I was arguing the opposite - projected clocks in the face of competition was dialled back as final silicon approached.
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AMD Navi 23 ‘NVIDIA Killer’ GPU Rumored to Support Hardware Ray Tracing, Coming Next Year
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Haswell and Devil's Canyon "easily" doing 5GHz is one that jumps out. Fairly certain Ivy Bridge was rumoured to be clocked faster than it ended up being (the power efficiency improvements rumoured to offer a big ceiling uplift). Wasn't Kaby Lake supposed to have a bigger clock bump over Skylake than it actually got?
All of these had their clocks "magically" changed "overnight", either through technical limitations (Kaby Kake), overeager marketing and hype train (Haswell/Devil's Canyon) or complacency in the face of zero competition (Ivy Bridge, Kaby Lake).
Yet it's a complete lie that AMD intended 5GHz Zen 2 parts? Is it not more likely a case that they intended to do so in the face of 10nm Intel competition, but hit technical limitations and then ultimately decided not to clock to **** off it when Intel's projected competition just never materialised? No no, AMD and Adored must be trolling and lying, that's the only explanation
No, the evidence that his leaks/speculation has been correct
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It doesn't matter, it's speculation from just one source. You shouldn't consider him the only source to ask such a question.
For example. Cortex was one of few who told us about RTX 6+ months (or there about) before release. No one even heard of that. But would I count him right on what he says about RNDA 2 series? No, I would only count him towards other sources out there.
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There are plenty of people who might have say a relationship with an AIB through work, etc. who might pickup odd bits of information now and again but don't always have the full picture or information that was correct subsequently changes but they aren't in the loop, etc. etc.
And no evidence that his leaks weren't correct either. Just because a 5GHz 16 core CPU isn't on the market doesn't mean it never existed (Computex private press briefing would say otherwise) or was never intended. Occam's razor my ass.
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its possible what he said about the PS5 could be true
just look at the 360's Xenos GPU, it had unified shaders at the end 2005 but we did'nt see a AMD GPU with it for 18 months and 1year before the 8800GTX
but he seems to come up so a lot of questionable stuff about RDNA2//big navi when in general they as be so much BS rumours over the past couple of years I have to take anything he says with a big pitch of salt
just look at the 360's Xenos GPU, it had unified shaders at the end 2005 but we did'nt see a AMD GPU with it for 18 months and 1year before the 8800GTX
but he seems to come up so a lot of questionable stuff about RDNA2//big navi when in general they as be so much BS rumours over the past couple of years I have to take anything he says with a big pitch of salt
You should be doing that for all rumours surely.
Take every leak and rumour with a bucket of salt every time, that's just par for the course. However, I'm not sure what "questionable" RDNA 2 stuff is coming up with the leaks. What's so questionable about what's said?
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Not sure if you're being serious.....
Perfectly serious, so enlighten me. What's been said about RDNA 2 that's questionable? I want to know if I've missed something.
Not the dreaded HBM. Thought we'd seen the last of that on gaming cards. HBM2 to boot, that's £150+ on the price of the cards.
@Poneros, get that spreadsheet updated asap
And if the cards are already pushing over £1,000 then what's another £150? If Nvidia can get away with charging £1,200+ for the 2080 Ti, there is no way in hell AMD aren't going to the same with the top-end RDNA 2 cards, and at that point slap HBM on there. AMD way even need to put HBM on there to keep total board power down, 16GB GDDR6 is going to be quite hungry.
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Can't answer the question. So pivots to hmb rumor.
Don't forget, AMD are now a premium brand, they are not a charity, so what's another £800 more? Might as well slap it on and charge £2000. People will be throwing their money at them!
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FFS, at this rate Intel will be the budget GPU brand!
Have they even released a desktop gaming GPU yet? At the rate they are going I don't think it will ever happen
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Yeah, they'll need a miracle to make any kind of impact really.Have they even released a desktop gaming GPU yet? At the rate they are going I don't think it will ever happen
And if Big Navi beats the 3080 Ti then those muppets who dropped over a grand on Nvidia may well do the same for AMD.Don't forget, AMD are now a premium brand, they are not a charity, so what's another £800 more? Might as well slap it on and charge £2000. People will be throwing their money at them!
You jest, but you know it's true
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