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EricHiggin on 10 April 2024
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haxxiy said:
EricHiggin said:

Well the RTX 4000 cards aren't exactly power efficient or cheap, not to mention the 4090, which doesn't exactly feel like a consumer grade card unless you want to deem it a halo flagship product as well. I mean does the 4090 not count at all then?

You also have the RX 7900 branding when it should really be 7800, which AMD did to try to appear to be competing with the highest Nvidia tier, so would it really count for them to be truly competing this generation either?

To keep from muddying the waters too much, to me it looks like the times that are clear when AMD only aimed at mid tier generations were the 400/500 series and the upcoming 8000 series.

They kind of are, though (efficient, I mean, not cheap). Of course, they're also flattered by the small efficiency increases of AMD and the GeForce 30 series.

I'd file it under sorta maybe but not really. I think it was the most recent presentation where Nvidia showed how much more performance the upcoming cards were going to have vs past cards, and they used like FP8 for the upcoming cards, FP16 for the present cards, and FP32 for the prior gen. Which of course made the performance gains look monstrous, instead of the truth with each being shown with the same measurement. You don't do that if you're performance/efficiency is good, and that hasn't been the case for a few gen's now for Nvidia. Radeon cards aren't exactly sipping power either though.



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