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EricHiggin on 08 April 2024
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JEMC said:
EricHiggin said:

Last time AMD Radeon only bothered with mid tier cards was the 400/500 Polaris series, which is also the same timeframe that PS4 Pro launched.
PS5 Pro is supposedly launching this holiday and now we're apparently only getting mid tier RDNA4 8000 series cards during the same timeframe.

I think I see a pattern.

The last time AMD only had mid tier cards was with the first RDNA cards in the form of the RX 5000 series, topping out with the 5700 XT, which was a farily competitive card, tying with the 2070 in raster (the first gen RDNA cards didn't have ray tracing hardware in them).

What about Vega VII? Wasn't that supposed to be the high end flagship that competed with the 2080? I know it's not quite typical since Vega was the old GCN arch and RDNA was the new arch, but AMD did make the effort to attempt to compete with something. Whereas they didn't bother with GCN4 (Polaris) and it sounds right now like they won't with RDNA4, and both are when the mid gen console upgrades happened.



PS1   - ! - We must build a console that can alert our enemies.

PS2  - @- We must build a console that offers online living room gaming.

PS3   - #- We must build a console that’s powerful, social, costs and does everything.

PS4   - $- We must build a console that’s affordable, charges for services, and pumps out exclusives.

PRO  -%-We must build a console that's VR ready, checkerboard upscales, and sells but a fraction of the money printer.

PS5   - ^ -We must build a console that’s a generational cross product, with RT lighting, and price hiking.

PRO  -&- We must build a console that Super Res upscales and continues the cost increases.