Never mind, even if you could afford it and actually buy it, there's no power supply on this planet that can feed this beast.
Based on what evidence exactly? I wouldn't expect a single PCB RDNA3 twin chip design with a CU count like the RX 6900 XT to be worse on power draw than two discrete RNDA2 RX 6900 XT's. There should be power optimized refinements from RDNA2 to RNDA3 and just because it's using a pair of chips with the same CU doesn't mean on a single PCB they will be clocked the same which even if they were and AMD's optimized various aspects of it to increase power and efficiency it'll still draw less power. Even if AMD optimized nothing at all a single board design is going to be more efficient in practice. The more challenging aspect would be cooling it, but they'll probably make it water cooled or at least a 3-slot cooler rather than a 2-slot design. I don't know if they'd go with a 4-slot cooler or not they certainly could, but if they don't increase clock speeds while making it more power efficient for RDNA3 they might not need to. Just put a vapor chamber on both sides of the PCB with 4 U-shaped heat pipes connected spaced out across the PCB length and two blower fans on each side of the PCB on the rear exhausting all the heat. That would exhaust plenty of heat all outside of the case. The heat-pipes themselves could be filled with a bit of liquid metal if they aren't already done that way these days.
5nm could easily make that happen and consume close to 350W at over 2GHz. Especially if combined with HBM(3?) for low latency which might be needed more when using chiplets.
Exactly and with that many CU's you'd want to make use of the latest HBM chips regardless. The cost of HBM is more justified in a design with that much compute power that can make heavy use of tons of bandwidth. Plus combined with infinity cache and with BAR SIZE it'll make it more worth while and easier to reduce the memory bus width itself to subsidize some of the cost especially so in a twin chip design with more leeway and wiggle room. The faster chips get the more wiggle room is available to reduce bus width a bit w/o really having a major performance impact in all scenario's. GPU's don't just push raw bandwidth at all times by nature a lot of data is shuffled about in chunk sizes or loaded first taking a moment to do so then pooled from pretty much indefinitely or until shuffled in and out as needed.
"We heard you liked stock shortages, so we're going to take the constrained supply you're waiting on and use it to make half as many graphics cards"
I hear you, but they are a business and they can make significantly more money selling cards aimed more towards the scientific, healthcare, 3D artists, CGI industry, and so on than selling them to the game community. It's just the way it is we paved the way for all that across the years, but we're lowest on the priority list in a lot of ways at the same time. It doesn't help that they sell cards like the RX 6900 XT in the fist place to high end enthusiast gamer's rather than splitting it in two and selling two cards instead which would benefit the industry as a whole more and keep things more fair at the same time to gamer's that can't pay to win in the same way.
Always have back up parts, perferably evne a complete back up pc so you can chuck your main storage drive in there if something is wrong with it.
That's my current I believe I unintentionally installed bitlocker on it and don't know the password for it so I booted up to a orange corrupted looking screen. I tried to install windows 10 from media creation on it no luck. I tried windows repair no luck. I still haven't sorted thru if I can salvage the drive yet or not. Tried using it as a portable USB drive and didn't work at first then partially manged to work enough to copy data off it, but can't write to it to erase or format it. I tried to install windows 10 on another drive with it in the system and that wouldn't even work. The portable drive I turned on after the initial OS was booted from off a HDD that I installed it on after removing the SSD. Horrible pita experience. I thought it was the GPU or display initially though so I'm actually relieved it's not either of those particularly the GPU that wouldn't be cheap to replace at this point time. Windows 10 is unbelievably slow and terrible on a HDD for the record as well holy f*ck it's a pure garbage experience. It's pretty tempting to install Linux frankly.
That’s because CP uses some really heavy post processing and has a very soft image quality anyway.
The cloudy piss soft image quality effect. I generally just don't like soft unless it's lighting and even then I prefer to keep it minimal to avoid it be exaggerated to heavily.
DLSS is objectively great.
Objectively I'd much rather have the RAW GPU resources to devout to rasterization and reshade shader effects myself and other aspects like more TMU's. You can do upscale and downscale of individual post process effects in reshade rather trivially and a enormous degree of custom configuration of shaders. A lot can be tuned from like 5FPS impact downward to 1FPS and not look drastically different while saving a lot of performance or even objectively looking better. Too much over exaggeration of post process can actually have a rather nasty negative impact on image quality rather than improve it including DLSS. The performance impact is overblown if you turn off AA you gain a lot of performance if you upscale from a lower resolution you save a lot of performance overhead if you downsample at a lower resolution you save a lot of overhead as well. It's a matter of balance really and frankly like a ASIC is fixed function optimized performance post process is best when done similarly, but more time consuming. AI will get better at inference and can close that gap as it advances and in many cases surpass human inaccuracies even, but it's far from perfect today.
