Caporegime
All 6900 XTs are using the Navi21 XTX or XTXH variant, so that’s exactly what he’s referring to. There is no 6900 XT ‘XT’ variant.
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OcUK RX7900 series review thread
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Caporegime
Thanks, the way you’ve explained it might be easier to understand.
What Frank says on twitter and what's in the AMD 1.5x slide are two different things imho.
Angry man on twitter is calling AMD out on the 1.5x slide and saying its FUD.
It does not appear to be FUD but Frank's twitter history is not helping and its likely that the small print on the performance slides is where the gotcha might be.
One possible explanation is that AMD might have taken the 7900XT power efficiency for the 1.5x slide and the 7900XTX for the performance slides and then screwed up the test rig description. It would not surprise me if the AMD lab found that the fastest configuration for the 7900XTX was using an Intel DDR5 rig with SMT off (or something like that) and used that rig for the benchmarks, that would explain the RAM speed discrepancy. Nobody at AMD wants to admit this publicly and here we are.
That's why we need OCUK forum people to submit findings, as it validates this kinda thing in the real world (or not).
Angry man on twitter is calling AMD out on the 1.5x slide and saying its FUD.
It does not appear to be FUD but Frank's twitter history is not helping and its likely that the small print on the performance slides is where the gotcha might be.
One possible explanation is that AMD might have taken the 7900XT power efficiency for the 1.5x slide and the 7900XTX for the performance slides and then screwed up the test rig description. It would not surprise me if the AMD lab found that the fastest configuration for the 7900XTX was using an Intel DDR5 rig with SMT off (or something like that) and used that rig for the benchmarks, that would explain the RAM speed discrepancy. Nobody at AMD wants to admit this publicly and here we are.
That's why we need OCUK forum people to submit findings, as it validates this kinda thing in the real world (or not).
AMD's flagship RX 7900 XTX GPUs discovered to integrate A0 silicon revision affected by serious hardware issues
The problematic A0 silicon revision was apparently the reason why AMD delayed the launch of the flagship RDNA 3 GPUs by almost a year. Despite this, AMD still launched the RX 7900 cards with this stepping that is exhibiting high GPU clock variability, power draw issues and disabled shader...
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If true, not really good news, potentially faulty gpu's at the silicon level doing the rounds. Though i find it very hard to believe that rdna 3 was delayed by a year, that would have meant it would have been released a little over a year after rdna2...which would be very unusual since we've been in 2 year cycles for years now.
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Doubt it, in the past amd used intel cpus's and still had it listed in the "notes" at the end of these video presentations. Why would now be any different? They're gonna pair the fastest cpu to get the best performance out of their gpu they can.
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RDNA 2 was released only 16months after RDNA1 so who knows maybe AMD did plan to release earlier.AMD's flagship RX 7900 XTX GPUs discovered to integrate A0 silicon revision affected by serious hardware issues
The problematic A0 silicon revision was apparently the reason why AMD delayed the launch of the flagship RDNA 3 GPUs by almost a year. Despite this, AMD still launched the RX 7900 cards with this stepping that is exhibiting high GPU clock variability, power draw issues and disabled shader...
If true, not really good news, potentially faulty gpu's at the silicon level doing the rounds. Though i find it very hard to believe that rdna 3 was delayed by a year, that would have meant it would have been released a little over a year after rdna2...which would be very unusual since we've been in 2 year cycles for years now.
AMD's flagship RX 7900 XTX GPUs discovered to integrate A0 silicon revision affected by serious hardware issues
The problematic A0 silicon revision was apparently the reason why AMD delayed the launch of the flagship RDNA 3 GPUs by almost a year. Despite this, AMD still launched the RX 7900 cards with this stepping that is exhibiting high GPU clock variability, power draw issues and disabled shader...
If true, not really good news, potentially faulty gpu's at the silicon level doing the rounds. Though i find it very hard to believe that rdna 3 was delayed by a year, that would have meant it would have been released a little over a year after rdna2...which would be very unusual since we've been in 2 year cycles for years now.
Until we see more data, rather than a random dude on twitter posting stuff, I am gonna label this as FUD.
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USA only.
Soldato
The real MRSP kicks in and the discount ends. Nvidia and AMD are both equally guilty of this rotten practice.
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Didn't they also increase the European prices too previously as they converted the new USD price to GBP and took a tiny bit off?
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And reference cards already gone if the Youtuber, Not An Apple Fan, is correct, he says he tried to order a reference card from oc uk but got an email saying it was oversold and he'd have to swap to an aftermarket card because reference cards will not be restocked
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It's not gone yet, just due for a resupply but after Jan/Feb it's likely to never return and others will have to deal with AIB prices before it drops below msrp in a years time
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Tbf the MBA cards are not that attractive. Only 2 8 pins and high temps.
Untrue.
Our email stated you can wait as we are securing additional stock or you can change your order to another alternative card or request a refund.
We also have more MBA XT on the way and more XTX to cover the over sold back orders.
As the saying used to go don't believe everything you read in the papers, guess now its the same for social media and youtube.
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I watched the stream of him buying the card and he was chuffed and relieved when the payment went through. It was his community that actually paid for it with the promise of doing his best to obtain one for testing.Untrue.
Our email stated you can wait as we are securing additional stock or you can change your order to another alternative card or request a refund.
We also have more MBA XT on the way and more XTX to cover the over sold back orders.
As the saying used to go don't believe everything you read in the papers, guess now its the same for social media and youtube.
He was truthful about what the email said but just didn't think more cards would come, wasn't willing to wait and on a budget. He ended up getting a refund and buying an XT which shortly after displayed as out of stock.. he did not get a confirmation..
Could have been a great bit of free PR.
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Caporegime
AMD should just hold up their hands and say "yeah clearly its not where we wanted it to be, we shall work to fix it"
Robert Hallock, the trusty face of AMD left, now i'm wondering why, because this is pathetic, RDNA3 is clearly and very obviously not performing right, it is sometimes slower than its predecessor, ok.... that's bad.
This running around trying to put out fires does not inspire confidence.
i mean if you were going to say that you would say it straight away not after you have dug the hole deep enough to get stuck in
Caporegime
Sure, its too late now. we need to hear from someone other than Frank, as i said, bring Robert back. Pay him whatever he wants.
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