| hinch said: Navi 33 (RX 7700 XT??) leak from MLID - rumor, take with pinch of salt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tefqiCaikGkSupposedly going to use PCIe 5.0 x8 and 8GB RAM. Yeesh. Nice one AMD, can't have it being too good now >_> The key thing missing being the RT performance. Hopefully they can deliver this time. |
Lol I hope it's not true but I wouldn't doubt AMD continuing down it's greed path next gen. We have seen x8 affecting performance of low end cards already if they use PCi-E gen 3 and many people are on PCI-E gen 4 that I doubt will be upgrading anytime soon. So putting x8 on a 6900XT performance class will absolutely hamper performance for many people that are using PCI-E gen 4. Ironically if you buy Alder Lake S as those come with Gen 5 PCI-E, it will be a better pairing than getting Zen 3 assuming the rumour is true and you want to get RDNA 3. Not to mention, who knows how Direct Storage will interact with it as well.
But this is the new AMD, where it's margins first, customers later. You want the privilege of being able to use the full potential of your GPU? Upgrade to Zen 4 or pay more to get a x16 GPU! I'd love to hear the excuses that AMD fans will make then. Ray Tracing? Who needs that? DLSS? Gimmick af, rebranding existing tech and calling it FSR is good enough! PCI-E lanes? Don't worry about it! Shat memory bus? Infinity Cache is good enough! Terrible Encoder? No one streams anyway! RTX Voice? Who uses voice chat? Hardware acceleration for Pro software? Just buy Apple instead! As long as I have my Vram and power efficiency, that's all I need!
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850
