Captain_Yuri said:
Idk how a company can create a chiplet architecture that is more inefficient than monolith but here we are... Even their transient spikes feels like Ampere spikes but on TSMC. Overall both the 7900XTX and 4080 are terrible products for the price. Hopefully both will get a price cut sooner than later. |
Agree, overall. As I mentioned in my post above, when dealing with high-tier cards, people go for the sheer performance. If RT is one generation behind, and there's no advantage in wattage, the selling points decrease for AMD. People are counting cost-per-frame, but failing to take into consideration the superior RT performance, as well as what will likely be immense strides in DLSS 3.0 in the coming 1-2 years. I really can't believe how poorly they managed the efficiency on these cards, they're thirsty as hell. I was equally surprised by the new line of Ryzen CPUs; they have some insane consumption figures attached to them.
Personally, I think that the 4080 will still be tough to move, at this price at least. There were probably a few gamers on the fence, waiting to see what RDNA3 could provide. I have a feeling most of them were a bit disappointed, I know I was. This reminds me of when I waited to get the 980 Ti, waiting to see what AMD had to offer. Turned out to be a waste of time back then, I believe this to be the same case. As you say, a couple of hundred dollars this way or that isn't much when dealing with folks willing to dish out 1000$ + on a GPU.
