RDNA 3 rumours Q3/4 2022

[gpuerrilla]

Ok serious moment, Who is really excited about tomorrows AMD gpus and thinking about buying one if they turn out to be good and a decent price ?

I wont be buying any cards this year. I am interested to see what AMD bring, even better if they can perform more than people expect. I wont be entertaining any overinflated prices of either brands and happy to wait it out till prices sink.

 

[HRL]

I’ve been waiting and waiting for something solid from AMD but managed to bag a 4090FE in the last drop so I’m out.

If they knock it out of the park I’d be prepared to sell the 4090FE and make the switch, but it just doesn’t seem likely at present. However, hopefully we shall see tomorrow.

 

[kieran_read]

Ok serious moment,


Who is really excited about tomorrows AMD gpus and thinking about buying one if they turn out to be good and a decent price ?

We won't start a poll just like this with a thumbs up if yes and sad face if not interested at all and laughing face if not sure.


I'm a thumbs up so far from seeing the so called leaked specs.

I'm really excited, mostly because Nvidia are not even competing in the undr £1000 bracket.
I will pre-order if the price is right I don't need AMD to be on par with Nvidia, even if it's 20% slower if it's priced right then ill buy it. My budget is about £1000 so i'm hoping AMD knocks it out of the park and pulls a Ryzen Gen 1 on Nvidia.

I'm also hoping OCUK offers us humble forum users an early pre-order XD

 

[Purgatory]

I wont be buying any cards this year. I am interested to see what AMD bring, even better if they can perform more than people expect. I wont be entertaining any overinflated prices of either brands and happy to wait it out till prices sink.

Same here if prices are silly I'm out and sticking with the 3090 in the HTPC and @Nexus18 has to eat his other half of the sandwich then.

Only if they perform well and a price that falls into a good value item, I actually miss not having a DGPU from AMD, only AMD gpu I have these days in use is on the laptop I use all time and the other cards I have are classic ATI cards that are not going anywhere.


Want to know a secret ? The card I had the most fun gaming on ever even to this day was a ATI Radeon HD 4870 (sapphire toxic it was) and then I updated it to a HD 5870 and was great for like a 8 months then AMD made some big changes to the drivers and broke all my flight sims and since then never went back to AMD DGPU but purchased laptops with AMD gpus still. Then after the HD 5870 mess I jumped onto a GTX 580 and have not been back to AMD/ATI since, earlier this year was seriously thinking to get the 6950X reference model from OCUK at £800 as it looked ace and performed really well for the price, but you know why I didn't get it ? Because I thought they would sell out quick and let others that need a gpu get them.

 

[Joxeon]

My 10GB card has had no problems! *buys 4090*

Most the people I've seen on here buying 4090s already had a 3090 so what does that say about the card.

 

[Purgatory]

Same here if prices are silly I'm out and sticking with the 3090 in the HTPC and @Nexus18 has to eat his other half of the sandwich then.

Only if they perform well and a price that falls into a good value item, I actually miss not having a DGPU from AMD, only AMD gpu I have these days in use is on the laptop I use all time and the other cards I have a classic ATI cards that are not going anywhere.


Want to know a secret ? The card I had the most fun gaming on ever even to this day was a ATI Radeon HD 4870 (sapphire toxic it was) and then I updated it to a HD 5870 and was great for like a 8 months then AMD made some big changes to the drivers and broke all my flight sims and since then never went back to AMD DGPU but purchased laptops with AMD gpus still. Then after the HD 5870 mess I jumped onto a GTX 580 and have not been back to AMD/ATI since, earlier this year was seriously thinking to get the 6950X reference model from OCUK at £800 as it looked ace and performed really well for the price, but you know why I didn't get it ? Because I thought they would sell out quick and let others that need a gpu get them.

Pictures of the system back then, yes yes I take pictures of all my builds.. don't laugh she was one of my favs. Also check where the power connectors are on the gpu.












Sapphire toxic HD 4870 in the pic. Case badge in first pic, I had them badges on all my computers at work and still do.

The days when you couldn't hide the cables behind the motherboard area and I was proud of my cabling then , also front lower intake fan filter is made from my then girlfriends stockings to stop dust, that case was old by then and used on two other builds but loved it as it was large for cases back then and also notice where the psu is ? All psus use to be at top not bottom like now are they were used to exhaust and most cases didn't have a rear exhaust as the psu was it. I have even older systems but will not scare you all with 286,386,486 systems and even cyrix .

 

[kieran_read]

Most the people I've seen on here buying 4090s already had a 3090 so what does that say about the card.

I don't think it says anything about the card.

It's more that these people will buy the new gen each time regardless of how much it costs, some people just have that much money to spend.

