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AMD RDNA 4 thread

The 6000 series was pretty good, the 7000 is poor though, just being 10% faster or 10% cheaper wasn’t good enough when Nvidia were already overpriced by 50%+ this gen.
what are you comparing thats 10% faster for 10% cheaper? my 6800mba was 600 when i brough it, my 7800xt non mba was 530, the 7800xt is not 10% faster than a 6800.. the 7800xt competes with the 6800xt which isnt 10% faster than a 6800..
 
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what are you comparing thats 10% faster for 10% cheaper? my 6800mba was 600 when i brough it, my 7800xt non mba was 530, the 7800xt is not 10% faster than a 6800.. the 7800xt competes with the 6800xt which isnt 10% faster than a 6800..

The problem is Nvidia and AMD are pushing up chips one to two tiers. Also this is not helped by the fact 2021 RTX3000/RX6000 series releases were overpriced.

For example the RX5700XT was $400 in 2019. The RX6700XT was $480 in 2021. But the RTX3060TI was released at $400 like the RX5700XT. The RX7800XT is $500. So in under three years we have seen that class of dGPU go up by 25% in price.

The issue is the RX7800XT uses a similar class of chip to the RX6700XT(Navi 32 instead of Navi 22). It is an RX6700XT replacement. The RTX4070/RTX4070TI use chips which are more akin to an RTX3060/RTX3060TI class dGPU.

This is why tier for tier,the RTX4060,RTX4060TI,RTX4070,RX7700XT and RX7800XT look small improvements over their previous generation namesakes. They were never meant to compete with those higher end cards.

They should have been the RTX4050,RTX4060,RTX4060TI,RX7700 and RX7700XT.
 
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The problem is Nvidia and AMD are pushing up chips one to two tiers. Also this is not helped by the fact 2021 RTX3000/RX6000 series releases were overpriced.

For example the RX5700XT was $400 in 2019. The RX6700XT was $480 in 2021. But the RTX3060TI was released at $400 like the RX5700XT. The RX7800XT is $500. So in under three years we have seen that class of dGPU go up by 25% in price.

The issue is the RX7800XT uses a similar class of chip to the RX6700XT(Navi 32 instead of Navi 22). It is an RX6700XT replacement. The RTX4070/RTX4070TI use chips which are more akin to an RTX3060/RTX3060TI class dGPU.

This is why tier for tier,the RTX4060,RTX4060TI,RTX4070,RX7700XT and RX7800XT look small improvements over their previous generation namesakes. They were never meant to compete with those higher end cards.

They should have been the RTX4050,RTX4060,RTX4060TI,RX7700 and RX7700XT.
i understand that, but at the end of the day both companies will do anything they can to make money, they both have time and time again. so if they can die shrink to make up for the performance loss by going down the stack they will. we cant say they should do this or that since we dont make them, we dont even know likely 60% of whats involved in making a gpu form start to end. we can guess but none of us truly know unless any of us have been involved. if amd can save **** tons of rnd to do this, why wouldnt they, they dont have the same budget as nvidia and nvidia only cares about pure profits. again they both do. and end of the day we dont live in an ideal world.
 
i understand that, but at the end of the day both companies will do anything they can to make money, they both have time and time again. so if they can die shrink to make up for the performance loss by going down the stack they will. we cant say they should do this or that since we dont make them, we dont even know likely 60% of whats involved in making a gpu form start to end. we can guess but none of us truly know unless any of us have been involved. if amd can save **** tons of rnd to do this, why wouldnt they, they dont have the same budget as nvidia and nvidia only cares about pure profits. again they both do. and end of the day we dont live in an ideal world.

I get that but in the end just as they care about their pockets,I only care about mine. Companies can try to charge endless amounts for stuff,but how is that sustainable when huge amounts of consumer spending in Europe and the US are driven by debt? Most people's income is not even going up properly with inflation. Interest rates are going up and the era of cheap debt is coming to the end. In a few years this will affect the corporate side of things as many companies can't keep borrowing cheaply to expand.

ATM,what we are seeing is too much money being printed due to the Pandemic,etc and its working it's way through the system and causing inflationary problems. But the issue is a lot of that money printed didn't end up in the pockets of the general public - the Pandemic has seen a huge amount of taxpayers money being pushed upwards. To put in context the wealthy have increased their wealth by trillions of dollars more during more than 99% of the human race during the Pandemic:

Near $1 trillion Euros have been spent on energy support schemes in Europe:

This is why taxation is getting worse and worse for us plebs. We are paying for all this printed and borrowed money.

It seems since the Pandemic,the sheer greed of many industries,and any slight pretence of them being "nice" to customers(or even their workers) has finally gone away.

TLDR: I would rather be without than pay extortionate prices for these products.
 
