AMD's David McAfee Celebrates 25th Anniversary of Radeon Graphics Technology

Dr. Dro · 2025-03-11T12:20:17+0000

alwayssts said:
Yeah, if I would have had one of those I would've kept that too....I had a 1080/2080Ti those eras.

Fascinating designs, Fiji and Vega. Really, many of them are. Even Navi 3 is, imho.

That doesn't mean every single one was the all-out-best product in the market at the time, and sometimes they were good options simply due to (comparative) pricing, but one cannot say they weren't innovative.

Certainly forward-thinking wrt relative bandwidth concerns and saving space on the die (from adding too much cache), etc. It's decisions like this, even if not the *most* performative, that show their strengths.

It keeps costs down while using whatever is available to them to get the performance that is required into a product. You may say Navi 3 didn't have the greatest RT, or ML wasn't ready, or didn't hit high clocks.

That is all fair. But they still made good GPUs that accomplished their goal for relative raster markets of 1080p, 1440p, and 4k at good pricing. That is due to those decisions (and perhaps sometimes concessions).

Concessions I would argue were fair (lower prices bc not having features that many haven't really needed or weren't using up until this point).

I personally think they nailed it with 9070 XT. Even more-so if prices stay in-check and/or eventually decline to the 7800xt/gre market. That's a great product for that budget tier (right now). RT/FSR4 included.

I had them all, the Fury X, the Frontier and the VII... I am also very fond of the Fury X... it was treated so bad, though. Genuinely one of the most interesting pieces of silicon ever developed

AusWolf · 2025-03-11T12:35:26+0000

Dr. Dro said:
I had them all, the Fury X, the Frontier and the VII... I am also very fond of the Fury X... it was treated so bad, though. Genuinely one of the most interesting pieces of silicon ever developed

I would have loved to have a Fury back in those days, but a VII? Man, you must have some balls to buy one.

hsew · 2025-03-11T13:32:56+0000

vnl7 said:
Ruby back please!

'Member when attractive women (rendered or real) were used in marketing and trade shows?
Yeah, I 'member.

*sighs*

Hakker · 2025-03-11T13:33:08+0000

Denver said:
How about a special anniversary edition 9070XT with 32Gb ?

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AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Specs | TechPowerUp GPU Database

I would be happier with more versions for $600 and maybe $700 for "OC" versions. Not this 30-40% price hike on day 1

Chrispy_ · 2025-03-11T14:47:12+0000

freeagent said:
Running AMD hardware should make you pretty safe, maybe they are saying that for the 14niners running at polar bear frightening speeds.

Yeah, if 400W CPUs exist, AMD are covering their bases with a 900W recommendation.

freeagent · 2025-03-11T16:40:14+0000

Chrispy_ said:
Yeah, if 400W CPUs exist, AMD are covering their bases with a 900W recommendation.

250 for the cpu, 100 for the mobo and ram then a few more for nvme.. getting pretty close.

My 9900X can do 250 no problem so…

QuietBob · 2025-03-11T18:58:48+0000

vnl7 said:
Ruby back please!

alwayssts said:
I think Ruby embodied Radeon so perfectly. I miss it soooo much.

Here you go

Double Cross was the first Ruby tech demo, launched with the X800 series in 2004:

Dangerous curves was second, to promote the X850 models in 2005:

Also in 2005, The Assassin was used to promote the X1000 series:

And last we saw of Ruby was Whiteout, which coincided with the HD 2000 series in 2007:

Incredibly, all of these run perfectly fine in 4K on a modern system!
And another outstanding fact, the Whiteout demo uses a form of ray tracing. Yep, RT in real-time graphics before Nvidia:

mechtech · 2025-03-11T21:23:33+0000

Ady Pop said:
The latest AMD 25.3.1 drivers have big problems for the RX 7900XT. Typical AMD. Unfortunately, we can't rely on AMD. Desktop artifacts and flickering screens and fans that seem to turn on randomly. Incredible. After spending a lot of money on the video card. Only problems.

Strange how different cards behave. I have not had any issues with mine in the past 3 years *knock on wood*

AusWolf · 2025-03-11T22:22:57+0000

freeagent said:
250 for the cpu, 100 for the mobo and ram then a few more for nvme.. getting pretty close.

My 9900X can do 250 no problem so…

You also have to account for cheap black market PSUs too, I guess.

Come on guys, when did PSU recommendations make any sense?

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AMD's David McAfee Celebrates 25th Anniversary of Radeon Graphics Technology

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