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Zen 5 is gonna be somehow shown on Computex in June. This might include the mighty AI APU™ - Strix. Real-world benchmarks (actual laptops) would still be months away. RTG powerpoint slides have zero cred. As for the ATi/AMD failed gens: * R600 was a late, broken, hot, very large, and super...

Sadly, after Renoir AMD started treating their up-to-date-tech APUs as premium products. Cezeanne, Rembrandt, Phoenix have been more and more targeted at the "premium" segment. Zen 5-based Strix should bring a bigger GPU variant SKU, although given the pricing history it is gonna be very costly.

Even if RT is not prevalent, as you say, the RT is still felt like an important "tick on the box". Just like HW T&L used to be. The drivers (firmware?) experience is still pretty strange. Black screens, fully clocked VRAM with multi-monitors, power issues with video acceleration, VR being...

Well, this has been discussed many times. AMD's business strategy has been like: create a minimal GPU lineup piloting a hitech aspect as a reusable IP minimize other R&D cost to good-enough levels minimize SW dev/support cost slap a price tag just a bit lower than nV's care a lot about margins...

IIRC, beefy scalar units. Cancelling a gen would usually leave room for a deep rethinking of the plans and redo of the org structure. This happened in 2012 after the Bulldozer fiasco - they skipped 2-3 gens almost completely while making room for the Zen project. Additionally, the current...

Yes, with the official reveal of Navi 32 specifications the "clockspeeds bad => Navi 32 fixed" excuses went finally void. The story of RDNA3 is worthy an analysis. The hype surrounding the 5nm frequency jump with "4GHz are coming, bro", "so huge it requires chiplets" all over the place. AMD...

Nope The hopium of saving Radeon's positioning by - respinning the Navi 31, Navi 32 clock being not-affected-by-the-bug, RDNA4 fixing everything - is gone.

Is there a market for such super-expensive APU? I mean the economy sux.

Sure, he uses a consumer-grade RDNA3 card but yeah, that guy sums it pretty well. AMD/ATi has never had a software-first mindset. It is not a software company. The horrible software culture is being mentioned several times: * Being open source all the way on the outside, but relying on tons of...

If only AMD had any relevancy in the laptop market.

RDNA 4 is scheduled for 2024. This means the expected Navi 31 lifespan is ~1.5 years. So a "x50" upgrade is to be expected in a similar way the Navi 21 got one.

When Turing released Reddit/HW forums were full of users who were not satisfied with the perf/$ vs the older gen. Many of them even claimed going Radeon instead of Turing. As always, those revolting users were just a vocal minority and many of them still bought nVidia.

As long as it sells there is no need to drop the price. The fact is, there is apparently a large number of customers who value their PC gaming experience pretty high. This means these ppl casually spend $1k on a current gen high-end GPU and that's it. They are not bothered with perf/$...

nV got a very efficient architecture manufactured on a subpar Samsung process with the 3000-series. With the 4000-series they jumped to the cutting-edge TSMC process which is even better than AMD's. AMD also switched to a better node but apparently pulled a Vega.

Do you remember Vega 64? It was years of teasing. It featured NCU aka Next gen CU, high IPC (wow 2x), high frequency, brand new DSBR rendering tech, Next Generation Geometry pipeline, HBM2 epic bandwidth, and a full node transition. In the end, it was 6% faster than Fiji at the same frequency...