Thursday, January 23rd 2025
AMD is Taking Time with Radeon RX 9000 to Optimize Software and FSR 4
When AMD announced its upcoming Radeon RX 9000 series of GPUs based on RDNA 4 IP, we expected the general availability to follow soon after the CES announcement. However, it turns out that AMD has scheduled its Radeon RX 9000 series availability for March, as the company is allegedly optimizing the software stack and its FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4) for a butter smooth user experience. In a response on X to Hardware Unboxed, AMD's David McAfee shared, "I really appreciate the excitement for RDNA 4. We are focused on ensuring we deliver a great set of products with Radeon 9000 series. We are taking a little extra time to optimize the software stack for maximum performance and enable more FSR 4 titles. We also have a wide range of partners launching Radeon 9000 series cards, and while some have started building initial inventory at retailers, you should expect many more partner cards available at launch."
AMD is taking its RDNA 4 launch more cautiously than before, as it now faces a significant problem with NVIDIA and its waste portfolio of software optimization and AI-enhanced visualization tools. The FSR 4 introduces a new machine learning (ML) based upscaling component to handle Super Resolution. This will be paired with Frame Generation and an updated Anti-Lag 2 to make up the FSR 4 feature set. Optimizing this is the number one priority, and AMD plans to get more games on FSR 4 so gamers experience out-of-the-box support.
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David McAfee
AMD is taking its RDNA 4 launch more cautiously than before, as it now faces a significant problem with NVIDIA and its waste portfolio of software optimization and AI-enhanced visualization tools. The FSR 4 introduces a new machine learning (ML) based upscaling component to handle Super Resolution. This will be paired with Frame Generation and an updated Anti-Lag 2 to make up the FSR 4 feature set. Optimizing this is the number one priority, and AMD plans to get more games on FSR 4 so gamers experience out-of-the-box support.
256 Comments on AMD is Taking Time with Radeon RX 9000 to Optimize Software and FSR 4
The "reality" is AMD has not had a feature complete competitor to Nvidia since 2014. Polaris and rDNA1 ignored huge portions of the market while RX 6000s sucked at RT and the 7000s played pricing shenanigans to promote their higher end hardware. In the professional space, they have nothing remotely close to CUDA, or nvidia's AI tools, and that has long hurt them. Tinybuild showed how much harder it was to get AMD's help vs Nvidias. So, yeah, their sales suck. That's what happens when you are not competitive.A simple Google search would reveal that was a lie. Plenty of forum threads and Reddit posts bellyaching about no FSR, and how crazy it is, blah blah blah.
Meaning, the calculations done on the developers end, baked into the game and then ship it?
Granted, not exactly the same, but you catch my drift.
But yes, I think that better ways are definitely needed, because brute force never seems to work in the end.
This whole back and forth between AMD/Nvidia is getting really old now.
It is just hardware. Use what you like. Be helpful, not opinionated. If you cant help, then I am sure you can figure out what to do next.
Nobody here is asking for advice/assistance - this is literally an opinion thread by design. Fanboyism and conflicts of opinion are - sadly - human nature.
The back and forth is getting very old I agree, but you can thank the tech press for pushing this sort of panic and FUD with AMD articles while at the same time pushing tons of hype and praise for Nvidia, and the users get upset when something doesn't launch when they think it needs to.
I see it from both sides several times in many threads, there is no objectively correct side (and there probably never will be)
But to continue on that claim, I would love to hear what you think "Nvidia pioneered".what is the difference? either way if they are looking at the market and performance of the competition and basing their price on that...then that is competing on price, that is all it is.
i challenge anyone here to run any game ,,at 720p at 120htz and only 30 fps max and see if you can tell the difference between this and max fps.
If you csn you have a bad display and you should use a qled screen.
As for the thread: The story is that the 9070xt is 50%+ faster than the 7800xt (bother raster and RT combined), and the original price was under $600, they were hoping the 5070 was $650 or more. Nvidia caught wind of the performance and price of the 9070xt and preemptively lowered the price to $550. (So if anybody is actually "scared" it's Nvidia in this situation). This preemptive price cut threw AMD off guard, hence the delay in launching because they are negating with AIB's and retailers to get the price down. I think they are aiming for $529 XT and $479 non XT.