 

[Combat Fighter]

I’ve been waiting and waiting for something solid from AMD but managed to bag a 4090FE in the last drop so I’m out.

If they knock it out of the park I’d be prepared to sell the 4090FE and make the switch, but it just doesn’t seem likely at present. However, hopefully we shall see tomorrow.

Don’t forget to buy a fire extinguisher.

 

[Nexus18]

I have a feeling AMD have something really good this time... maybe my new HTPC gpu if it is. Then I will sell one of the 3090s to @Nexus18 to save him going out and begging for Nvidia gpu money like poor Steve is having to do to get a 4090...

If you're lucky and AMD smash performance to price, I'll throw in some chewing gum from under the desk with just the half eaten ham sandwich for your 3090 tomorrow

Ok serious moment,


Who is really excited about tomorrows AMD gpus and thinking about buying one if they turn out to be good and a decent price ?

We won't start a poll just like this with a thumbs up if yes and sad face if not interested at all and laughing face if not sure.


I'm a thumbs up so far from seeing the so called leaked specs.

My bar isn't high for amd to impress me, as mentioned:

- RT perf. better than ampere and by that I mean > 15%, doesn't have to match the 4090
- game announcements for FSR 2.1.1/2.1.2
- < £850 price tag

Couldn't care less about raster now as every game I play now has some form of RT and it's obvious what way game development is going, anyone who says otherwise is just in denial

That's not too much to ask for imo, well except for maybe the price as amd have proven for a while now they are perfectly ok with charging in the same bracket as nvidias competing cards despite not offering the same "overall" package as said competing gpus so if they really do have a killer gpu as is being made out here, I won't be surprised in the slightest if they charge in the same bracket, after all they aren't a charity.

But I'm very wary at the same time given "EVERY" single launch of amds for the past few years now always being a disappointment in some key areas, need I remind us of the "overclockers dream", "poor volta", "4k gaming gpu" statements and then the hilarious 480/580 series of gpus..... My favourite GPU was probably the 4850 and then the 290x, amd need to deliver gpus of that quality and pricing again.

 

[andy_mk3]

Ok serious moment,


Who is really excited about tomorrows AMD gpus and thinking about buying one if they turn out to be good and a decent price ?

We won't start a poll just like this with a thumbs up if yes and sad face if not interested at all and laughing face if not sure.


I'm a thumbs up so far from seeing the so called leaked specs.

If the price/performance is good I will be seriously interested, especially at the rumoured TDP. I would rather buy an AMD card due to Nvidia being a horrible company. I don't believe for one minute that AMD is our best friend as gamers, but they're a far better option in my eyes and I would rather pay them money if they can produce a good card for not too crazy pricing.

 

[Besty]

I am not excited about the AMD Reference cards, I am excited about the AMD Tier 1 AIB cards which will surpass the Nvidia AIB offerings for the first time, in terms of options and quality.

Yes, that's right, for the first time, AMD has a superior AIB vendor line-up this generation, I wonder how that happened?

 

[uscool]

Choo Choo liking the ref design would look nice vertically mounted hope they give details of 7700xt card and 7800xt don't care for the halo stuff

 

[Purgatory]

I'm hoping Lisa Su puts this look on Jensen Huang face tomorrow....






It's time AMD get themselves back fully now into the DGPU market again, they will otherwise never have the chance again like now as even Nvidia customers/fanboys are sick of Nvidia and the silly games they play with their customers. I would stick the Linus Torvalds famous last words to Nvidia, but we all know them and clearly well deserved. Hoping for a good one for AMD and hoping they treat their future customers with more respect with pricing on this new gen, not like 6000 series was really badly priced at msrp, but we all know what happened then to mess that up for AMD too...

 

[Stu999]

She’s a tall girl! Could almost fit a 4090 in there.

 

[nvidiamd]

If you're lucky and AMD smash performance to price, I'll throw in some chewing gum from under the desk with just the half eaten ham sandwich for your 3090 tomorrow



My bar isn't high for amd to impress me, as mentioned:

- RT perf. better than ampere and by that I mean > 15%, doesn't have to match the 4090
- game announcements for FSR 2.1.1/2.1.2
- < £850 price tag

Couldn't care less about raster now as every game I play now has some form of RT and it's obvious what way game development is going, anyone who says otherwise is just in denial

If they release the 7900 cards then it is unrealistic to expect the price to be under £850. And if RT perf is not at least 25% above the 3090 is not worth it.Maybe not in every game but at least in Metro EE we should see at least 25% better than the 3090 for the Radeon cards to be competitive. I expect some Nvidia sponsored titles like CP 2077 will bring patches that will make the gap between 4090 and the new Radeon cards even bigger in RT.
Rasterization i think AMD will have no problem to be faster than Nvidia, they were already close with the big navi on much lower bus. But who cares if you get 300 fps instead of 320?
For me a good announcement will be RT perf > 25% than the 3090 and keep improving FSR. I am not interested in DLSS 3 alternative, i think that is a dead end but FSR still needs improving and larger adoption. A big problem is with the updates, you can't expect the devs to update their games every time you update FSR.
Oh and i hope the 7800xt will be priced under £850 when released.

