Captain_Yuri said:
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! |
Yeah, its not a good look tbh. Its like they intentionally gimped it to upsell for the their new stuff (Zen 4+mobos). And AMD fans will still suck it up. Despite 'only' losing a few percent performance from going x8 on PCI-E 4 motherboard its still a shitty move.
Honestly leaves a bad taste in consumers mouths and doesn't help AMD's reputation in the GPU front. They are already way behind Nvidia in market share and its easy to see why. So many feature sets completely missing or way behind the competition.. as we get inferior cards from AMD on top of being more pricey. I digress. Their CPU department has also made questionable choices, with only now them releasing low end CPU's for Zen 3 when they're being demolished by Intel from Alderlake. It just reeks of greed and complacency when they have competitive products available.
Should this be true I really want Lovelace to completely destroy this in Raytracing and the next generation of DLSS because this shit is depressing after a crap couple of years of GPU shortages and well the pandemic we're still getting shat upon lol.
I mean 8GB, X8 PCI-e just isn't good enough for a mid range card in 2022. Never mind the egregious pricing going on nowadays.
Last edited by hinch - on 09 April 2022
