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AMD RDNA3 unveiling event

COD has always favoured AMD, the fact that a 6800xt matches/beats a 3090ti shows this well so no surprise 7900xt(x) is doing well here :cry: Wonder if it a console port thing or/and game engine simply preferring amd.
 
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You seem to really be pushing future driver updates will bring major improvements do you have inside information or something? , not sure I'll be buying just on that maybe
 
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You seem to really be pushing future driver updates will bring major improvements, not sure I'll be buying just on that maybe

Just the norm for AMD driver updates as can be seen by how 6800/6900 performs today.

It is no guarantee of course but speaking from experience there is a reason why there is the saying "AMD's are like a fine wine" and as this is a brand new architecture I would certainly hope to see further performance boost in coming months.
 
MLID has a video up and in it he's had contact from a amd employee, " amd are working on drivers over the hoilday peroid" initial reports did not meet what the cards should be doing, drivers may be responisble for the all over the place performance. he also states amd have burned a lot of good will with this launch.

More crap from this guy. I doubt crunch will solve the issue. If AMD knew performance wasn't where it should be they would have delayed the launch. Whatever is wrong will likely take months to fix if ever. I think the rumor of a retape seems accurate which is when they will get the chiplet design functional.

MLID has zero credibility with this launch. He is backpedalling now stating his AMD contacts were not accurate. If they were reliable contacts they would have known the performance months ago.
 
You seem to really be pushing future driver updates will bring major improvements do you have inside information or something? , not sure I'll be buying just on that maybe

I'm fully expecting driver updates to give a decent boost, amd are known for this (especially new arch.), my 290x got a lot of fine wine and iirc didn't a 5700xt improve quite a bit? That and given amds show where they showed the gpus doing better than what reviewers are says something isn't quite right, that or they truly did mislead everyone.....

The only thing is lets hope the fixes/improvements come within a couple of months and not a year+ later.

Just the norm for AMD driver updates as can be seen by how 6800/6900 performs today.

It is no guarantee of course but speaking from experience there is a reason why there is the saying "AMD's are like a fine wine" and as this is a brand new architecture I would certainly hope to see further performance boost in coming months.

RDNA 2 performed well on day 1 tbf and hasn't seen that much of an improvement when compared to previous gens from amd, obviously a bit out of date this now but haven't seen anything to suggest that rdna 2 has improved any further:


That and nvidia had some very fine wine with their dx 12 update on ada launch, which has significantly closed the gap in some titles like vahalla.
 
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Just the norm for AMD driver updates as can be seen by how 6800/6900 performs today.

It is no guarantee of course but speaking from experience there is a reason why there is the saying "AMD's are like a fine wine" and as this is a brand new architecture I would certainly hope to see further performance boost in coming months.
Hopefully so because the current performance just doesn't mesh with the specs or AMD's (usually) somewhat realistic official performance stats.

I for one, do not see a lot of value in the "fine wine" argument. By the time performance gets up to par in my experience, the card is normally at least halfway through its lifecycle, if not near end. This was the case with Rx580, 295x2, 5870 (going back some), and acutely with R VII to name a few.
 
Yeah, I find it hard to believe that AMD techs just thought it would be better than it was. They stated up to 70% better than 6950 at 4K, I assumed 50%, but we get 35% - 40% at best.

Performance and the idle/multi display consumption issues may be fixed in drivers. But that is a gamble I would not be prepared to take at £1050. That does not suddenly make the 7900 XT a bad GPU, or the 4080 and 4090 worth their asking prices.
 
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I think the references about driver improvements are referring to previous launches where things like fan speeds and fan idling were not functioning properly.

We have seen it on every major launch, Nvidia included.

Of course, the review sits have to report things like high-power draw with the 7900 when playing videos, as it is accurate. But, its not going to be a hardware problem.

The reference 7900XTX is 56% faster in Warhammer 3 at 4k against a Nitro+ 6950XT @ICDP
 
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I think the references about driver improvements are referring to previous launches where things like fan speeds and fan idling were not functioning properly.

We have seen it on every major launch, Nvidia included.

Of course, the review sits have to report things like high-power draw with the 7900 when playing videos, as it is accurate. But, its not going to be a hardware problem.

The reference 7900XTX is 56% faster in Warhammer 3 at 4k against a Nitro+ 6950XT @ICDP

Apologies I should have said on average. It is possible to find outliers that meet AMDs claims.
 
More crap from this guy. I doubt crunch will solve the issue. If AMD knew performance wasn't where it should be they would have delayed the launch. Whatever is wrong will likely take months to fix if ever. I think the rumor of a retape seems accurate which is when they will get the chiplet design functional.

MLID has zero credibility with this launch. He is backpedalling now stating his AMD contacts were not accurate. If they were reliable contacts they would have known the performance months ago.
The only thing going for MLID is his jaw line. He will do well in the adult industry and doesn’t need to keep on making up stuff to get clicks either. Just need to stick his chin between some legs
 
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Well that was bloody annoying, I got one in my basket and tried to complete the order through Paypal and it basically bomb and errored out or went to a oops page :(
 
AMD created the hype. Their slides showed up to 1.5x performance gains over the 6950XT. Then they were specifically asked whether that "upto" meant maximum fps by Digital Foundry to which they said it was meant to account for CPU bottlenecks.

That led to people extrapolating benchmarks which showed it competing with 4090. AMD have no one to blame but themselves. Had they claimed 1.35x the performance for $800 the card would have been much bigger received.


Yeah because there was aboloutely zero hype before hand from the usual "leakers" spinning their bs and people getting carried away with their expectations for the first chiplet based gpu....right?

And I think you'll find the slides showed up to 1.7x performance boost key words being "up to". But as usual people ignore the "up to" and think that's 1.7x across the board. The way these internal benchmarks are done it's very possible they found some random area in cyberpunk (the only game that they claimed 1.7x), seen those performance numbers and used them in their performance graph slide. That's how a lot of these numbers are attained, trial and error in different areas on different maps in the game to see if there's any parts of the game where performance is on the up.

Its no different from a car manufacturer claiming some stupidly high MPG figure in their specific testing environment whereas in the real world you rarely get close to it.
 
The sell out surprises me a bit but I can see why.

Regardless of all the negative crap some are posting, the 7900 XTX is a damn fine GPU (as is the 4080). The problem is not the tech, or the performance, it's the perceived value for money. The 7900 XTX does have better price/perf than the 4080 in the majority of games apart from RT. So the fact they can be had £150 cheaper than a 4080 is clearly helping people over that "how much!" hump.
 
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