Caporegime
This is even more stupid than that.
Look...
The 7900XTX, the true successor to the 6900XT at near 50% faster remained at the same price, $999.99
The by name successor the 7900XT, at 30% faster, was $900, even for as much as we all agree its actually the 7800XT it was still name for name cheaper.
The 7600, 30% faster than its name sake replacement while also 20% cheaper.
There is nothing in any of that ^^^ to suggest the name sake 7800XT is going to be the same price for similar performance.
The leak from Powercolor showed the specs of the RX7800XT and there have been some other leaks. Unless AMD is trying some stealth jebait nonsense,then we know we are getting an RX7800XT 16GB and an RX7700XT 12GB. The issue is calling it an RX7800XT hints at a high price,unless AMD decides to price it at £500.
The fact they are upselling a 60CU part as an RX6800XT replacement which has more CUs is ridiculous. We all see how RDNA3 "IPC" and average clockspeeds are not enough to compensate.
So unless this has some major fixes in performance,ie,it clocks well past 3GHZ and has big "IPC" fixes then we all can gather its going to be a lemon. But again Navi 32 isn't a Navi31 replacement at all. Its a RX6700XT replacement.
An RX6800XT is nearly 45% faster than an RX6700XT:
So is the RTX4070 against the RTX3060TI - that is around the same level of improvement over an RTX3060TI. So the generational uplift for both is there,but instead we are being charged £100s more.
Now think what happens with the next generation?
It's all very odd behaviour, it looks like either incompetence or collusion. Neither or which are good. There could have course be something we aren't aware of driving these decisions...the unknown unknown
Its greed and short termism because of the obsession with the short term share price. I like to be proven wrong with Navi 32,but I have very low expectations now. If AMD wants to copy Nvidia,then one has to ask - why should anyone bother waiting for their releases? An RX7800XT with similar performance to an RTX4070,at the same price is not really inspiring especially since the RTX4070 is poor value.
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