AMD Navi Discussion

What resolution you gaming at? Definitely tempted to get one myself, but I'd have to do a full new build to justify it.

Yeah probably great for high refresh 1440p ultra wide, any weird issues you've noticed yet or smooth sailing? Have you tried ray tracing?

That's helpful for me as I've an 850w too, was it awkward setting up the triple 8 pin power cables? What CPU you running? Sorry for all the questions, researching before I look at building.

It would be pretty obvious, RDNA 3 is substantially different in terms of its architecture.

I disagree. The RX 7600 is just a rebadged RX 6650 XT.

From what I saw so far maybe a 5% performance improvement for raster gaming, more for RT, AV1 encoding, seemingly unused for now AI cores, slightly faster memory, slightly lower power usage.

I'm not pretending it's exciting but at $270 it's at least cheaper than (launch MSRPs) and significantly faster than it's nominal predecessor (6600 non-xt) and doesn't have the likes of the 6500xt stupidity of removing the media block or anything else that jumps out to me as tragic. I say nominal predecessor as I think nvidia have made it extremely clear with the 40 series that connecting cards by names is just playing into the hands of the marketing departments. What makes me laugh there is they didn't rename the chips though so if you look at those names instead it shows up the game being played (e.g. GA-107 3050 -> AD-107 4060).

Really though I was just saying that it's not an actual rebadge which I know Nvidia have shadily done in the past and want to say AMD/ATI have also.

It's a poorly priced card that should fall in price relatively quickly. If they'd even been slightly more aggressive with the pricing and launched at $249, it would have gotten much better press. The 6600/6700 series is just a much better buy until they run out of stock.

This really feels like a skip generation. The 4090 and 7900 XTX were ok, but everything else announced so far feels pointless while RX 6000 series GPU's are still widely available.

How would they compare to a 3070?

Turns out that most AMD GPUs can drastically reduce their idle power use by turning VRR (FreeSync) on at all times.

Basket case products.

Moores law is dead had a recent video where his contacts are of the opinion that AMD aren't really pushed about getting more market share because they're not actually ready to deal with the pressure/expectations. The more I think about it, it does makes sense. The gamers nexus tour of the company showed that compared to intel they are still effectively a tiny skunkworks type operation with limited staff and resources. Issues like this show that engineering wise, radeon is close but no cigar territory and that changing that is still going to take time. They may never get there. Sucks for gamers but ultimately nvidia will always make more money from professional/ai products which they've got a software monopoly on, and intel have shuttered their graphics division, so nothing is going to change in the next few years.