EricHiggin on 10 June 2019
| Pemalite said: So doing some digging. Looks like RDNA is a "Hybrid" design that bridges GCN to RDNA. Lots of changes under the hood, but it's still very easy for developers to leverage it if they have worked with GCN for a long time. The doubling of the ROPS is a big boost... And one bottleneck of GCN gone, reducing wavefront size and increasing SIMD size so they match is another big Pro' as well and another GCN bottleneck gone. Uplift in bandwidth and chip-wide delta colour compression and much improved caches resolves another GCN bottleneck. It's going to result in a substantial uptick in performance per teraflop either way... I would not be surprised to see a 50% performance uplift over the RX 590. The RX 5700 XT is likely going to be my next GPU. ***** AMD's Ryzen 9 3950X, 16 cores, 32 threads, 3.5 - 4.7Ghz might be my next CPU of choice if Intel doesn't provide me with an appropriate alternative. |
Intel says buy a 9900KS.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3401083/intel-challenges-amds-ryzen-3000-cpus-to-take-the-core-i9-9900ks-real-world-gaming-crown.html
The Radeon 5700 series looks pretty decent based on what's been shown off. Looks like they aren't to focused on ray tracing just yet though.
