Summary from reddit
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Der8auer respects Scott’s decision to make an official statement at CES during an interview instead of going “no comment”. But he doesn’t like the way the issue seems to be handled.
AMD is relying on users testing their card and then contacting them if they can identify the issue, instead of recalling the problematic batches through serial number identification. He finds it unacceptable to let users troubleshoot such an issue instead of handling it themselves, this is an expensive GPU. He says that AMD either doesn’t care or they just don’t know which batches are affected and that’s just as worrisome.
He disagrees with the “small performance loss” statement, as the affected cards can lose 70W of cooling capacity which makes a significant impact on a 355W TGP card.
One affected 7900XTX happened to be defective as well. He doesn’t believe the issue is related at all though, just a regular VRM failure
He insists that if AMD who claims to have identified the issue wants to make things right they should be the one contacting customers with cards from the affected batches to handle the RMA instead of waiting for customers to test things themselves"
Spend $1000, get treated like you spent $200. Even the reference coolers that aren't broken aren't very good as they are power limited and loud. Least when Nvidias reference coolers you are getting one that performs as good as many AIB coolers.
Intel’s Arc driver update shows shocking improvement
https://www.pcworld.com/article/1448060/checking-up-on-intels-arc-gpu-driver-performance.html
Intel is worth paying attention to because of their position, they are forced to give out a good GPU at low prices. If they can get their drivers sorted by Battlemage and Battlemage is reasonably priced, then perhaps people can start recommending them
NVIDIA reportedly working on ‘AI-optimized drivers’ with improved performance
Take it with massive amounts of salt with that "up to 30% more performance"
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850
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