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I get that but in the end just as they care about their pockets,I only care about mine. Companies can try to charge endless amounts of stuff,but how is that sustainable when huge amounts of consumer spending in Europe and the US are driven by debt? Most people's income is not even going up properly with inflation. Interest rates are going up and the era of cheap debt is coming to the end. In a few years this will affect the corporate side of things as many companies can't keep borrowing cheaply to expand.

ATM,what we are seeing is too much money being printed due to the Pandemic,etc and its working it's way through the system and causing inflationary problems. But the issue is a lot of that money printed didn't end up in the pockets of the general public - the Pandemic has seen a huge amount of taxpayers money being pushed upwards. To put in context the wealthy have increased their wealth by trillions of dollars more during more than 99% of the human race during the Pandemic:

Near $1 trillion Euros have been spent on energy support schemes in Europe:

This is why taxation is getting worse and worse for us plebs. We are paying for all this printed and borrowed money.

It seems since the Pandemic,the sheer greed of many industries,and any slight pretence of them being "nice" to customers(or even their workers) has finally gone away.

TLDR: I would rather be without than pay extortionate prices for these products.
i dont agree with what they are doing at all by the way. just trying to show that these companies will rob us blind in any way they can :D
 
I get that but in the end just as they care about their pockets,I only care about mine. Companies can try to charge endless amounts of stuff,but how is that sustainable when huge amounts of consumer spending in Europe and the US are driven by debt? Most people's income is not even going up properly with inflation. Interest rates are going up and the era of cheap debt is coming to the end. In a few years this will affect the corporate side of things as many companies can't keep borrowing cheaply to expand.

ATM,what we are seeing is too much money being printed due to the Pandemic,etc and its working it's way through the system and causing inflationary problems. But the issue is most of that money printed didn't end up in the pockets of the general public - the Pandemic has seen a huge amount of taxpayers money being pushed upwards. To put in context the wealthy have increased their wealth by trillions of dollars more during more than 99% of the human race during the Pandemic:

Near $1 trillion Euros have been spent on energy support schemes in Europe:

It seems since the Pandemic,the sheer greed of many industries,and any pretence of them being "nice" to customers has gone away.

TLDR: I would rather be without than pay extortionate prices for these products.
The whole stock market system is a Ponzi scheme. Eventually it will need a reset. There is more and more consolidation and less competition. Profits can't go on endlessly. They've tried to prop it up with more and more consumers but that's not sustainable, especially with dropping birth rates, hence you need to bring in new people to increase the base of the pyramid.

Look what happened post robber barons (practices included exerting control over natural resources, influencing high levels of government, paying subsistence wages, squashing competition by acquiring their competitors to create monopolies and raise prices, and schemes to sell stock at inflated prices to unsuspecting investors), we had a lot of wars.
It's not new and I'm not sure how they change things to be lest boom and bust, printing more money isn't the way though. Increased productivity per capita would help as we need higher GDP per capita but it doesn't seem to be going that way.
 
The problem is Nvidia and AMD are pushing up chips one to two tiers. Also this is not helped by the fact 2021 RTX3000/RX6000 series releases were overpriced.

For example the RX5700XT was $400 in 2019. The RX6700XT was $480 in 2021. But the RTX3060TI was released at $400 like the RX5700XT. The RX7800XT is $500. So in under three years we have seen that class of dGPU go up by 25% in price.

The issue is the RX7800XT uses a similar class of chip to the RX6700XT(Navi 32 instead of Navi 22). It is an RX6700XT replacement. The RTX4070/RTX4070TI use chips which are more akin to an RTX3060/RTX3060TI class dGPU.

This is why tier for tier,the RTX4060,RTX4060TI,RTX4070,RX7700XT and RX7800XT look small improvements over their previous generation namesakes. They were never meant to compete with those higher end cards.

They should have been the RTX4050,RTX4060,RTX4060TI,RX7700 and RX7700XT.


RX 5700XT: 2560 shaders
RX 6700XT: 2560 shaders

RX 7700XT: 3456 shaders

RX 6800: 3840 shaders
RX 7800XT: 3840 shaders

IMO the RX 7800XT price is not unreasonable, its a little faster than the RTX 4070 and RX 6800XT before it while being £100 and £150 cheaper than their MSRP respectively, its better than both, its certainly a better GPU than the 4070.
 
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The 4070Ti is an £800 GPU, its overclocks by 5% real terms performance, doesn't matter which 7800XT you get they all overclock to about the same performance level, those with a higher base clock OC less than those with a lower base clock, because the way you overclock them is to reduce the voltage, very similar actually to Ryzen CPU's

So this $500 16GB GPU is 95% the performance of the $800 12GB 4070Ti, if you set them both up right, and why wouldn't you, its free performance.

The 7800XT is underclocked to keep it away from the 7900XT

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