AMD Ryzen 7000 prices in free fall, Ryzen 9 7950X drops to $569
https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryzen-7000-prices-in-free-fall-ryzen-9-7950x-drops-to-569
Pretty much what happens when you go full greed mode on a product that was only the fastest for like 3 weeks. While these discounts fix one part of their greed, it doesn't yet fix the second part which is the motherboard prices. What AMD should have done is released two configurations, B650 and X670 with the difference being PCI-E Gen 5. Instead they went full retard mode and released 4 different motherboard configs: B650, B650E, X670, X670E while Intel had their Z690 motherboards costing only $200 vs AMD's $500 X670E. So high end buyers will just get Raptor Lake cause it's the fastest while value buyers will stick with AM4 cause Gen 5 is restricted to E boards and why upgrade to get only 5% faster gaming performance vs 5800X3D while keeping the same pci-e gen?
AMD Radeon RX 7900 ‘22.12.2’ Drivers To Improve Video Playback Power Usage Amongst Other Fixes
Good that they fixed that issue but still a long way to go
AMD Ryzen 7000 Non-X CPU Benchmarks Leak: Ryzen 9 7900 On Par With 12900KS, Ryzen 7 7700 & Ryzen 5 7600 Cover The Mainstream
Intel Reorganises its Graphics Chip Division, Raja Koduri Seemingly Demoted
Certainly a big money sink. Hopefully Intel doesn't close it's GPU division anytime soon cause we do need a third player.
AMD's RDNA 3 announcement, the 7900 XTX is up to 70% faster than the 6950 XT, shows a 50% baseline.
— Hardware Unboxed (@HardwareUnboxed) December 21, 2022
AMD review guide later reveals a 45% average uplift.
The reality based on review data is 32 - 40% with the average across reviews being 37%.
Source: https://t.co/HoklCF9GPK pic.twitter.com/tGYFAqmKeK
Good that people are catching on to AMDs lies. While I do suspect Radeon will eventually fix their drivers and improve performance closer to their 45% target, all they have shown during their announcement is how dirty and miss leading they can be. They gotten a lot of good will from Ryzen and RDNA in the past which they decided to throw away in favor of creating hype. While $1000 may not seem as much money as Nvidia's prices, it's still a lot of money to pay for a broken product (Not that I am suggesting getting a 4080). If you ever need an example of Radeon being shady or an example why Nvidia has better drivers than Radeon, we can all point to RDNA 3.
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850