Was FSR 4 codeveloped strictly for the PS5 Pro?!
Why would it be? Sony has their own proprietary tech, and... the PS5 is miserably obsolete technology by now. Pro included. Switch 2 is adopting Ampere in all its half a decade old glory in a cut that performs below the lowest laptop RTX and even the MX 570... I don't expect significant advances in audiovisual fidelity any time soon, especially as Microsoft and Sony have been unable to maintain distribution and steady prices for this existing hardware as is (in fact, Microsoft issued an official price hike for all Xbox products this week).
Doesn't the Radeon PRO W9000 series have ROCm support, or is that yet to be revealed? I'm not sure if that means ROCm support on all RDNA 4 cards?!
Nothing is confirmed at this time.
This is based on a Reddit post analyzing patents that may or may not relate to UDNA. RT performance depends on several factors, including base rasterization performance. That said, considering the credibility of the source, it’s best to temper expectations for now.
If AMD decides to go all-in on 2nm, don’t expect low prices. However, significant performance gains are likely, especially since they haven’t adopted GDDR7 yet. When they do, future revisions will likely be much faster.
It is happening, at least for Zen 6.
I made this case before and I'll say it again... for the GPU realm, I believe it's the wrong move, even 2 years from now. These latest generation nodes serve no purpose for home computing anymore. The products are in extremely high demand in stupidly profitable, very high margin, reliable corporate segments. Unless you want the GPU pricing situation to continue and worsen over time, forget about these hyper fancy 3 and 2 nm chips. Make stuff with current 7 and 5 nm technology, it's better for all of us.
Everyone who is saying AMD need to catch up with NV on features or/ML/Ai etc all they want is the same performance/comparable feature set, so it will force NV to lower their prices and they have no intention of buying AMD even if it was to outperform NV, they just beat around the bush and sugarcoat it like they want more competition, they don't, they want more perf from NV for less $, facts! keep buying the monopoly leader and wishing for more performance for less cost, sure that will work out well for you as it has already, or buy the fucking competition and stop complaining about NV charging a kidney for mediocre products that barely improve gen on gen, and it's only got worse with Shatwell..... ohhhhhhhh we want 32/48GB vram cause we want to use our GPU's for pro workloads but only want to pay consumer prices, Ai is a friggen cancer in the tech industry that thanks to the millions of GPU's companies have bought at extortionate prices isn't going away any time soon as they need to recoup that investment, and it will be us paying for it
This rhetoric was weird last year and it's even weirder now. Corporate brand allegiance is something only a dimwit has, GPU vendors are not sports clubs, you don't have to feel proud you have an AMD or Nvidia GPU. This behavior is the primary entry port to justify abusive pricing, especially when there is a large gap in both companies' products. You want to know why I purchased an RTX 5090 over a 9070 XT? Here, this is why:
That's really all there is to it, and at that scale, it was worth both the price (which was my regional MSRP) and even the excruciatingly long wait for it. AMD addressed most of my technological concerns with the 9070 XT, such as the media encoder and OpenGL performance. What they are sorely lacking right now is a compute runtime that is as seamless and broadly supported as CUDA. They are aware of it, they are working on it, they will get there. It takes time. What they cannot offer me right now is the performance I want. The 9070 XT isn't better than the card I had, and the vanilla 9070 barely matches the one I had 5 years ago. Not exactly appetizing, yet... these performance figures are actually
excellent, and there is no game that it won't masterfully run right now, at very good resolutions and frame rates. The largest majority of people should be very happy with it, and from the looks of it, they are, because all reports on the internet on both specialized and general media point out that these cards are selling exceptionally well and AMD is recovering market share, as expected.
Once they up their driver release schedule, get ROCm or whatever bundled runtime going, and increase the performance to match NV's, then I'll happily buy another AMD card for my main machine. I need to add though, you missed the critical issue: it's not that gamers pay for expensive cards. We're irrelevant, even as a collective group. They just have next to no incentive to build and maintain gaming cards when they can get the same silicon and sell it to the AI customers at triple the price and half the effort.