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AMD RDNA3 unveiling event

Considering people here were smashing 1,899 down for a 3090ti 12 (ish) months ago, 999inc for a 7900XTX reference is what progress looks like.
Anything looks like progress when compared to probably the worse price performance GPU in any generation ever, compared to a £650 3080 or £600 6800XT the 7900XT offers no better performance per cost infact its probably a regression.
 
This card is DOA already. For someone spending £1000 on a card with no real RT perf and sub-par upscaling, why would anyone choose the 7900XTX over 4080 or even the 4090 for that matter.

- inferior RT
- inferior upscaling
- inferior driver
- inferior tech (other than gaming graphics)
- next to useless for render perf in comparison to Nvidia
- next to useless for AI in comparison to Nvidia

7900XTX finds itself in a strange position where it’s ONLY advantage is pricing against its competition. It’s technologically an inferior product by almost every metric.

So if it is not DOA already I don’t know what is.

AMD fan boys are going to be having a good time spinning this one around the corner.

All that eh? May be the 4080 should be $1500 then if its all that.... right?

I mean it would be "worth it" yeah?
 
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we might see some price battle going on shame its starting so high up lol
i dont think its gonna happen.. nvidia is too deep into feature differentiation now
amd would have to do something nasty, but why would they when global demand is contracting, these gpu's are supposed to be price inelastic, atleast during a 1yr time window from launch
 
For anyone not in for fighting for either side like some obscure pointless willy battle.

- Performance is actually quite good
- Beats / matches 4080 for the most part
- Occasionally beats 4090
- Loses in ray tracing tests (if you actually care)
- More power hungry than Nvidia 4080 (probably driver issues here also)
- Points to some potential driver issues with reviews (Linus said they had delays getting drivers - so probably not the best drivers they could shift)

Overall seems decent, although pricing is going to make it a hard sell in UK when we see them list at god knows what tomorrow. Think I'd be going for one, if the prices are right, if they're not my 1070 is getting another year of love.
 
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For anyone not in for fighting for either side like some obscure pointless willy battle.

- Performance is actually quite good
- Beats / matches 4080 for the most part
- Occasionally beats 4090
- Loses in ray tracing tests (if you actually care)
- Points to some potential driver issues with reviews (Linus said they had delays getting drivers - so probably not the best drivers they could shift)

Overall seems decent, although pricing is going to make it a hard sell in UK when we see them list at god knows what tomorrow. Think I'd be going for one, if the prices are right, if they're not my 1070 is getting another year of love.

It should be a bit cheaper, i agree.

And some of the people in here who think talking up Nvidia GPU's will do that you're deluded, you will just end up with a $1500 RTX 5080. Never learn...
 
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For anyone not in for fighting for either side like some obscure pointless willy battle.

- Performance is actually quite good
- Beats / matches 4080 for the most part
- Occasionally beats 4090
- Loses in ray tracing tests (if you actually care)
- Points to some potential driver issues with reviews (Linus said they had delays getting drivers - so probably not the best drivers they could shift)

Overall seems decent, although pricing is going to make it a hard sell in UK when we see them list at god knows what tomorrow. Think I'd be going for one, if the prices are right, if they're not my 1070 is getting another year of love.
Gibbo already gave pricing for MBA version (£899 and £1049 - pretty much MSRP). Also, over 1k of them in stock confirmed.
 
I remember watching the product launch thing a month or so ago. It had prices at $999 and it pitched performance figures around them of a 4080. Now the release is here. The product is around $999 and the performance is around a 4080...

Im confused by everyone acting somehow disappointed.
 
I remember watching the product launch thing a month or so ago. It had prices at $999 and it pitched performance figures around them of a 4080. Now the release is here. The product is around $999 and the performance is around a 4080...

Im confused by everyone acting somehow disappointed.
Probably based on AMDs claims that it's c50% quicker than last gen which does not seem to be the case in a lot of titles.
 
Probably based on AMDs claims that it's c50% quicker than last gen which does not seem to be the case in a lot of titles.

Right.

Its really not the case at all, HUB benchmarked a lot of the titles AMD put on those slides and in reality its half of AMD's claims, well short....
 
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How does AMD plan on responding to the 4080 Ti? Its definitely coming. Although I think they will make it less powerful than what they thought they would need, looking at the performance.
 
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Same question to you as @harmattan do you think AMD just deliberately tried to pull the wool over our eyes? Genuine question.

No, I think they done what companies always do and show best case.

I think people were overly trusting due to AMD being reasonable accurate in the past. If we look back to the previous Ryzen announcements for example, AND were open saying hey we're good at production but we're 10% slower than intel in gaming.

The problem with the marketing for the 7900xtx was they cherry picked games (normally they would put games they are bad in, they at least done this in past releases showing the worst case) they stood up and said 1.5-1.7x performance, so people expected overall a 50% increase over 6950xt, as Hardware Unboxed showed the reality was an average of 15-20%

This is in no way to say the 7900xtx is a bad card, it's not in any stretch, it's a very very very very good card... the problem is the 4080 is basically identical performance but with overwhelming superiority in other features which while many including myself would happily dismiss those features such as RT, the reality is even i can't dismiss them with a straight face when to get them it's only £70 more.

If i compare what I expected to what we got. Prior to these reviews I would have though Nvidia would need to cut the 4080 by £200 just to be competative (due to the higher expected Rasta on 7900xtx vs RT it would be a trade one of the other). Now I think if Nvidia cut the price by just £100 they would demolish all of AMDs sales.

I need to upgrade my 1080ti. I wont be clamering to buy a 7900xtx tomorrow anymore, i'll wait until January i think to see the AIBs and what happens. But truthly, i'm now leaning way more to a 6900xt
 
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