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Thanks. You would hope with PSSR being ready for the big time they will have something hardware based ready to go.
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As usual they'll have one or poss two heavily worked on games that show us the best-case scenerio of the new tech, rest of the time it'll be upto devs to implement however well (or poorly). Typical AMD strat.
Maybe. Rumours are still a little bit all over the place. Only thing we can say for sure is that amd have a presentation at the start of CES next week, and they might speak about stuff then
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AMD in such internal disarray they can't even be stable on their card naming! Changing every couple of generations is just beyond silly.
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TBH I think it's less of an annoyance than keeping the exact same name for a card but changing it's specs to be worse.
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Is there an outside chance they’ll release a 9080XT or 9090XT? If the 9070XT does well is suppose?
Is it a Bird? Is it a Plane? No! It's Captain Hyperbole!!
Zero about the card spec, price or name confirmed in any way yet amd are in 'internal disarray' because random poster on ocuk says so!
The leaked TS scores look less likely to be real now - it has been wisely noted that 3DMark wouldn't correctly report the card name this far out from release. Even Videocardz has said to not read anything into them. There are more rumours since then restating the "near 4080" claim.
Which is a fine reason as to why people should ignore leaks, their information (as usual) is all over the place. Back to using the tried and true method of throwing crap at a wall and seeing what sticks.
At this point they're about on par with psychics as to how accurate their info is, and people believe them as well..
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It's fun to speculate though
But yeah, you shouldn't put too much stock into them.
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All I'm saying is that they should choose a nomenclature and bloody well stick with it!
We don't know that they haven't, yet.
Name doesn't matter to most people, price and performance are the points that do. It could be called 8800xtx-pegger edition for all I care. If it's priced right and the performance matches that point, that's what matters.
Not sure there was such thing as a 8800XT in the first place, people just assumed it would be called that due to Seasonic leaking that name, for all we know it was simply a placeholder.
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It does sound like that is what's happening. AMD are releasing the low/mid-range in 2025 and then the high-end, powered by UDNA, will be released in 2026. If the hardware already exists in CDNA and is getting integrated into consumer GPUs at a later date anyway, I don't see the point in AMD spending valuable resources designing a new hardware-based FSR that will only be needed for half a generation.
I really do hope hardware-based FSR can continue from where FSR 3 left off. It would be tragic if the code isn't compatible.
Nothing was formally named in the first place. Staff at AMD use their own internal code names. For example, the codenames for RDNA 3 were Plum Bonito, Wheat Nas, and Hotpink Bonefish.
If that's the case, then Nvidia were also in internal disarray when they did exactly the same thing and skipped the GTX 800 series for their desktop parts.
It may not even be true, but if it is, then I'm guessing it's to align their GPU names with their CPU names. Either that or the performance leap is going to be so big that they wanted to emphasise it by leaping the name as well. It wouldn't be too far-fetched because this lower end of the market has been stagnated for many generations.
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Soldato
Has anybody got a link to a good explainer about RDNA/CDNA/UDNA? Too much acronym soup for the casually interested.
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RDNA = Gaming GPUs like RX 7000 and workstation GPUs like Radeon Pro W7000
CDNA = data center GPUs like Radeon Instinct
AMD don't want to manage those two separate architectures anymore so from 2026, they'll just be focussing on one and it will be called UDNA.
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I've been thinking about this, and RDNA3 uses GDDR6 while CDNA3 uses HBM3. How is this going to work? It's a chiplet design so maybe they'll be able to use a GDDR6 I/O when it's a consumer GPU and a HBM3 I/O when it's a data center GPU. Either that or they'll convert CDNA3 to use GDDR6. Or maybe CDNA3 will still use HBM3 in consumer GPUs but as a cache.
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AMD obviously dont wana call the discrete GPU's 8000 series and confuse people with their upcoming Strix Halo iGPU's.
for example > Strix Halo Radeon RX 8050S/8060S.
Not sure why nobody has said this already with me being so bad at keeping up
Or maybe theres some 'Over 9000' jokes incoming /s
www.techpowerup.com
for example > Strix Halo Radeon RX 8050S/8060S.
Not sure why nobody has said this already with me being so bad at keeping up
Or maybe theres some 'Over 9000' jokes incoming /s
AMD Strix Halo Radeon 8050S and 8060S iGPU Performance Look Promising - And Confusing
AMD fans are undoubtedly on their toes to witness the performance improvements that Strix Halo is ready to bring forth. Unlike Strix Point, which utilizes a combination of Zen 5c and full-fat Zen 5 cores, Strix Halo will do away with the small cores for a Zen 5 "only" setup, allowing for...
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