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AMD Teases Radeon RX 9000 Series Launch Event, Date Not Specified

I've wrote this many times already. I personally don't care about any upscaling technology. And neither for RT, since it's still in its infancy, and is simply non-existant without upscalers and denoisers.

What I care about, is same or better performance than 4080S/7900XTX, or at least 7900GRE. Without this, there's no progress. Also, I care about proper media codec support/ encode/decode, because for all these years, AMD top SKUs were loosing even to the tiny chips built-in intel CPUs, and nVidia's lowest tiers GPUs. This has to stop already.

And of course, the power consumption. the leaked 260W TDP/TBP is all good, but these tripple 8-pin, doesn't bring a confidence. Of course, there might be no need for this, and it can be just the dumb outdated lazy AIB's unnecessary OC design, for just couple % performance uplift for %%% of excessive power consumption. And there ofc are dual slot/dual connector solutions for the same SKUs. But that sadly usually comes at price of much more inferior PCB and VRM design and component quality.

If this thing will tick all these boxes, 9070 or XT is contender IMHO. All is needed, is for AMD to finally get their sh*t together, and sort all the stuff going around the web, with single piece of official data/info. And of course the reviews, which might be already in work, considering the amount of reports about stong supplies.

DaemonForce said:
They're definitely waiting on something important but the stock has been ready and waiting for a while.
There must be something mission critical at play here which tells me it's an issue with software and nothing else.
I have never seen AMD so stuck on this before. They must have overshot their development schedule by a lot.
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You guys can say anything. However this looks really close to RX5700XT, and 5600XT screwed launch, but his time AMD just delayed the launch itself.
 
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If the 9070XT isn't 20% better than my GRE, I might end up with the greenies...:eek:
 
BlaezaLite said:
If the 9070XT isn't 20% better than my GRE, I might end up with the greenies...:eek:
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+20% on what?

1. Raster
2. RT
3. Upscaling
4. FG
5. AI

:D

I think I know what you mean
Just want to entertain the notions of this new Era we have entered…
 
Zach_01 said:
+20% on what?

1. Raster
2. RT
3. Upscaling
4. FG
5. AI

:D

I think I know what you mean
Just want to entertain the notions of this new Era we have entered…
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No, your point is totally valid. There's more than one way to look at a graphics card these days.

BlaezaLite said:
If the 9070XT isn't 20% better than my GRE, I might end up with the greenies...:eek:
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I'd just keep the GRE if I were you.
 
AusWolf said:
I'd just keep the GRE if I were you.
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Exactly! If it serves the needs, it's better to keep the device. It's not, that the current GPU is incapable for the "requirements" of the hobby. This is the era, when the graphic cards have became the extreme luxury items. And swapping them leads to unnecessary expenses for a tiny uplift.
 
My thoughts on the 3 8 pin. There were 7900XT and XTX models that came with 2 or 3 8 pins. What is true about at 7000 is that they OC quite well. These units may come from the factory already tuned. Like the Nitro vs Pulse series from Sapphire. They even used to put ARGB and 4 pin PWM headers on some of those boards. Some of them just give you the OC and lot's of bling.
 
kapone32 said:
My thoughts on the 3 8 pin. There were 7900XT and XTX models that came with 2 or 3 8 pins. What is true about at 7000 is that they OC quite well. These units may come from the factory already tuned. Like the Nitro vs Pulse series from Sapphire. They even used to put ARGB and 4 pin PWM headers on some of those boards. Some of them just give you the OC and lot's of bling.
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This may sound dumb... But what 's really interesting, is if the third connector is required for the OC only? And whether MBA ones have only two of these, and which are the reference/default clocks? Also, could the user get away with only two connectors, in case of undervolt, and potential undeclock?
 
Random_User said:
This may sound dumb... But what 's really interesting, is if the third connector is required for the OC only? And whether MBA ones have only two of these, and which are the reference/default clocks? Also, could the user get away with only two connectors, in case of undervolt, and potential undeclock?
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The only difference is a higher OC due to more available power. Undervolting should be no different.
 
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