Will be waiting to see how much power consumption is improved over predecessor.
Ahh, the time when power consumption matters (when it can be used against AMD) but doesnt matter otherwise, as told many times in here. See all the excuses of intel cpu owners and 3090 and 4090 gpus on Ngreedia side on the subject.
Amyways…wondering if they plan to follow through with the lower price as it has been rumored before, like the rumored 500 bucks unit with better performance than the current 7900xtx.
I've been thinking about what might be going on with all the next gen discrete GPU releases. We have been on a GPU release schedule of about two years for a while now. Here are the dates of the last releases:
A770 - Oct 2022
4090 - Oct 2022
7900XTX - Dec 2022
So there is still time for the next gen to come out this year. Rumors swirling around the tech media might be due to filling that 24/7 news cycle. The sites are probably getting bored and jumping at every bit of information. However, if the rumors are true and the next gens are delayed, all three families most likely are delayed for very different reasons:
Blackwell - Nvidia has all the resources in the world to release whatever they want whenever they want regardless of AI/Data center prioritization rumors. Therefore, the delay is most likely external. I think Nvidia needs TSMC 3 nm in order to produce Blackwell. I don't think 4 nm will yield the number of units and power consumption levels that will allow them to go above the 4090. Blackwell for the client might be delayed until 2025H2 since 3NP and 3NX are not ready until later this year or the middle of next depending on which node version is needed. With rumors suggesting that neither Intel or AMD will reach or exceed the 4090, there is just no rush for Nvidia to push out high end Blackwell.
Battlemage - Intel still has resources but they are dwindling fast. It is still possible that they may discontinue their entire GPU division for both data center and client. Rumors indicate that the GPU is still coming and Intel has a variety of choices when it comes to process node. But their financial situation is dire and there has been very little information regarding their next gen data center GPU which would get higher priority than the client.
RDNA4 - AMD has the least resources of all three companies so they probably do need to prioritize product releases based on the most important markets. As some have pointed out, AMD is focusing on the data center so any delays to RDNA4 would most likely be caused by data center GPU product schedules. The process node is not a problem as AMD might be leaving the top end GPU market for a while and they have yet to utilize 4 nm.
Sometimes we gamers ignore the fact that we are not the biggest money makers of these companies. I dont like it but understand why a company with still limited budget will dedicate more of that money to enterprise components, like zen 5.
Problem with RX 7000 is the power consumption in media playback scenarios.
Lord, this again. It’s tiresome. I’m pretty sure that you dont care about how much power your intel/ngreedia combo is using when gaming.
Adding the speculation of higher RT performance, this needs to be priced at $399 and a possible 192bit cheaper model with, for example, 44-48 CUs at $299 to really make some noise.
If AMD comes out with a 56 CUs model at $499 or more, it will mean that they are not ready yet to offer anything competitive to Nvidia and only wish to maintain a position in the discrete market to keep the Radeon brand alive.
I love the idea of prices coming down, but given that everything has simply become more expensive, we shouldn’t expect the return to those prices of old. Hell, TSMC alone has raised the price per wafer a couple of times just in the last couple of years.
Again, dont get me wrong, i dont like the msrp of a 7900xtx anymore than the already overpriced 4090, but doubt we will see a negative adjustment in a meaningful way (lower prices)
