most stuff use ffmpeg anyway

I am shocked that AMD has not developed a card that can compete with the 5090, toe to toe.

HBSoundI am shocked that AMD has not developed a card that can compete with the 5090, toe to toe.

There is no market for such cards. Paystation and small handheld p(l)aystations are the way to go. They made it quite clear - no high end chips.

AMD's Windows driver naming scheme is YY.MM.<release_num>. They apparently still use the year part for the linux driver, but where does the 10 come from?

HBSoundI am shocked that AMD has not developed a card that can compete with the 5090, toe to toe.

Im more "shocked" (well not really because Ive been alive for long enough to see crap coming from miles way) that they have not released a sub 600 dollar card yet which is what THEY claimed the market wanted most....

ZoneDymoIm more "shocked" (well not really because Ive been alive for long enough to see crap coming from miles way) that they have not released a sub 600 dollar card yet which is what THEY claimed the market wanted most....

They have. I'm sure you mean retail pricing though, so let's slide back and look a little wider: let's compare the current model lineups for this generation. I will use the cheapest in-stock US etailer price I can find.


Unilaterally, prices are being increased over MSRP except for (and I imagine this was due to a great deal of pressure and/or stock saturation on Nvidia's part) the RTX 5060, with the RX 9070 XT being hit the hardest—which I imagine is because it is the card with the greatest level of interest to buyers. The whole 'fake MSRP' debacle I think misses the point: MSRP is the intended price for these cards. The cards being hiked significantly over MSRP, even on base models, is because the retailer genuinely believes people will pay such a price, and I've half a mind to say they're correct.

People aren't nearly as frugal and shrewd as you'd expect them to be. A similar effect has been happening in the auto market: dealerships have hiked prices well over MSRP expecting that they'll be able to sell a car at that price, and they continue to get away with it, to the point that it's now causing an upward trend in used car pricing. Sound familiar? Far as I'm concerned, the only way to have an effect on it from here is to sow disinterest in these cards at these prices, and to espouse that patience will bring a better deal. Nothing burns a bigger hole in retailers' pockets than stationary stock. I'm ready to hold on to my 3060 for a generation longer, if I must.

_roman_most stuff use ffmpeg anyway

That's not really relevant, ffmpeg also supported the AMF backend and it was just one example.
AMD is just recommending the VAAPI backend instead of AMF now, and that's valid for any program that relies hardware-accelerated (de|en)coding.

I don't think this means AMF has been deprecated (yet), one can get it alongside the proprietary vk and ogl drivers somewhere else.