That was my plan, wait till the X3D CPU's came out and make the decision of upgrading then or not, around June/July period, things should have also stabilised/matured a bit by then too.
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I want a 7900XTX but will only move when the prices stabilise, $999.00 is not £1200 recommended retail as i can see them being at launch in the uk with AIB models even higher. if it means i have to wait then i will, like the 4090 cards in stock no exactly flying off the shelf this time round.
I will move to a DDR5 based platform when I can get 128 or 256GB of RAM at a reasonable price.
That's a lot of RAM
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From what I remember people saying, the issue with dual GPUs was syncing up the work between the dies. With AMD decoupling front end clocks from the shader, I wonder if this is them preparing to move it to its own die.
I'm sure this is a stage towards that. They seem to be pretty good at incremental improvements now, probably learned their lesson trying to go all in on new architectures. I'm also wondering it they will add in chiplets to accelerate specific workloads to take the load off the GPU.
Yeah, that was always the issue with multi GPU. But when you are as close as two die's on one package, it's not as bad. But the interconnect still needs to be good enought with one Die being the master die etc.
Makes me wonder if we will see some AMD butter donut interconnect using an active interposer.
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Can I live without RT for a couple of years and punish nvidia for their pricing hmm. I might not upgrade yet anyway until the right 32" oled monitor is out but at the moment I am wondering about AMD sanity vs nvidia insanity.
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You won't have to, it just may be at 60fps with FSR enabled which in a single player game as all you really need?
Its all about getting the software to see the GPU as one.
If people remember the first Ryzen HEDT chips had be to run in multi-CPU mode, which had to be switched off to get the best gaming performance.
With some more engineering by the next generation (Zen 2) Windows didn't care anymore and a 3990X with 4 chiplets was just a CPU, it didn't run in multi-CPU mode and the gaming performance was exactly the same as a single CCD chip like the 3700X.
As has already been said, AMD take it a step at a time, i don't know if RDNA3 is something a kin to Zen 1.5 or full Zen 2, but the compute version of RDNA (CDNA) is full Zen 2, if RDNA 3 isn't that RDNA 4 probably will be.
If people remember the first Ryzen HEDT chips had be to run in multi-CPU mode, which had to be switched off to get the best gaming performance.
With some more engineering by the next generation (Zen 2) Windows didn't care anymore and a 3990X with 4 chiplets was just a CPU, it didn't run in multi-CPU mode and the gaming performance was exactly the same as a single CCD chip like the 3700X.
As has already been said, AMD take it a step at a time, i don't know if RDNA3 is something a kin to Zen 1.5 or full Zen 2, but the compute version of RDNA (CDNA) is full Zen 2, if RDNA 3 isn't that RDNA 4 probably will be.
He had a long break, but he's back now. And he seems to be providing much more analysis of information already out there with various predictions instead of basing it all on leaks. It's more of an interesting theory crafting than real info, so far.
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This i think is one of the reasons AMD paid $40 Billion for the worlds leading maker of FPGA's, RDNA 3 actually has Xilinx IP in its media engine, its used to clean up the image quality in recording and streaming.
A bit like Image AI enhancement you see here. Pretty interesting stuff in its self and i can't wait for Tim from HUB to scrutinise it.
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I think they will fly off the shelves this time round. Leaked prices of the 4080 put it close to the 4090 in price.
If anticipated performance is as expected for the 7900 cards then it's going to be significantly faster than a 4080 and considerably cheaper AMD has the potential to win a lot of new customers this time around.
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Has anyone else noticed that while there is great anticipation for the 7900 xt and xtx, a lot of people say "it will drive NVIDIA prices down" rather than saying "I can't wait to buy one". In other words, people want it be competition for NVIDIA but they don't actually want to buy one themselves.
It doesn't matter how cheap it is if we don't buy it.
It doesn't matter how cheap it is if we don't buy it.
do they? I think an all AMD rig is a nice way to sidestep the moral issues currently around Nvidia and Intel.
its not just about frames-per-second, corporate responsibility is a growing concern.
Under Lisa Su, I can't see AMD's corporate image being dented in the short to medium term, she seems to be a genuinely nice person that wants to do the right things.
its not just about frames-per-second, corporate responsibility is a growing concern.
Under Lisa Su, I can't see AMD's corporate image being dented in the short to medium term, she seems to be a genuinely nice person that wants to do the right things.
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This is bound to be the best honeypot if ever there was one!
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Hmm I donno I've said I'm interested one one and a few others have too, a lot of the people talking about prices being driven down have 4090s already.
I think these will absolutely fly off the shelves and sell out faster than Nvidia. More so now I've seen the leaked prices of the 4080.
I think for people for cards older than the 3000 series the AMD offering looks to be extremely attractive.
But I will wait for reviews and final confirmation on prices!
For £600 less it's a no brainer
Incremental is the safe sane bet, but to go along with that they will have to shorten their release cycles too. Last time we had Navi21, then along break for Navi 22/23 and then a very long break for Navi24. And Navi 24 did seem like a pipe cleaner.
Some of us have been saying this for years: certain people will only buy Nvidia anyhow but they complained a lot when AMD wasn't competing high: turns out they just to want AMD to allow them to buy Nvidia cheaper!
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They've been using RT as an excuse for the last few years now that doesn't stand up (never did IMO) given the insane price premium they're struggling to justify going NV. I don't see what's wrong with just saying "I like Nvidia, I'm always just going to buy Nvidia" but then let's not have tears about pricing and then this shifting of blame as if NV's insane gouging for the last 3 gens is somehow AMD's fault for not being competitive..(which is total nonsense anyway).
They want it both ways, they want to always buy NV but they want AMD to make it cheaper, and when NV cards keep rising exponentially, they don't want to blame their beloved Jenson, it's all AMD's fault. Now all that mental gymnastics has finally become impossible to sustain.