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haxxiy said:

Pemalite said:

haxxiy said:

I think the biggest issue currently is just the drivers.
In theory in raster, RDNA3 should be beating the Geforce 4080, not just matching it.

In some benchmarks we see a glimpse of it's potential and it looks great, but other titles it falls short... Which to me shows that the immature drivers are holding it back, which is par the course for AMD and it's launch GPU's.

But in saying that, we can only take the GPU on the basis of how it performs today, not how it may perform in 6 months time.

I am personally not happy with it costing $1,800 AUD, hoping the 7800 series is a little more sensible... But I don't think they will come under $1,000 AUD either.

This might be the case, but I still think AMD should have brute-forced it to 3 GHz with an extra 100W. It'd be near the 4090 instead of the 4080 in raster for $600 less.

That seems much more marketable to me, and one would get 4080 levels of RT for $200 less too. I'm not sure people would care if it's rated 450W given the 4090 is there (despite it not consuming that much in gaming without RT).

Maybe AMD considered all of this but was just too late to change the reference design.

I wouldn't be too hyped about the OC numbers until we see more. Techpowerup needed to push the clocks up to 3.2Ghz with aggressive OC, unvolting and Turning to get near the 4090 stock levels in Cyberpunk Raster and we have no idea how much power they needed to push. Most review outlets only managed to OC to 3Ghz with the TUF and the performance ended up being only 5% more in averages which you can easily do with a 4080 as well:

https://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/asus_tuf_gaming_radeon_rx_7900_xtx_oc_review,30.html

Not to mention, 4080 level Ray Tracing would still be too far out of reach even with OC:

At best, it will likely be 3090 Ti levels

So it's better to wait and see before claiming it will be near the 4090 Raster or 4080 RT levels but it certainly should have been higher than what the reference shipped with.