Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Why I’m excited for RDNA 3”.
Uh, we also need to talk about rdna3. I mean, I guess, there’s not really, there’s not really that much to say that we didn’t say in the video yesterday: it’s a return to competition. I never thought I’d be so excited to see a thousand dollar and a 900 GPU. And yet here I am not that, because I’m excited about a 900 GPU, but because I’m excited about what it indicates about the pricing of the rest of the stack that we we might be going back to.
You know real world land instead of the fantasy land. That nvidia’s CEO lives in where people like real people can spend sixteen hundred dollars on a GPU. It’S just ridiculous um for those of you who missed our video yesterday AMD was very vague about the performance of the upcoming 7900 XTX.
That’S the thousand dollar variant, but they did give us relative performance compared to the 6950 XT at 4K. We were able to get some information about the test benches that they were running and extrapolate Performance Based on uh drag racing, a 6950 XT and an RTX 490, and then applying amd’s cited performance uplift to the 6950xt. To give some idea of what a 40 90 versus 7900 XTX shootout is going to look like as anticipated, if you kind of have been paying attention to the industry for a while, Nvidia uh pushed the 4090 hard enough to maintain the performance crown and no harder Than that they’re they’re water, they’re, they’re thermal and their power consumption targets were clearly designed to make sure that they maintained the upper hand so that they could maintain their price premium um, but didn’t go any any harder at out of fear, maybe of um harming the Reliability of the product, it’s too early to say how accurate our estimates are given the up to 1.7 times faster, might be when you’re directly looking at a wall that actually means yeah or into the sky box or whatever right. It’S also possible that AMD futs to the numbers, but if they didn’t it looks like one heck of a fast GPU and it looks like the RTX 4080 16 gig based on nvidia’s, published numbers might get absolutely destroyed by the 7900 XTX while costing 200 more. It’S pretty dumb what has become a selling point for a GPU under a thousand dollars supports the latest version of DisplayPort. Doesn’T risk burning your house down, won’t require a power supply upgrade and should physically fit in your computer case, like really that’s the bar AMD had to meet in order to impress me they met it, though Maybe yeah we’ll see uh Anthony.
It’S exciting, though I I’m. I’M happy about this. I I agree with you.
I am more happy about this for not this card, but the other cards in the stack yeah um. I still think in in current years spending a thousand dollars on a GPU is like crazy, um but yeah it. Hopefully, it means very good things for the cheaper cards in this deck uh. Our discussion question here is: do you think this will even pressure Nvidia or are they so entrenched in Normie Gamer’s Minds that this won’t even be a problem for them? I think that’s a very real possibility. I think that Nvidia will just keep competing with themselves, Nvidia only races against one company, NVIDIA uh.
That’S why I mean we saw this messaging change man ages ago. I think it was back when maybe 960 or 1060 launched, where they stopped, comparing in their reviewers guides to to other companies cards and just started, comparing to their own card from three years ago, showing what an upgrade this is for. Geforce Gamers, I was like um. Okay, but it’s working for them, I mean that’s absolutely what Apple does for the most part.
Actually, they provided a little more comparative performance data in the last couple of years. I think that’s as fudged as it might have been um. I guess that’s an improvement.
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