video he states there was no audible click and he had to apply more force than he was comfortable with to make sure it was secure, on the other hand my recent card the adapter slipped right in and made a nice loud click so it was prob bad design that encouraged user error

 

[Klo]

People not clicking them in properly isn't really their fault though, is it?

Bad design is. There is a reason the spec is being revised.

 

[Joxeon]

it was to reduce costs for amd not for you

That's basically it. As a consumer you're faced with all the bugs yet none of the cost benefits.

 

[Troezar]

Bad design is. There is a reason the spec is being revised.

There's an old saying about not spoiling the ship for a ha'p'orth of tar. Still true to this day, people don't change

 

[Hotwired]

sorry i cant hear you on that high horse

Yet you've stopped the banter and are trying to redeem yourself by posting like a normal person again.

 

[uksoldierboy]

I don't really understand where the "shenanigans" are?..

AMD release totally new GPU..
Has some issues that will require some driver work, revisions, time to mature.. (The AMD way for years now)
Offers great performance at not a fantastic price point but certainly no worse than Nvidia (outside of RT)

What's happening to these forums more than half the posts or threads started seem nothing more than excuses to get the post count up, blatant trolling etc.

After visiting a friend that managed to snag a 7900xtx yesterday, it's certainly a very powerful card, and is pretty damn close considering the price difference to the 4090 in his sons system in pure raster numbers.
although i vastly prefer the driver package on team green

Both cards extremely capable, and both overpriced imho.

Myself I'm happy with the 6900XT still, but I'll consider the 7900XTX or 4090TI next year i think.

 

[rare]

I had a feeling this thread would end up going this way…