Wednesday, December 4th 2024
AMD Announces Press Conference at CES 2025
AMD today announced that it will be hosting a press conference as a part of the official CES 2025 Media Days. The press conference will take place on Monday, Jan. 6 at 11 a.m. PST at the Mandalay Bay. AMD senior vice president and general manager of the Computing and Graphics Group Jack Huynh, along with other AMD executives will be joined by partners and customers to discuss how AMD is expanding its leadership across PCs and gaming, and highlight the breadth of the company's high-performance computing and AI product portfolio. The keynote will be available to livestream on the AMD YouTube Channel, with replay available after the conclusion of the livestream event.
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And will they be commenting on why they are almost pulling out of GPU sector, abandoning high end and trailing behind Nvidia more and more with each generation?
AMD Confirms Retreat from the Enthusiast GPU Segment, to Focus on Gaining Market-Share
The results of previous decisions are known, only a small discrete GPU market share, and even that thin sliver is threatened by Intel. I can't imagine abandoning even the pursuit of higher end enthusiast market will have different conclusion.
Also, Nvidia could technically match and beat any AMD's pricing war, since they have all the revenue they want from AI server market, and Gaming is just an afterthought now - a sector with fake inflated revenue increase, so to mask that all income is again coming from single hype, as it happened during latest cryptomadness (and where court judged that they are free to fake their financial reports as they see fit).
No you don't have to use "fake frames" we are entitiled and people think they have to run games at the "ultra" preset at 120-240FPS at 1440p/4K resolutions, it's entitlement, rather than turn it down to high settings which has almost 0 visual/fidelity difference for 30%+- more FPS, it's why morons are willing to fork out $1200+ on a GPU to run unoptimised UE5 engine games to make them selves feel better and say "hey, look at me, look at what my gamingRGBFTW super expensive gaming PC can do compared to yours, rather than taking 5 minutes out of their lives to olptimise the damn settings to math their hardware
"Ryzen CPU's outselling Intel by double digits in most popular online retailers and have been doing for the last 2 years or so" is just a very specific market - DIY PC builders that follow technology and are educated enough. But most PCs sold are still pre built, even if you look at gaming PCs - most people don't assemble their own computers. And there you still have strong Intel presence, due to various factors, not at least anti competitive illegal practices Intel has been doing for decades, was found guilty and simply not paid the fine.
And then there's notebooks, where AMD had great troubles convincing makers to offer computers with their CPUs, there is no DIY market in that. For instance both CPU and GPU for Playstation 5 are technically AMD, but that doesn't mean AMD sold 65 million custom 8 core Zen 2 CPUs and 65 million custom RDNA 2 GPUs for Playstation 5 - they developed them in collaboration and to Sony specification, and Sony bought the licence and had them made. This is of course great difference, revenue from handhelds and consoles is reported in AMD financial reports, and is relatively small.
RDNA is used in most of gaming consoles these days, mainly Xboxes and Playstations. Actually, in handheld sector AMD is now dominant, too.
As for trailing Nvidia, while it may be true, it all depends on how you look at it. E.g. RX 7900 XTX has 15% less perf. than RTX 4090 but costs 40% less.
Nvidia has edge in RTX and DLSS (although I personally condemn image distortion and fake frames stuff), AMD has edge in pure rasterization. Who is trailing the other depends on what a user prefers.
Just for clarification, Nvidia holds maybe more than 50% TSMC's capacity in current and next process node allocation, next are Apple, Intel, Qualcomm, ... Even if AMD wanted to make more chips, there is no capacity (TSMC's capacity is fully booked until 2027), Nvidia focuses on so called AI and money is already paid in advance. TSMC surely loves Nvidia's money, AMD surely can't pay that much money and not in advance. So, producing more smaller chips than fewer bigger chips enables AMD to get more out of TSMC's capacity and selling them at reasonable margin might be a good idea and might yield better overall earnings. Sometimes less is more.
In my Region the cheapest 4090 (in the last year) was 1719,99 €
the cheapest 7900 xtx was 879,00 €
that's basically double the price & in my book a easy choice for the 7900 xtx.
BUT:
there's also the 4080S which in current games has a very similar performance for 999,00 €
So... i have to ask myself is saving 130 € worth it.
Personally would still go for the 7900 xtx, reason is curiosity with amd cards (never had one)
But most customers won't think that way...
I think currently the pain points for AMD GPUs are:
The MSRP at the beginning is most of the time to high -> Bad Reviews
The perception of the Gpu driver support/stability (that's a hard one to improve)
RT as a whole is rather weak on the AMD side (personally don't really care)
FSR is most of the time quite inconsistent, some of the games look quite similar to Dlss. In a lot of them it looks worse.
Quite a lot of people don't even consider AMD as an option
let me have my dreams lads, let me have them. :roll:
I only update when they address serious bug that concerns me or because of new game. I only updated twice in my life because of bugs.
Any Linux user will tell you to choose AMD over Nvidia because of support and drivers. What I personally hated about Nvidia drivers since GTX 600 series was forced telemetry. I hate espionage, this is what Microsoft does regularly. Telemetry should be disabled by default and turned on only with explicit approval of user. Me neither. Sure it's nice, it improves realism but the performance cost is immense. Please don't tell me to turn upscaling on. I don't enable feature that improves image and than turn on DLSS that cripples image to make framerate smooth. It's contraproductive. I rather choose to not use RT at all. I play only on native resolution, not to be distorted or changed artificially. In other words, I play as game was meant by devs to be played. God, I sound as Nvidia. That has historical reasons. I don't want to discuss this here but you can read other threads and make your own opinion.
I have friends with a 7900 xtx and 7800 xts with no complaints till this day. (because of drivers or something similar) But that doesn't invalidate the experience of others.
Also heard nvidia drivers for linux are quite good (even if they aren't open source)
Still same opinion as you on telemetry. Similar to me, i personally try to play on native resolution (if upscaling looks bad) but sometimes i can't tell the difference.
I wouldn’t blame them if they abandoned the gamers market and concentrate in servers and consoles since as you can see, the second that their gpus are mentioned, the negative comments start flowing, with the usual “lack of this or lack of that” to the nonsense of bad drivers.
Market says $390-440 is the correct range for current gen x800 XT series and -$10 on previous gen.
So naturally I would expect $400-450 to be the hot sale point for 8800 XT, no idea if we'll see it right away.
If there's minimal uplift like between 6800 XT and 7800 XT then I hope the features are much better.
Great coolers like the Hellhound, better VRM, improvements to h264/hevc/av1 (dual) encodes, Win10 driver compatibility, maybe more dual HDMI.
We are all expecting fair raster improvements but if 6000->7000 is any example, that compass is still spinning wildly.
There really isn't a whole lot I look for in a new video card so I'm not holding out for any miracles.
BUT...If the 8800XT can deliver a solid 1440p120 experience in DX12 games that would be HUGE.
A quick reminder of where things stand:
So....Yeah. Not that hopeful. Either performance isn't great and we get a repackaged 7900XT or the card is marginally better with price coming unglued from reality.
Which way Western rabbit? :wtf:
So far it has been a really good tell for most cards on the list. Still, there are some weird outliers just like there are weird users. The only card I've seen go below that is the XFX Speedster MERC310 around $530. The rest bottomed out around $625 so that might be it.
The thumbnail don't look great but the content is good and well explained by a game dev
I've always subscribed to the notion that what the developer wants is for everyone to get the best possible experience playing their game, there's no one size fits all config or way to run it 'as the devs meant for it to be played' - they give you as many options as possible so that from steam decks to halo part builds we can all enjoy it the best we can.