AMD RDNA3 Specifications Discussion Thread

Well if its true and they are goign to go for a respin with bug fixes why blow your load on a crazy power hungry card when you can swim in the $1000 end of the pool and have a bigger splash when the higher clocked fixed part comes out ?
The issue is that the marked is not looking good. Amd have to sell any card they have. Why not selling now the card with high power and later you bring a little bit faster and less consuming variant.
 
The issue is that the marked is not looking good. Amd have to sell any card they have. Why not selling now the card with high power and later you bring a little bit faster and less consuming variant.
How would that change things? It's going to perform somewhere between a 4080 and 4090 in either scenario, but if they drastically increase the power they lose all their marketing on perf/W, card size, not needing a PSU replacement etc and it's going to get memed as another vega
 
Well if its true and they are goign to go for a respin with bug fixes why blow your load on a crazy power hungry card when you can swim in the $1000 end of the pool and have a bigger splash when the higher clocked fixed part comes out ?
The investors.

AMD is playing their reliable execution card. The roadmap put RDNA3 to 2022 and that's it. It doesn't matter they are barely hitting it with a half-baked chip. It's still 2022.
 
The issue is that the marked is not looking good. Amd have to sell any card they have. Why not selling now the card with high power and later you bring a little bit faster and less consuming variant.
The question is if even hiting those high speed will let them compete at higher price points. IF the cards are competing well at the $900-1k price range and making a profit why push a card to far to get to the next bracket.

The investors.

AMD is playing their reliable execution card. The roadmap put RDNA3 to 2022 and that's it. It doesn't matter they are barely hitting it with a half-baked chip. It's still 2022.
a strong refresh in mid 2023 will still be a good stock bump for them
 
The question is if even hiting those high speed will let them compete at higher price points. IF the cards are competing well at the $900-1k price range and making a profit why push a card to far to get to the next bracket.


a strong refresh in mid 2023 will still be a good stock bump for them

Could see up to a 40% clock increase with N31 respin, and a move to stacked cache should see high resolution and raytracing improvements beyond that. Even if the memory can only be improved by 20% (24gbps) the resulting card should be cost competitive with a 4080 at $1200, even if the 4080 moved to a $1k price point.
 
Eh it's just one part 2 SKUs really.

Should be easy for them to add to the top of the stack then right. Put out a 7950 or something. Either it will launch at $1k cause Nvidia has already dropped the 4080 price or it will drop closer to $1200. Either way its better that than to have a crazy power hungry card just to hit a price point esp if we are talking 6 months of time

Could see up to a 40% clock increase with N31 respin, and a move to stacked cache should see high resolution and raytracing improvements beyond that. Even if the memory can only be improved by 20% (24gbps) the resulting card should be cost competitive with a 4080 at $1200, even if the 4080 moved to a $1k price point.

I am sure that would help them out sure even with out stacked cache. Although the stacked cache could end up making each chiplet smaller and less expensive. Dunno the costs there
 
Investors first, screw the consumers. And everybody's cheering AMD as the "necessary competitor". No thanks.

At least Nvidia doesn't ship broken hardware.
What's "broken" hardware? It's functional, the performance just isn't where it was meant to be and it's priced accordingly. Don't like it, don't buy it – but they aren't "screwing" anyone. You don't think NV ships hardware without all sorts of errata, do you?

That being said, Navi31 seemingly being so busted that the performance is nowhere near where the competitor is and where it was projected to be is a huge failure for AMD, not something NV has done in recent years. Made worse by the fact that it's at a time when AMD keeps losing MS and relevance in dGPUs...they really didn't need this.
 
Nvidia Power connector, bended chips where cooler is not sitting correctly on
memory chips, the list of Nvidia failures is long…
 
Sure nVidia have/had problems too, but, when you're AMD and you're chassing nVidia for years now, you need "perfection" as much as possible to close the gap.

Having said that, waiting for the benchs, but the prices alone can help AMD right now given nVidia strategy....
 
Sure nVidia have/had problems too, but, when you're AMD and you're chassing nVidia for years now, you need "perfection" as much as possible to close the gap.

Having said that, waiting for the benchs, but the prices alone can help AMD right now given nVidia strategy....

Fo sho.
Speaking purely for myself (and yeah I am not The Market) if AMD can come out with a remotely sensible 7800XT I will very likely buy it. My last half-dozen GPUs have been NVIDIA but they are taking the piss now on prices and they can piss off.
 
That being said, Navi31 seemingly being so busted that the performance is nowhere near where the competitor is and where it was projected to be is a huge failure for AMD, not something NV has done in recent years. Made worse by the fact that it's at a time when AMD keeps losing MS and relevance in dGPUs...they really didn't need this.
AMD losing MS where? Regardless, the performance was aimed higher, but it would have never reached 4090 anyway. It's around 4080/16 speeds (excluding RT) at cheaper price, the chip is bigger when counting all the dies, but chiplets add some overhead and they're using (relatively) cheap older "7nm" node (N7x/N6x) on MCDs, GCD is same "5nm" node (N5x/N4x) but it's possible 4N is customized from denser N4x rather than N5x used by AMD. Not quite sure how that can be seen as a huge failure?
 
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