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The thread which sometimes talks about RDNA2

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HRL said:
Yep, the same as every other GPU that has ever been OC’d.
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What makes this different is that AMD benchmarked some of it's cards against stock competitor cards using an overclocking tool which it recommends you, the user, do not use if you want to keep your warranty.

that just rubs me the wrong way, its quite deceptive
 
Im surprised not much has been said about them putting an overclocked 6900 XT, up against a stock 3090, used to get hundreds and hundreds of pages of ******* hell on about overclocked Vs stock cards on here, how things change ey :p
 
Grim5 said:
What makes this different is that AMD benchmarked some of it's cards against stock competitor cards using an overclocking tool which it recommends you, the user, do not use if you want to keep your warranty.

that just rubs me the wrong way, its quite deceptive
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Reasons why I don't particually trust benchmarks provided by CPU/GPU makers
 
Grim5 said:
What makes this different is that AMD benchmarked some of it's cards against stock competitor cards using an overclocking tool which it recommends you, the user, do not use if you want to keep your warranty.

that just rubs me the wrong way, its quite deceptive
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I thought they'd confirmed that it doesn't void warranty?
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Im surprised not much has been said about them putting an overclocked 6900 XT, up against a stock 3090, used to get hundreds and hundreds of pages of ******* hell on about overclocked Vs stock cards on here, how things change ey :p
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everyone loves an underdog, maybe its got underdog leeway:D
 
Grim5 said:
What makes this different is that AMD benchmarked some of it's cards against stock competitor cards using an overclocking tool which it recommends you, the user, do not use if you want to keep your warranty.

that just rubs me the wrong way, its quite deceptive
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AMD confirmed warranty is good.

https://twitter.com/CDemerjian/status/1321594177105309696?s=20



".... These operating modes are fully supported by AMD and will not invalidate the product warranty. In fact, we will be updating the EULA in Radeon Software to clarify."
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MCFC_ANDY said:
i love my nitro, used sapphire for many moons, my 64 nitro only running on 2 fans and still o/c fine, i will be buying the sapphire, unless they screw it up, which is highly unlikely
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I did think that Sapphire had the majority of better cards. I had been advised to get a Red devil over a sapphire though so thought I should ask here.

NathG79 said:
I have the Vega 64 currently and will definitely be taking the plunge.
Hopefully a 6900XT for me.
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Nice! I think a 6800XT is enough for me. The 6900XT is a bit expensive for my liking. It may come down in price by the time I buy though.
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Im surprised not much has been said about them putting an overclocked 6900 XT, up against a stock 3090, used to get hundreds and hundreds of pages of ******* hell on about overclocked Vs stock cards on here, how things change ey :p
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I mean it wasn't overclocked, RAGE mode doesn't adjust the clocks just the power budget :D. It's not like they didn't put it very clearly on the slide either.
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Im surprised not much has been said about them putting an overclocked 6900 XT, up against a stock 3090, used to get hundreds and hundreds of pages of ******* hell on about overclocked Vs stock cards on here, how things change ey :p
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I personally just assumed that meant that the 6900XT wasn't fast enough at stock to get the job done. I expect independent reviews show that it's measurably, yet imperceptibly, slower than a 3090 when running stock.

I'm not mad about it for two reasons:
1) They listed that it was overclocked and using the SAM trick on the slide.
2) It's priced a LOT lower than the 3090
 
melmac said:
I think you are misunderstanding a few things about Ray Tracing. RDNA 2 does have Hardware accelerated Ray Tracing.

And there isn't AMD's Ray tracing or Nvidia's Ray Tracing in the way that you mean. There is just Ray Tracing. The game engine will just use whichever hardware is available. And if there isn't a card capable of HW Ray Tracing then the game engine will use the software fallback layer provided by Vulkan now and Dx12 Ultimate when it's released later this year.
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Not right. RT implantation by AMD is completely different to how Nvidia does it. They are called Ray tracing it doesn’t mean they are following the same specification.
melmac said:
I think you are misunderstanding a few things about Ray Tracing. RDNA 2 does have Hardware accelerated Ray Tracing.

And there isn't AMD's Ray tracing or Nvidia's Ray Tracing in the way that you mean. There is just Ray Tracing. The game engine will just use whichever hardware is available. And if there isn't a card capable of HW Ray Tracing then the game engine will use the software fallback layer provided by Vulkan now and Dx12 Ultimate when it's released later this year.
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sorry youa re right, i misunderstood the article i was reading about the AMD implementation and Nvidia implementation. it was talking about software render which I wrongly assumed was AMD's way. both AMD and Nvidia have hardware to deal with DXR it is how the hardware cores (architecture) that is fundamentally different.

there is still better milage in AMD cards atm as VRAM is larger. also the console gaming potentially will give them an edge as the engines will be optmised for AMD hardware than Nvidia.
 
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