AMD’s new RDNA GPU Architecture has Been Exclusively Designed for Gamers

[Vayra86]

Well the 290X was decent for its era.

Oh yeah, that GPU that was only really happy on the top of the line air cooler, what was it, Sapphire's Tri-X?

It was the first sign GCN was running out of its comfort zone, if you ask me. Performance was definitely there, but beyond that, it showed GCN was due for a major revision (that never came - Tonga didn't deliver).

I'm literally looking at techpowerup database and writing their numbers. the RX 570 is pretty much 50% faster than R7 370.


You can't really compare "core" counts, because these are just word games.

Read between the lines

If perf per shader isn't enough to open your eyes, take a long look at die size and bus width between similar performance AMD/Nvidia cards. The trend is clear enough, you have got to be utterly blind not to see it, and all of this is well known, beaten to death, and buried deep in the cemetery somewhere. Stop digging, all you'll find is more painful truth. Or you can try to rephrase your apparent lack of knowledge into questions out of interest, then we can have a real conversation instead of that endless red/green kindergarten nonsense.

 

[MrPerforations]

funny, compare Nvidia vs AMD on single gpu's, I always count 2 vs 1.
your right about price/performance and power usage, but like you use it for two hours after work, and your playing a ps4/xbox game.
I look at the price to performance that way.

 

[Steevo]

Too many kids here are too young to remember the horror of 2900XT

I was an owner..... I would say proud, but I think it died taking a PSU and motherboard with it.

AMD is still too poor to afford two different dies, so it's still going to be compute heavy, but if they ever learned anything it will have a great video hardware setup with it's own clock domain, but that's probably asking too much. Honestly though if they boosted utilization rates on caches by 25% from what they learned with zen2 and leveraged a bit more frequency from the 7nm node they would be fine.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Fiji/Vega have been divorced from the mainstream gaming cards for a long time now but AMD didn't have the resources to reimagine the mainstream chip for gaming which it is predominantly used for. Navi sounds like they finally did it because that's what Sony ordered. Arcturus is likely going to be compute heavy but adequate at gaming.

Arcturus will be designed first and foremost for AI, compute, and virtualization customers not unlike Volta. Whatever comes after Acturus may be 100% RDNA instead of the Navi Hybrid. At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if Acturus and the compute biased products are and remain GCN.

TL;DR: GCN for compute; RDNA for gaming.