*** The AMD RDNA 4 Rumour Mill ***

[Troezar]

Reminds me of the current state of politics, they don't seem to realise we can see what they're doing :Insert "Hello McFly!": Gif

 

[Ross Thomson]

Incredible that the AIB’s are announcing their models even though we have barely any information from AMD. The AIB’s are probably and quite rightly furious about the whole thing.

This has to be one of the worst GPU ‘announcements’ I’ve ever seen and I am a bit of an old AMD fan boy. If you are going to announce it, just do it properly.

yes but also no. what actual difference does it make?

 

[rare]

yes but also no. what actual difference does it make?

Kills momentum, hype, makes it look like their don’t even have confidence in their own product.

I just think it’s a mess. It’s very muddled. It’s not a clear way to position a new product range to consumers at all.

 

[K1LaW8tt5]

That makes no sense. It's like they don't know what they are doing if true.

Why does it make no sense?

 

[uscool]

we already knew we weren't getting any.

Well they could have kept the rest for the keynote and only shared preview to the press earlier as some suggested

Reading around it's obviously hasn't done them any good

 

[TNA]

Why does it make no sense?

What you typed.

 

[K1LaW8tt5]

What you typed.

What I typed or how you read it?

 

[Nitefly]

Why announce your new GPUs when you could also… not announce them?

 

[K1LaW8tt5]

Why announce your new GPUs when you could also… not announce them?

They outsourced it to all the YouTubers. They get more clicks and views

 

[uscool]

They outsourced it to all the YouTubers. They get more clicks and views

Outsourced hardly any information lol just read the comments people wanna see performance and pricing details

 

[K1LaW8tt5]

Outsourced hardly any information lol just read the comments people wanna see performance and pricing details

Performance is weak it's the same as the 7900xt and the price is TBD.(In a few hours)

 

[uscool]

Performance is weak it's the same as the 7900xt and the price is TBD.(In a few hours)

7900xt performance isn't bad , what makes or breaks it is the price

 

[GuruJockStrap]

I tuned in to that AMD presentation with absolutely rock bottom expectations and yet somehow, I still came away extremely disappointed. How?!?

 

[Capitano]

I tuned in to that AMD presentation with absolutely rock bottom expectations and yet somehow, I still came away extremely disappointed. How?!?

probably because it took you a couple minutes to finishing reading the name of one of their mobile CPU's!

 

[Raelgun]

I tuned in to that AMD presentation with absolutely rock bottom expectations and yet somehow, I still came away extremely disappointed. How?!?

We had Nvidia unlaunch the 4070ti when it was a 4080 12g but unlaunching a presentation is a new one in this space.

 

[K1LaW8tt5]

7900xt performance isn't bad , what makes or breaks it is the price

True, I meant weak in comparison to other high end cards. It literally can't be set any higher than £500. If it's not ready for 6 months I can see another price drop on the 7900xt and 7800xt and 7900 to clear out.

 

[Grim5]

I wouldn’t take it as that - it almost certainly won’t need triple 8 pins. Maybe it’s more an aesthetic choice. These cards don’t need coolers this big either but the manufacturers have realised in many markets people like to have a big card in their case even if it’s a lower end/mid range model. Also means they get to charge more and argue there is a bigger cooler etc…

Depends on the power design I guess. 8 pins are rated for 150w each and this card is rumored to be 330w - so if the card pulls no power from the pcie socket and pulls all its power from the PSU, then you'd need 3 x 8 pins for 330w to not exceed the rated 150w per cable.

But if the card was to say pull power from the pcie socket and the PSU, then you could get away with up to 75w from the pcie socket and supply the remaining 255w through 2 x 8 pins. Either way, the 3rd 8 pin gives it some overclocking headroom potential

 

[Gerard]

Not sure what you mean?

Said @Gerard

 

[Poneros]

I tuned in to that AMD presentation with absolutely rock bottom expectations and yet somehow, I still came away extremely disappointed. How?!?

#JustAMDThings

Time for Nvidia to reach 95% market share.

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Triple slot and 3x8 pin power for a supposedly mid-range card?!?

So size/cooling-wise it improves nothing from a 7900XT and power-wise it could pulls more power than last-gen high end (even Red Devil RX7900XT is just 2x 8pin)?

Might as well get a 7900xt instead at this rate, at you'd get more VRAM for it to age less poorly...

AIB partners are probably going to overclock the card as high as possible,so the price can be jacked up as high as possible too. Those coolers don't look cheap.