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

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 :p
I mean it has been mentioned a few times :)
 
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 :p

Or maybe theres some 'Over 9000' jokes incoming /s :D


Yes and Nvidia did the same thing. We went from the GTX 700 to the GTX 900 because the GTX 800 series laptop parts would have confused people. The exact same numbering.

It's very strange because the number 8 is considered lucky in Taiwan culture where Lisa and Jenson are from. I've been trying to find meaning.
 
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Yes and Nvidia did the same thing. We went from the GTX 700 to the GTX 900 because the GTX 800 series laptop parts would have confused people. The exact same numbering.

It's very strange because the number 8 is considered lucky in Taiwan culture where Lisa and Jenson are from. I've been trying to find meaning.
They actually went with 8xxx for a short run for their laptop cards: I had an AW m18 with an 8800m GTX. That laptop was a complete lemon and Dellienware replaced it with a laptop with a 9800m GTX which was the exact same card rebranded. I remenber this because, at the time, Dell was concurrently, hilariously selling laptops with option with the 8800 GTX and 9800 GTX with the 9800 option being $200 more.
 
They actually went with 8xxx for a short run for their laptop cards: I had an AW m18 with an 8800m GTX. That laptop was a complete lemon and Dellienware replaced it with a laptop with a 9800m GTX which was the exact same card rebranded. I remenber this because, at the time, Dell was concurrently, hilariously selling laptops with option with the 8800 GTX and 9800 GTX with the 9800 option being $200 more.
Do you mean the 8000 or the 800 series? Cos I believe they were talking about the 800 series.

It gets so confusing, I kind of hate how everyone from apple to zotec seem to just pull random names and numbers out of their bums, in what certainly feels like a purposely confusing attempt to make customers less informed
 
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Do you mean the 8000 or the 800 series? Cos I believe they were talking about the 800 series.

It gets so confusing, I kind of hate how everyone from apple to zotec seem to just pull random names and numbers out of their bums, in what certainly feels like a purposely confusing attempt to make customers less informed
Quite right. I was referring to Tesla.
 
Makes me think, if they go down to 5/6% of the discrete market then will they even continue to bother with it?

Probably not, i don't think that will happen, Sony have given them a kick up the arse probably telling them we need you in this so we are going to work together now, rumour is Sony and AMD have teamed up to develop new features based on AI.
 
Makes me think, if they go down to 5/6% of the discrete market then will they even continue to bother with it?
I feel like we put far more stock in the share of the market. It seems like the gaming segment is growing so for all we know just cos the % went down, overall sales may not have. Might even have sold more, or at least made more money. I certainly don't think AMD is sitting there checking the steam survey to decide if they are going to shut down part of their business or not.
 
Agreed, but it HAS to be better than the GRE for this and poss beyond 7900XT too. Then people will start to take notice (if the non-XT is 350ish too).

It depends on what hardware your working with. They still use GDDR6, not really gone down a node and basing it on refining the older gen with a boost in clock speed will only be able to improve it a little. If they try to advance in the ray tracing front that's great as they should, but are you really trying to get far only on the mid range (specifically RT)? I am just waiting to see what they present first and its only a few days away now.
 
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Yeah if it's equivalent to a GRE then it's DOA if it's any more than $400.

The leak saying 4080ish perf and RT was 45% improved for RE4 sounds believable, and I say that because the 7000 series already outperformed Nvidia in that game for RT, so it's clearly cherry-picked to some degree. If it said Cyberpunk or something then it would seem a bit more far fetched.
 
Vs 7800 XT

Rumours are 64 CU's (+7%)
At 2.8Ghz base to 3.1Ghz boost, my 7800 XT run's at its advertised boost speed in all games, 2430Mhz, so lets assume a flat 3.Ghz (+23.5%)
Memory: 20Gb/s vs 19.5Gb/s, 625 GB/s vs 640 GB/s (+3%)

The slide below is RDNA 3 overclocked to 2.93Ghz and the +7% CU's added on, IMO this is good for a conservative estimate of the RX 9070 XT.

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Yeah if it's equivalent to a GRE then it's DOA if it's any more than $400.

The leak saying 4080ish perf and RT was 45% improved for RE4 sounds believable, and I say that because the 7000 series already outperformed Nvidia in that game for RT, so it's clearly cherry-picked to some degree. If it said Cyberpunk or something then it would seem a bit more far fetched.

If its 7900 XT +1% in raster and +45% on top of that in RT it puts it here in Cyberpunk, honestly i don't think its going to do better than that, and its good enough IMO.

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