No effing way they're selling that for this few bucks.
Ok, now I'm getting worried.
The good thing about competition was more affordable cards throughout the whole range. If we're going into >$2000 territory, and most of all pushing everything else up as a result, then I think we're going backwards.
Besides, as mentioned by
@techuse , I don't think AMD and Nvidia can afford to keep pumping up the "dollar-per-performance" ratio without starting to alienate their customers and driving them into consoles. And they're already coming from an extended period of time where they can't put their cards in the hands of gamers.
Plus, the PC needs a "killer app" to justify all that GPU power over what the 200W consoles can do. Nothing looks like Ratchet&Clank yet.
So the question left is how legit is this information. All awesome and true or in the gddr6x doesn't exist side of the pool?
Bondrewd has been pretty spot-on so far.
How legit were the RDNA2 rumors? Infinity cache was the real deal but everything else didn’t really live up to the hype.
All the rumors about ridiculous clocks, IF, significantly better perf-per-watt and lower RT performance than Nvidia and impressive rasterization performance, lived up to the hype.
What's missing is a supposedly impressive perf-per-watt on the mobile parts, but those are yet to come out (but still coming out before Q1 2021 ends according to AMD).
Many reviewers promptly changed the narrative to focus on DLSS2 and RT performance, but RDNA2 is indeed impressive compared to RDNA1. Of course, that also makes RDNA1 pretty tame though.
Combined with increased competition thanks to Intel coming soon, I don't see how the fears that RDNA3 is going to be totally ridiculous in price can be realized.
We pretty much know what Intel is bringing later this year with DG2. Their highest-end desktop part has 512EU / 4096 ALUs at ~2GHz, so ~16TFLOPs of Xe architecture and 256bit GDDR6.
Unless they have a pretty big surprise like Infinity Cache or similar, the memory bandwidth alone should tell us it's not able to match Navi 21 or GP102, much less a Navi 31 behemoth that is more than doubling Navi 21's performance.
I too had hoped Intel could throw a wrench into the whole GPU market by being able to make as many GPUs as they wanted on their fabs, and use aggressive pricing to gain marketshare.
However, DG2 is also being made at TSMC, so they'll be as limited as everyone else. They'll probably sell all the GPUs they can make (unless they really suck), but it won't make any difference.
New It's interesting to see, how fast "consoles need upscaling to offer good performace, PC doesn't need such crap, PC rulezzz!" changed to "PC offers better upscaling than consoles, PC rulezzz!" ;-)
B-but Cyberpunk with maximum RTX!
