At this point, any
affordable mass produced video card with performance of RX7800XT/7900GRE and superior efficiency, is tremendously apreciated. I dare to say, it is way, way more appreciated, by much wider target audience (maybe hundreds of thousands, if not millions of consumers), than e.g. something like a 4080/7900XTX for a one and a half grand (real price). And RT performance for this GPU class is just pointless anyway. So, all it takes is to deliver the cards to the end user. This is just sad, that instead of real products, people being fed the endless rumors.
But what is concerning for me, in this "Navi 48 XTX", is 48, which means some lower end SKU, and XTX, which usually means the most overclocked, and the most power hungly GPU, available. But this is just my take.
Misjudgement, or lack of better RT hardware available? Nvidia jumped into the game a lot sooner than AMD, so I'm not blaming AMD for not having much to compete with for two generations. RDNA 2's RT unit is basically an "oh shit, we better do something fast" solution, and the one in RDNA 3 is basically a copy-paste. I don't think AMD would have done the same thing twice if they had anything else at the time. It's probably not because they didn't think better RT was necessary. They just didn't have anything else.
Yes, nVidia jumped HW RT first. However AMD's software RT was
available for ages. Yet, barely anyone was interested in RT. And once JHH said that it's developers "holy grail", everyone have imediately become an aposltle of Geforce RTX.
None of the three companies said anything about next gen GPUs. No Battlemage, no RDNA4 and no Blackwell information was shared.
Exactly. All they want is money, to feed their greedy investors. The consumer graphics cards, are just a placeholder, and maintain the pretense of "being interested" in what is a really abandoned sector. This is depressing. And they all want people to jump onto their streaming subscription platforms, and want it to become prevailing way of gaming ASAP.
RX 7000 is a failure no matter how you look at it.
1. Chiplet design was abandoned.
2. Performance targets were not met.
3. Sales are extremely low.
4. Prices are very high.
5. Ray-tracing poor performance.
6. FSR a joke, extremely low quality image.
7. Drivers not released regularly, instead bugs stay for quarters without anyone paying attention about fixing them.
8. Maybe lost the interest in the GPU department, and potentially leaving the market segment?
A failure... at some point.
1. Chiplets are going strong in their Ml Instinct. Look at their success. Don't see anyone complaining there.
2. Performance is not enough, obviously. But which where the targets is to be known. The 4090 was the crypto/AI bait, and designed for them in the first place.
3. Sales are bad, due to underwhelming rewievs, and a bad price. So is the nVidia's price formation and proposal, to say the least. The reason why nVidia outsold it's Ada cards, is purely due to public mindshare, and sometimes due to task specific requirements. I hardly see everybody, who have bought the nVidia cards needs it for some huge compute loads, or is going to be a streamer. Not to mention, the pricing required to step into uncanny valley, for barely visible performance difference outside 4090.
However, yes, nVidia checks more tick boxes. Most of them are uncompelling though, to be honest.
4. Price is indeed atrocious. This is probably the most crucial factor, that have lead to the poor sales. Overal these two factors are extremely interrelated and crucial, and the flop in each will lead to the bad results. nVidia will still outsell AMD 9:1, until AMD will have the enough allocation for chips. Still the grasp on their prices is too hard, and they are not going to lower it any time soom. Sadly.
AMD makes ton of profits on the Enterprise. They could easilly make a positive influxe, by shifting $50 down the entire stack, making it more favorable in the eyes of consumers, which being gouged from left and right.
5. Ray-traycing poor performance. LOL. Have you seen the green team results, anytime, recently? The entire point of DLSS and fake frames, is to substitute the dull RTRT performance. Turn it off, and you barely see any difference to Ampere in raw RT performance.
It was garbage since the very first day, nVidia decided to roll out the GPU with "limited" RT capabilities. But truth is, it's about several more generations, until the RT capabilities will actually reach the minimal
acceptable level of
real time ray tracing. Until then
any current RT solution, is a complete joke,
regardless of
brand name. There's the reason, why cinema and CGI use entire farms, to render a particular amount of
scripted scenes.
6. FSR is upscaler. All upcallers stretch the low resolution to big screen. It doesn't take an science degree to undertand, that this is completely flawed technology. No matter what seasoning one adds, the taste if still remain garbage. I don't see what miracle people want to see from this inferior, compared to the native big resolution technology. It's even possible to run low resolution on big screen natively, the upscallers are supposed to just
improve the already inferior image.
The only reason why nVidia solution is much better, is the result of huge AI training, and huge amount of compute resources put into. There's no magic. Without it, it would be as ugly as FSR. But at least FSR and XeSS are open, and do not require someone's permission to use it.
7. Most of the reviews seems show, that the AMD software is much less of an issue, lately. And considering, that reddit is mostly "calm" about this, can be a "indication" of that. The drivers seems to be much better than before, but might not be flawwless, yet. But so is nVidia, which has some issues. The only issue with AMD software and drivers, is yet big media playback power consumption.
8. This is actually completely true. All three nVidia, AMD and Intel, are not interested in consumer 'gamer' entertaining multipurpose video cards. What they are interested are insane, never possible before profit margins. And right now the source of it is AI. The greed consumed them all.
Just sole silence from AMD about their consumer GPU status, is just the another indication that they treat Radeon as the least of their priorities. But again, this is related to all of the three of them.
But at least they don't give much hope. They'd better do their job silently, and make RDNA5 a real milestone, rather than make Vega-like advertisements, to just "sit in a puddle" with underperforming product later. The hype train can get off rails, and trap into collision.
