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Darc Requiem said:

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Nvidia going open-source is an unexpected, but welcome, news. We'll see how far they go with it.

AMD's RDNA3.5 looks very good. A 15% improvement is nothing to complain about for a revision. I wonder why AMD hasn't refreshed its RDNA3 cards with this new revision bringing more performance, lower power consumption of both. Seems like a missed opportunity.
Well, either that or RDNA4 is just 3.5 with a new ray tracing solution. That woujld be terrible for us.

Am I mistaken or is RDNA3.5 just a re-taped out version of RDNA3 that hits it's original performance targets? IIRC RDNA3 missed AMD's intended performance numbers by 15% to 20%. I get the impression that Radeon's budget/resources are really limited in comparison to Ryzen. It really shows in how they move. The most recent example being FSR. They didn't have the resources to work on improving the upscaler and Frame Generation. So they just focused on the latter leading to FSR being stuck at 2.2 for well over a year. A refreshed RDNA3.5 lineup akin to Nvidia's "Super" series could have been interesting. I'm not sure what kind of naming scheme they could have went with, but a 7900XT based on RDNA3.5 would likely have matched the current 7900XTX. While a RDNA3.5 based 7900XTX would still fall short of the 4090, it still would be ahead of the 4080/4080 Super by 15% to 20% in Raster. 

I remember the rumors about AMD missing the target they had with RDNA3, with those leaks of the cards hitting 3GHz, but I don't know if they were ever confirmed.

The refreshed products could have certainly put more pressure on Nvidia, but we'll never know what would have happened. The naming scheme could have been the same one used with the previous gen, adding a xx50 to the new cards (7950XTX, 7850XT, 7750XT, ...).

And yes, AMD really needs to step up their software teans. Maybe the article Jizz posted some days ago about AMD moving on to become a software company first is a sign of things to come, hopefully sooner rather than later.