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In my mind, the problem with 7900XTX is that it's performance varies so wildly between games. If you remember, when AMD released 6900XT, they put a slide with ~10 game benchmark and it was very close, they lost some, they won some, but by a very small margin. If 79XTX was consistently faster than 6950XT by 30-40%, then 79XTX would have been a huge success in my book.
AMD were saying that by going to chiplets, they save money, because MCDs are on 6nm node which is much cheaper, and because GCD is just 300mm2, they can get more (+working) GCDs per wafer.
If AMD wanted to become "consumer/gaming friendly", they would go on a marketing blitz, describe that savings with GCD+MCD, and say "we are passing this saving to the customers", start marketing campaign "gaming isn't for rich only" and offer 79XT for 700 MSRP. I think they can sell XT for 700 and still make a lot of money. They would undercut their previous lineup, but we gamers would get a normally priced high end GPU. And they would start getting a larger slice of the market share.
79XT is the most disappointing GPU in the last 3 generations.
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Speculation:
What would happen, if they used RDNA2, made it in 5nm, made it bigger (50% more memory bandwidth*, faster memory*, more Compute Units, more ROPs),... I think they would get better result.
There is something wrong in silicon, that's for sure. 384 bit mem, faster mem, 50% more ROPs, 61 TFLOPS (vs 23TFLOPS for Navi21) and in some games it barely beats 6950?
AMD were saying that by going to chiplets, they save money, because MCDs are on 6nm node which is much cheaper, and because GCD is just 300mm2, they can get more (+working) GCDs per wafer.
If AMD wanted to become "consumer/gaming friendly", they would go on a marketing blitz, describe that savings with GCD+MCD, and say "we are passing this saving to the customers", start marketing campaign "gaming isn't for rich only" and offer 79XT for 700 MSRP. I think they can sell XT for 700 and still make a lot of money. They would undercut their previous lineup, but we gamers would get a normally priced high end GPU. And they would start getting a larger slice of the market share.
79XT is the most disappointing GPU in the last 3 generations.
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Speculation:
What would happen, if they used RDNA2, made it in 5nm, made it bigger (50% more memory bandwidth*, faster memory*, more Compute Units, more ROPs),... I think they would get better result.
There is something wrong in silicon, that's for sure. 384 bit mem, faster mem, 50% more ROPs, 61 TFLOPS (vs 23TFLOPS for Navi21) and in some games it barely beats 6950?
and none in stock 
