AMD RDNA3 unveiling event

[LtMatt]

apparently, cyberpunk has/had a bug where the settings wouldn't actually change, I experienced it when I upgraded to a 4090, even launching the game again they weren't applied I had to use geforce experience crap which must overwrite the games settings file

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so that makes comparison's even more fun


wouldn't that be the opposite if DLSS was on it's not actual 4k but upscaled

Ugh yeah Lol. Had to think about that for a moment. Basically MW2 has a resolution slider so if you run 1080p native but with a 200% resolution slider, it renders the
The resolution at 4K.

 

[Joxeon]

Yeah I see that, but considering (if I was needing/wanting a GPU right now) then a 6900XT is quite reasonable at £650 if you cant wait a few months. Pretty much on par with a soon to be 7800XT.

I'd agree, I don't think we'll see anything that beats it in raster by a worthwhile amount at £650 from either AMD or nvidia.

 

[gpuerrilla]

I'd agree, I don't think we'll see anything that beats it in raster by a worthwhile amount at £650 from either AMD or nvidia.

Supers/Ti's and hefty price cuts during the next year will be the only reason to upgrade unfortunately. Current pricing is insane.

 

[Calin Banc]

It's a decoy product as in it should have been a 7800XT for $700, now the 7800XT is going to be watered down to a 7700XT level card and be around the same performance as last gens top cards.

AMD are doing exactly the same thing as nvidia by putting out lower tier cards with higher end names, it's just that AMDs pricing isn't quite as daft.

What's even funnier is that by using the "chiplet" design they're also saving money which means they win on two sides: lower costs of production + higher prices for the GPUs. GG, AMD! Kindly puts to rest all the hopes of those that thought a "Ryzen design" would bring better prices for end users. Nope, just bigger profits for AMD.

 

[ICDP]

Yeah I see that, but considering (if I was needing/wanting a GPU right now) then a 6900XT is quite reasonable at £650 if you cant wait a few months. Pretty much on par with a soon to be 7800XT.

The biggest bonus would be the lower power draw for the same performance.

 

[Tetras]

The biggest bonus would be the lower power draw for the same performance.

AMD for the last few years, same price, same performance, lower power

 

[gpuerrilla]

Ideal for a mobile platform I guess.

 

[ICDP]

AMD for the last few years, same price, same performance, lower power

Lol

 

[harmattan]

Apparently were looking at up to 83% improvement according to AMD in RT performance over 6950XT. Risking a premature statement, that would put RDNA3 just above Ampere in RT. Exactly what I was hoping.

On a related note, I've already got a line on one or two of these back in the US, but any word on whether preorder will be possible through OCUK?

 

[Grim5]

Apparently were looking at up to 83% improvement according to AMD in RT performance over 6950XT. Risking a premature statement, that would put RDNA3 just above Ampere in RT. Exactly what I was hoping.

On a related note, I've already got a line on one or two of these back in the US, but any word on whether preorder will be possible through OCUK?

AMD with the weird charts and numbers again.

They claim "up to 82% faster" but then it's very clear in their chart that it's 100% faster in dying light 2, going from 12fps to 24fps

 

[gpuerrilla]

Dont mind a bit of sandbagging! Better than overhyping and under-delivering.

 

[TNA]

Apparently were looking at up to 83% improvement according to AMD in RT performance over 6950XT. Risking a premature statement, that would put RDNA3 just above Ampere in RT. Exactly what I was hoping.

On a related note, I've already got a line on one or two of these back in the US, but any word on whether preorder will be possible through OCUK?

That would be very good if they achieve that. As long as they offer as good or better than Ampere RT performance then it should be fine. But if they struggle to hit Ampere RT performance it will be a bit of a fail imo.

 

[ICDP]

As a 3080 owner I would have needed at least similar RT performance and around 40% raster improvement to warrant an upgrade. The 7900XT does deliver that but is overpriced IMHO. AMD have priced it so close to the XTX, that it becomes a paradox card and is clearly what the 7800XT should have been. The 7900 XT needs a price cut to be a viable GPU IMHO.

6900 XT launched at $999
6800 XT launched at $650

 

[Besty]

re: 4090 vs 7900XTX, it looks like the 7900XTX is about 12% slower than a 4090.

According to the leaked slide this morning, the 7900XTX AIB cards will have a higher boost clock (no surprises there).

Anyone want to bet that the 7900XTX Toxic is 12% higher clock than the reference just for the LOLs ?

 

[Grim5]

As a 3080 owner I would have needed at least similar RT performance and around 40% raster improvement to warrant an upgrade. The 7900XT does deliver that but is overpriced IMHO. AMD have priced it so close to the XTX, that it becomes a paradox card and is clearly what the 7800XT should have been. The 7900 XT needs a price cut to be a viable GPU IMHO.

