IMHO that is one of the best articles ever written in the space, and reference it regularly. THAT is why I enjoy the hobby. THAT RIGHT THERE. Take notice, AMD. That is what your customers want.
Because we're nerds. We're the people that supported ATi/AMD in the face of ever-increasing nVIDIA marketing and Intel's dominance in the space since forever. Because their choices were logical.
We bought the mobile T-birds and the T-breds instead of Intel and put them in a desktop socket.
We bought the A64 multi-core Opterons instead of Intel. We did pin-mods for cores, ran high-voltage Winbond BH-5 and DFI toaster boxes instead of Sammy TCCD on Intel.
I agree we lost too many of them and haven't entirely been replaced. It is what it is but he sort of spawned, for a lack of better word, a few like Ian and Wendell who do well with the technical stuff.
Weird you mention it, I was thinking of BH-5 the other day for some reason. I had a set of CH-5 I killed trying to reach (voltage, torture) general BH-5 speeds on my t-bred B. The replacement BH-5 was 2-2-2-4 stuff so I suppose it was worth it and those B rev chips, if you got the good ones, were a blast to overclock. And yes, the mobile ones were the good ones. And then came the core unlocking days. I think i had a x3>x4 unlocked full tilt and the funny thing is the fused off core was better than the rest.
To the topic at hand, I'm actually surprised AMD decided to abandon the x80 class this round. It would've been pretty easy for them to reach performance parity in that class with a slightly bigger die on a wider bus, somewhat akin to a monolithic 7900xtx on rdna4 I suppose. It would even be a better match than last round because RT performance differential would be less. 9070XT looks like a 7800XT on RDNA4 with the relatively bigger die taken up by more dark silicon, RT and RDNA4 enhancements. And it's wild that's only what it took for them to straddle the 70/80 class, supposedly. Milk the last arch, AMD, before you, erm, abandon the market?
Anything over $549 and RDNA is RDOA.
No bud. Since we exactly know the performance, you should know it's anything over $300 (HD 4870) and not only RDNA but AMD is DOA. Too many abbreviations are hurting my brain. Nvidia is better.
