hinch said:
So we're fucked basically lol. Well its was a good time while it lasted. Going to be a rough couple of gens. |
Lol, if true, can't say I am surprised after RDNA 3. Honestly I think while chiplet design was the saving grace of Ryzen, it was a death nail for Radeon. For the CPU space, Intel was too cocky and their foundries hit a brick wall struggling to advance past 14nm with good yields. They also had very short socket support. While first gen Ryzen wasn't competitive in gaming at the top end, the i5 7600 4 core 4 thread vs ryzen 5 1600 ended up being in ryzens favor as games became more multi-threaded optimized. Because Intel had a bad rep of continuously producing quad cores for like 4-5+ years, people really wanted something new in the CPU space and with promises of 2020 socket support and being a ton more power efficient, a lot of people were willing to bite despite some initial issues.
With Radeon, that unique advantage that Ryzen was providing is simply not there. MCM as stated by AMD themselves did not have enough bandwidth between the interconnects to make multi-die GCDs work with gaming. So they settled with MCDs instead. But all this R&D spending into making MCM designs work clearly resulted into other issues. The GCD isn't all that performant compared to a 4090 while a 6900XT could take on a 3090 in Raster from a previous gen. They needed to make a separate driver branch (according to yuzu devs) specifically for RDNA 3 likely because of MCM design while RDNA 2 and the rest are all on a unified driver branch. And RDNA 3 is very inefficient despite being on the same node as ADA and it has abnormally high idle power as you increase the resolution/hz and the number of monitors. And of course, the software stack is no where near as comprehensive. We are still waiting for FSR 3 9 months after it was announced while FSR 2 is losing to XeSS.
And worst of all, because of all those issues, reviewers dunked on RDNA 3 pretty hard which resulted in discounts very quickly which means all those savings likely went out the window. I think if they stuck with Monolith design like Nvidia and continued their trajectory they started with RDNA 2, this generation would have been a lot more competitive imo.
Instead, 4090 will likely be the 1080 Ti of this generation even if it's expensive as 5000 prices will likely be going through the roof.
PC Specs: CPU: 7800X3D || GPU: Strix 4090 || RAM: 32GB DDR5 6000 || Main SSD: WD 2TB SN850