6900 XT launched at $999
6800 XT launched at $650

I belive both AMD and Nvidia has launched their top GPU at prices we expected so no surprises there. But what is surprising is that both have elected to essentially kill off/canabalize the 80 series of GPU by pricing it in a way that it makes no sense to buy one, thereby funneling buyers to the top GPU model.

We've already had one reviewer who has a 4080 speak out and say the card doesn't make sense, and the same will happen with the 7900xt.

 

[Sargatanas2511]

The leaks say the 7800XT will have 60 CUs on a navi 32 die which is 12 less than the 6800XT and 24 less than the 7900XT.

From these new slides the 84 cu 7900XT looks around 30% faster than the 6950XT which had 80cu's

If the 7800XT does indeed have 60 CUs the same as the 6800 non XT then we would expect the same +25-30% uplift which would put it around 10-15% faster than the 6800XT which is exactly where the 4070ti is going to sit.

If the leaks are wrong which is unlikely and AMD use the navi31 die we would likely see 72CUs and the card would then be around 25-30% faster than the 6800XT.

This is still all conjecture though. It might be right, it might be wrong.

For all we know it clocks like a monster and will sit at 3Ghz with better RT performance than a 6950XT by a decent margin, or it might be low clocked and really boring as a product.

Speculation doesn't mean we KNOW anything.

 

[Grim5]

The 7800XT will be around 5% faster than a 6900XT and the 4070ti if it's a 60 CU card.

The 7900XT looks like it's the same speed as a 4080.

Again adding more fuel to killing the 80 series GPUs. Based on your numbers the 7800xt is just a 7700xt renamed to 7800xt so it can be sold for a higher price and it's likely the price/perf ratio of the 7900xt/7900xtx is superior, pushing buyers to buy 90 series and not 80 series


I suppose Nvidia and AMD can do what they want, but it's a shock to buyers to see both companies flip the GPU market on its head - everyone is so used to entry level and mid range cards having good value and now it's gone, the value is all at the top of the stack and it's gets worse as you go down

 

[gpuerrilla]

Again adding more fuel to killing the 80 series GPUs. Based on your numbers the 7800xt is just a 7700xt renamed to 7800xt so it can be sold for a higher price and it's likely the price/perf ratio of the 7900xt/7900xtx is superior, pushing buyers to buy 90 series and not 80 series

Whilst true let's not forget the other company doing same and charging double what the last gen card was. This is for a 30% improvement in performance for 85% in cost, i.e. terrible. We wont mention the unlaunched edition shall we?!

 

[timorous]

The 7800XT will be around 5% faster than a 6900XT and the 4070ti if it's a 60 CU card.

The 7900XT looks like it's the same speed as a 4080.

It depends entirely on clockspeeds for the 7800XT.

Clock those 60 CUs @ 2.8Ghz game clock and you are matching 7900XT shader performance and making up a good chunk of the ROP shortfall.

I would not be surprised if the 7800XT was close to 7900XT performance and say 6950XT + 20%.

7800XT will have a much lower BOM than the 7900XT and the 7900XT is using cut dies. If AMD is getting great yields on N31 AMD won't want to sell them as XT's to meet demand so what do they do. They price the XT too close to the XTX to make people think, well for 20% extra performance I might as well spend 10% more money and then they bring in a $650ish 7800XT so people who can't quite stretch to the XTX can go might as well save 25% for 90% of the performance and all of a sudden the XT is not that desirable so AMD can just use parts that have failed the binning process, parts where an MCD bond failed or defective dies to make them because it will be super low volume and it will exist to push people up to the higher margin XTX or down to the higher margin 7800XT.

EDIT. The offshoot of that though is that some 7900XTs will overclock like monsters if AMD don't lock it down in drivers / bios. A 7900XT with a 7900XTX binned die that is only there because 1 of the MCDs didn't hook up properly would OC like crazy if power limits and clock sliders allow for it. This means the 7900XT stock might not be a great buy but for those who don't mind tinkering it could be the card to get.

 

[HRL]

Whilst true let's not forget the other company doing same and charging double what the last gen card was. This is for a 30% improvement in performance for 85% in cost, i.e. terrible. We wont mention the unlaunched edition shall we?!

How could we all possibly forget, it’s pointed out multiple times a day.

AMD/Nvidia are both taking consumers for a ride, but if they’ve got a product that we want, we don’t have much choice other than to buy or not buy.

Has anyone in the UK confirmed the pricing yet for the new AMD cards?