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Captain_Yuri said:

JEMC said:

So, if the synthetic benchmarks results translate to gaming, Nvidia's new cards will bring quite a nice jump all across the board. Let's hope it's true... and at what cost (both $ and W) they achieve those results.

Meanwhile, now we know that AMD's high end card will use 525W at most. A ridiculous amount. Let's hope the performance jump is worth it.
At least we know it will come with 24GB of VRAM.

And thank God the Ethereum nightmare is over! (Well, almost). Let's hope mining stays quite for a while and leaves us buy GPUs at retail prices, not speculative prices.

I think at the very least, we now know that 7900XT will be at 375 watts at a minimum. Most likely 400 watts. The question is whether or not AMD will do their usual sneaky tdp numbers or if they will go Nvidia route and provide a more legit tdp numbers. Since as we know, Nvidia does their tdp based on the entire card while AMD does their tdp only based on the GPU die and Vram. If they are more honest about it, I think we can see 7900XT being 450 watts. But the real question is where their feature sets are?

Will RDNA 3 have an actual DLSS competitor? Will they be competitive in Ray Tracing? Will they have a competitor to Reflex? How about Nvenc and Optix? I think at the very least, they need to be competitive in Ray Tracing as well as Raster but I get the feeling that when push comes to shove, they will be slightly more efficient while continuing to not be competitive in many areas outside of Raster while charging Nvidia prices.

The reality is the only way Radeon will have a card that's competitive in hardware against Nvidia in every front is to make a card that's as inefficient if not more than Nvidia. But we will see.

No, AMD won't change the way they rate the power usage of their "boards". They think theire method is smarter than everyone else's and they'll keep using it, for better or worse (and it's worse, no doubt about it).

We had rumora about AMD also going to add some specific hardware to handle upscaling, and I hope that's true and it works well. Will it be comparable to DLSS? I have no idea.

I really hope they improve their ray tracing capabilities because it's not only Nvidia, but Intel has also shown that their RT hardware is better than AMDs. And given that RT is not only not going to disappear but become more relevand going forward, AMD really needs to work on that and show a very clear improvement. But it's AMD so, who knows if they'll do it or wait until RDNA4 or whatever to start taking RT seriously.

As for, and pease excuse me for using the term, "gimmicks" like Reflex and the other two (that I didn't even knew before you mentioned them), no, I don't think AMD will have something like that.

At the end of the day, tho, and now that mining may give us a break, neither AMD nor Nvidia will be able to sell their cards unless consumers think they're worth their asking prices so, just for the sake of competitiveness, let's hope that AMD has improved its game on both scaling and RT and we may see a fight in not only availability, but also features and price.