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JEMC said:

Captain_Yuri said:

AMD rumored to be working on another Navi 3X GPU with 16384 Stream Processors

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-rumored-to-be-working-on-another-navi-3x-gpu-with-16384-stream-processors

Take it with a grain of salt. AMD leakers have been very wrong lately.

I'm getting tired of AMD leaks.

First we got, for months, that Navi 31 & 32 would use chiplets and have up to 16384 cores. Then came RedGamingTech a month or so ago saying that no, that we should forget about chiplets, that the cards would still use monolithic designs and have up to 12288 cores.

Yet one of the few things we learned during those AMD's financial days is that RDNA3 will use chiplets, putting that last "leak" to rest.

Now comes greymon again with a Navi 3x GPU featuring the originally rumored 16384 cores, kind of putting another nail at RedGamingTech's coffin, that answers this new "leak" with a "rumor" of his own: that this is for a Pro card because chiplets aren't coming until RDNA4/Navi4x... which still goes against what AMD themselves said. I call this bullsh!t.

We should forget anything that came out from RedGamingTech and go back to the previous rumors.

Mind you, they are still rumors and must be treated as such, but at least they aren't going against what AMD says.

It's worth to remember that the MSRP of a 3060Ti is $399, therefore those $300-350 are a good deal. Or they would if the cards hadn't been on use 24/7 during who knows how long.

Yea as far as what I think are reliable sources, youtubers are generally the least reliable. The main reason is what a youtuber's purpose is at their core which is to make money hence they do frequent videos with no sources. Then comes the twitter only leakers. As far as confidence in leakers go, there's generally a difference between a reliable leaker vs an unreliable one. Greymon imo is generally unreliable but sometimes, he hits the mark. Kopite is the most reliable leaker and the big difference you see between the two is Kopite rarely posts anything until we get close to launch where as Greymon posts very frequently.

Of course, there are somethings Kopite and every other leaker gets wrong like price, release date and announcement date. Any leaker that claims they know it is full of shit. Because even if they do, the reality is those things are never set in stone. But the specs of GPUs and such, those are hard to change.

But the main thing is always to make sure that while the leaks and rumours make for a fun discussion, never to use them as facts until the fat lady sings so to speak.

I think Linus Tech Tips did a pretty good video back in the day to see how mining cards performed and assuming the miners weren't stupid and undervolted their GPU which they should as it saves on electricity bills and gives a better ROI, getting a card that has been mined on isn't the worst thing in the world. These cards are designed to run for 5-7 years even under terrible conditions. As long as they were smart enough to undervolt them, then I suspect there won't be any issues even long term.

But the biggest thing this will do is hopefully force some actual sales from retailers. Back when Pascal had the GPU sell off, you could have bought a 1080 Ti for like $400-$500 even brand new which was insane at the time. And in the used market, some were going for as low as $300 from what I saw. I wouldn't be surprised if we see a 3080 12GB for $600 soon enough.