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I wonder why folks with the XT are not reporting the same issues.
Nothing. The inability to hit clocks is claimed to be due bug but remains to be confirmed later if/when they do A1 for 7950 refresh.So what, exactly, is broken in the released RNDA3 hardware, apart from the inability to hit the forecasted clocks?
Nothing. The inability to hit clocks is claimed to be due bug but remains to be confirmed later if/when they do A1 for 7950 refresh.
I doubt we will ever find out if anything was actually broken. Maybe during a future architecture release AMD will shed some light.So what, exactly, is broken in the released RNDA3 hardware, apart from the inability to hit the forecasted clocks?
Rdna2 wasnt really… ok at raster but that was it. Zen3 was quite nice.
So what, exactly, is broken in the released RNDA3 hardware, apart from the inability to hit the forecasted clocks?
Upbeat about what? This thing is a huge letdown. AMD has completely failed to capitalize on the 4080's absurd pricing. And the timing of this failure is the worst I can recall. At least R600 didn't come at a time when NVIDIA was raising prices by 70% (3080 to 4080).This really seems to have upset Hardware Unboxed. For a while now they seemed to have been saying RT is not important, FSR is as good as DLSS etc and they have just gone nuclear as of this review and are using things that they previously deemed not important to sink the boot in. Like in that tweet in a reply he said nvidia didn't really lie cause frame generation and when asked about aib cards brushed it off with i've got other things to work on before I bother with them. They are one of the places I expected to be a bit more upbeat about the 7900xtx.
Which should maybe point us all to the actual reason behind current day pricing instead of just bashing Nvidia or AMD or anyone who doesn't actually produce the goods in question? Eh, here's hoping.Upbeat about what? This thing is a huge letdown. AMD has completely failed to capitalize on the 4080's absurd pricing. And the timing of this failure is the worst I can recall. At least R600 didn't come at a time when NVIDIA was raising prices by 70% (3080 to 4080).
This really seems to have upset Hardware Unboxed. For a while now they seemed to have been saying RT is not important, FSR is as good as DLSS etc and they have just gone nuclear as of this review and are using things that they previously deemed not important to sink the boot in. Like in that tweet in a reply he said nvidia didn't really lie cause frame generation and when asked about aib cards brushed it off with i've got other things to work on before I bother with them. They are one of the places I expected to be a bit more upbeat about the 7900xtx.
RDNA2 was much closer to the RTX3000 in raster than anyone expected them to get.
The 6900 was a curve ball no one expected.
What exactly are we looking at in terms of BOM for the 4080 vs the 3080? TSMC 5nm is far more expensive than Samsung 8nm, and GA102 is far larger than AD103; 3080 has bigger memory bus but less memory etc., so I'm not sure how this shakes out. 4080 probably does cost more to make, but 70% seems likeWhich should maybe point us all to the actual reason behind current day pricing instead of just bashing Nvidia or AMD or anyone who doesn't actually produce the goods in question? Eh, here's hoping.
Rough rule of thumb is cost-per-transistor has been flat or going up slightly (note: NOT cost-per-mm^2, that's gone up massively), so you can get a rough ballpark estimate of the relative cost of each die. It's all very fuzzy though because of vendor negotiations, discounts, long-term relationships etc.What exactly are we looking at in terms of BOM for the 4080 vs the 3080? TSMC 5nm is far more expensive than Samsung 8nm, and GA102 is far larger than AD103; 3080 has bigger memory bus but less memory etc., so I'm not sure how this shakes out. 4080 probably does cost more to make, but 70% seems like
This makes me wonder why CPU prices are not skyrocketing. Possible reasons are: Intel has no advanced manufacturing and AMD is using the premium process sparingly with chiplets. Also I guess CPU performance is not really increasing at a comparable rate.Rough rule of thumb is cost-per-transistor has been flat or going up slightly (note: NOT cost-per-mm^2, that's gone up massively), so you can get a rough ballpark estimate of the relative cost of each die. It's all very fuzzy though because of vendor negotiations, discounts, long-term relationships etc.
Also, NV wouldn't necessarily increase the sticker price of each sku in exact proportion to the cost of that die. They clearly rebalanced the entire stack, shifting margins away from the 90 to the 80. So at least some part of that 70% increase is paying for the 4090. This sort of shuffling is all par for the course.
Remember that this is a company that took a major haircut on the lingering GA102 inventory due to a demand drop. So this stupid narrative that suggests that NV is "expecting gamers will pay pandemic/crypto prices" doesn't make any sense. They obviously know their immediate demand profile. Prices have likely been set out of necessity and with careful planning, not some cartoon sales chief going "muhahaha". Obviously some bets have been made, and the market has the final say on whether those bets pan out.