 

[Nexus18]

If the price/performance is good I will be seriously interested, especially at the rumoured TDP. I would rather buy an AMD card due to Nvidia being a horrible company. I don't believe for one minute that AMD is our best friend as gamers, but they're a far better option in my eyes and I would rather pay them money if they can produce a good card for not too crazy pricing.

Agree on the whole but we really must stop this "amd being a force for good/better, white knights for the pc gaming scene" etc. (I know you said, they aren't our best friends either, this is a general observation post and not aimed at you ) that's just because amd want us to think that, it's their whole motto/PR/image (and largely because they have no choice but to embrace this way given their market share), they have made people think "closed source" tech is "evil", "scummy" when reality is, it's really not "that bad", there are a lot of perfectly valid good reasons to go with closed source position, obviously main factor from a business POV is to lock people into eco system etc. but from a development pov, there are a lot of very good reasons to go down this path, it also can have disadvantages too but it's not the black and white that amd make out.

Another example where somehow amd fans view "fine wine" as a good thing says it all imo

Of course there are many other things where nvidia are defo shady and have poor practices but alas that's the way of any mega company, amd probably have their fare share of dodgy practices too that doesn't get the same attention.

I am not excited about the AMD Reference cards, I am excited about the AMD Tier 1 AIB cards which will surpass the Nvidia AIB offerings for the first time, in terms of options and quality.

Yes, that's right, for the first time, AMD has a superior AIB vendor line-up this generation, I wonder how that happened?

Yup when it comes to amd, aib models will defo be the ones to go for, probably, sapphire or powercolour as they generally have the best coolers. Reminds me, whatever happened to HIS? I had their 4850 model which was fantastic but sadly their design choice went to **** after those cards.

I will say though, if I pick up RDNA 3, I'll miss the FE design as it really oozes a premium feel/look imo and it's a shame amd don't try to do the same, especially in terms of having a similar cooler design where more of the heat gets dumped outside the case as opposed to being dumped in the case.

not like 6000 series was really badly priced at msrp, but we all know what happened then to mess that up for AMD too...

6900xt was/is very good value when compared to the 3090 but the 6800xt wasn't a great price at msrp imo, no dlss competitor and poor RT perf. yet only £50 cheaper than the competitor, £50 is nothing when spending £600+ imo and having said that, "zero" chance of picking one up in uk for MSRP anyway and of course the stock situation Fingers crossed amd announce uk store tomorrow but going by gibbos recent post, very unlikely.

 

[PaulC2K]

Im in the market for whatever seems to be the best offering, based on performance and cost, but not particularly in a hurry because other components will delay the build i wanna start (Lian Li Evo XL & 7800x3D both early 2022)
I've got 4k+ to spend on the system & new w/c loop, and prefer to buy something that'll last 4-6 years, rather than making small steps each generation.

Had Nvidias offering been sensibly priced, i probably would have plucked for it without seeing what AMD have to offer. I had expectations that a 4080 would be what i was looking for before we got the pricing, but it feels a lot like the better value is in the 4090, simply because the 4080 pricing seems obscene.
So if AMD can offer something impressive, bettering what nvidia have, then thats where my money will go.

Things that would sway me besides $/perf:
- G-Sync on 4000 series & Monitor.
- Reference design board for watercooling blocks.
- Something from AMD that benefits running all AMD hardware (something like SmartAccess aka DirectStorage)

I think chances are the 4090 will come out on top, but regardless of who wins this round, i'd love to see AMD absolutely b****slap Nvidia on their 4000 series pricing. 4090 might get a pass as a halo product at £1700, but £1300 for a x080 card is a disgrace.

 

[uscool]

That's what exhaust fans are for

 

[Besty]

HIS? It's website is a bit odd in that it needs Adobe flash for full functionality and appears to be stuck in a 2015 time-warp

 

[Purgatory]

She’s a tall girl! Could almost fit a 4090 in there.

She was a tall case with legs that popped out sideways but not very wide sadly, was a server case I used at work back then and rescued it from ending up in the skip as was one of the first servers I built back then and couldn't let the case get skipped the other bits got put away as spares or destroyed for security reasons.

I got rid of the poor thing in the end because it started to rust.