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Supposedly Nvidia is delaying Blackwell gaming as well. It would seem dedicated gaming GPUs have gone all the way to the bottom of the priority list for both AMD and Nvidia. I understand that there's an AI goldrush on, that throwing all supply at this is guaranteed money. Yes even for AMD, who's supposed lead for MI300 is "Just" 25+ weeks, less than half of Nvidia's!
But going by seemingly reliable leaks, RDNA4 would be functionally ready to launch in August. Patches in place, sample boards shipped out to board partners, etc. But if Strix Point, made on the same process node, is popular enough that RDNA4 just gets booted down to no priority and "launches" months later that's an interesting indication of where the dedicated GPU market is going.
Until the chip market crashes and supply vastly outstrips demand, I do wonder how much of a future dedicated GPUs have. There's already a lot of active complaints that the GTX1060/Rx580 of last generation, in terms of dedicated GPU to console performance per $, just hasn't appeared. If every company with demand issues has better things to do with their supply regardless that means it's not going to appear anytime soon, especially as "Moore's Law" (already technically dead for a decade or something) slows to a crawl.