That thing about RT. We are in 2023 and most AAA games will have or even require RT acceleration. You can't say you don't care about RT. Atomic Heart, The Witcher, Alan Wake 2, Control 2, Cyberpunk 2, whatever with Unreal Engine 5 etc. will require strong RT performance.
Don't you care for these titles? Only for simply developed competitive MP fps?
AMD cannot charge that amount of money when their cards do not perform in RT. I don't care if they spit 2000fps in 1080p in COD or any other simple game. These games are playable anyway with ancient cards as well, like mine and worse.
I care how they perform where it matters. At 1440p/4K+RT.
By the way, the 7900XTX RT performance is very good. Not just acceptable.
Only in specific nVidia titles, like Portal RTX, it performs poorly.
AMD just had to price it at 799 or 849 max and kill the entire nvidia lineup.
The price should be mostly defined by the RT performance. The raster one is so excessive that it doesn't matter anymore. No matter what card from 3060Ti and above you have, the raster performance is ridiculously high.
I wrote it again. AMD should work with Epic on Unreal Engine 5's software/hardware ray tracing, so their cards perform on RTX level and better. Most next gen titles are being developed using UE5.
Agreed, but the only game using UE5.1 is Fortnite and Radeons are kicking the crap out of GeForces in that game. Go figure, eh?
AMD has already a small advantage by accelerating the consoles but both of them are painfully slow on RT and the developers will cut features from their games.
The pc ports could take the most of the RDNA3 architecture if AMD work together with Epic.
Or nVidia will pay to make use of their tech and screw AMD once again.
Well, don't get me wrong, I think that ATi's management is a bunch of monkeys and clowns. There's no question that they make some REALLY stupid decisions and shoot themselves in the foot with them over and over again. I'm honestly surprised that Lisa Su doesn't analyse whatever's wrong and fix it like she did with the CPU side.
I have various issues with AMD cards:
But none with nVidia cards, eh?
(I couldn't resist!)
I never had that problem, I had a power delivery problem that was fixed with an RMA to XFX. What was yours doing?
Never had an RX 470-590 so I can't comment on that. Polaris was way too expensive because of the mining boom but newegg had some cheap R9 Furies so I grabbed one of those (and then a second one).
I ran twin R9 Furies in crossfire without issue. What do you mean when you say "spike"?
7970Ghz Crossfire gpu usage
I used to run twin HD 7970s in crossfire and loved it. What were yours doing?
6950/70 stability after core unlocking
I didn't have either of those but if you're unlocking the core, you're screwing with the card and it's at your own risk. I only care if the card works normally. Any problems that arise from me screwing with it are MY problems, not the card's.
Yeah, I had none with my 4870 either.
X1950Pro, 9600XT...don't remember) but never with their drivers.
I was actually using nVidia cards at that time.
The DIY pc gamers need a strong nVidia competitor. But AMD and consoles are ...some years behind nVidia.
That's impossible since the RX 7900 XTX mops the floor with EVERY RTX 30-series card. As for RT, well of course they're behind. RT was brought to market by nVidia with the RTX 20-series so they have several more years of development. The fact that people literally throw money at nVidia but expect AMD to catch them isn't just unreasonable, it's insane. I honestly don't care if AMD ever catches nVidia in RT because people just keep moving the goal posts. The RTX 3090 was "fantastic" at RT but the RX 7900 XTX "sucks" even though their performance is similar in most titles. All I want is for AMD to be "good enough" to use and if the RTX 30-series was considered "good enough" to use (and let's be honest, it was its biggest selling point) then nobody should be complaining. People will whine about anything these days, I swear.
Radeon department will not exist if they lose selling tech to the consoles and being 1 gen behind on the pcs for a 3-4 gens.
They've only been behind in RT because their normal gaming performance has been just fine, especially in the RX 6000-series. I was truly shocked to see what they came up with after dicking around with RDNA1. See, I don't evaluate a company based on their halo product. I evaluate them on whether or not they make something that is good FOR ME. If they do, great. If they don't, then they suck, but only for me. I don't look at the RTX 4090 and just decide that EVERY GeForce GPU is better than EVERY Radeon GPU because half of the battle is the implementation. I like AMD's implementation of Radeon better than nVidia's implementation of GeForce. Sure, they make a lot of hairbrained moves, but they're not vindictive or malicious like nVidia and Intel tend to be.
