New AMD GPUs to launch July 7th.

[Pemalite]

Trumpstyle said:

Random_Matt said:
Having decided to look into the cards the more I have decided they are a little shit. The power draw is the interesting one, if the XT is drawing 225W at 40 CU, what is it going to be at lets say 50 or 60? A higher spec card could hit over 300W, and at a lower power draw would probably match it with a 1660 TI.

Another thing is these boost clocks or was it opportunistic clocks, are these numbers shown against a 2070 accurate for out the box retail cards? Let us not forget the fudged numbers AMD produced for Fury which ended up being a load of bullshit.

50-60 CU's? hehe, rumor has it the high end Navi will have 80CU with HBM memory and it will use tsmc 7nm+, will have ray tracing hardware too. HBM and 7nm+ should save some power and AMD can just lower the clock slightly if needed.

Also I don't think AMD will call the card Navi, look at their roadmap, it says Navi 2019 and next-gen 2020 with 7nm+. A different name is certained.

Depends. If AMD emmploys RNDA2 on Navi 20, then possibly it will have the tracing of rays.
The rumors I have seen have pegged it at 60 CU's though... But early days yet... And grains of salt need to be taken with all rumors.

In saying that, I am keen as ducks nuts for AMD Arcturus.

fatslob-:O said:

Pemalite said:

There are cracks for Steam games available which makes your entire argument pretty much redundant.

It doesn't when game publishers are moving away from Steam anyways so PC gamers are still pretty much left in the same dilemma as those cloud gaming subscribers in the end ... 

It is becoming increasingly impossible to do preservation on PC because everything other than GoG or even Steam are gaining traction ... 

If you're a PC gamer, you're forced to use either Activision, EA, or Ubisoft's own authentication system even if you purchased those games from Steam so it's no biggie if you lose control of hardware as well because the compelling case to keep it doesn't exist anymore ... 

Steam is the defacto platform on the PC.

Cracks exist for EA/Origin/Blizzard/Ubisoft's games on their respective stores... So your argument is still pretty much redundant.