TechTubers raise hopes about AMD Radeon 6900XT performance

[HEXUS]

The upcoming RNDA 2 flagship will compete directly with the RTX 3090, they assert.

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[[GSV]Trig]

It's going to be about price and actual availability, and if this is the top card, then as nice as its going to be for the small percentage that can afford it, the lower level cards are where the meat is going to be, so whatever AMD bring out that's going to be similar to the 3060/3070, that's where I'm going to be looking...

[Corky34]

AMD have a history of disappointments on the GPU front so I'll not be getting my hopes up, would be nice to be proved wrong but IMO this hype train just ain't worth boarding.

[[GSV]Trig]

The majority of my GPU's have been AMD over the years, I was hoping for a decent second hand card but I don't think the second hand market has adjusted yet, probably waiting for the AMD stuff to drop, once it does I'm hoping there will be a reset, if not then I'll buy a new card once the mid-range cards are here and launch issues have been sorted...

Pretty much anything is going to best my RX580 8Gb, but I'm also going to upgrade my monitor so will need something a bit pokier..

[Zhaoman]

Nothing new that we don't already know from previous leaks. We know pretty much everything now except for actual performance so we just have to wait. I'm looking for the most performance under 250W so if rumours are true then this is looking good vs 3070.

[Gentle Viking]

My Navi 10 feel like,,,,,,,,, midget.

I would not say AMD have a history of disappointments on the GPU front, but i will say that in the high end performance segment they have not been able to compete for too long.
And for a AMD investor, that might indeed have been a disappointment, CUZ clearly AMD have not been firing on all 8 in this segment.

But i dont think in that period AMD have been leading people to believe that their new GFX card was a NVIDIA killer, but a lot of people have hoped that and so maybe created a hype.

As a result of that just like Intel on the CPU front, people have been "scammed", but okay maybe not as much on GPU's but still.

[ohmaheid]

It has to be remembered that Coreteks said that Nvidia 3080/3090 would have a co-processor on them too.
These sites are not much more than click-bait rumour mills.

Let's wait for the release and proper benchmarks peeps.

[LSG501]

From my perspective AMD can have the best performing card in the world (not on about gaming either) but if they don't have application support like cuda does it's a no go for me.... one of the programs I use basically dropped support for AMD (or more accurately opencl) a short while ago.

I do hope AMD have a strong card because it may push the prices down on nvidia cards, although in reality I'm fully expecting price to performance parity and continued high prices.

[chj]

I do hope AMD have a strong card because it may push the prices down on nvidia cards, although in reality I'm fully expecting price to performance parity and continued high prices.

I do hear this sentiment a fair bit, people wanting a competitive card to drive Nvidia cards down which I guess speaks to how important application support like CUDA is.

To be honest this launch feels different from previous in that AMD aren't drumming up as much hype which, after how Vega and HBM2 was supposedly going to change the world, I think is a good thing.

[Tunnah]

I'd take these with a pinch of salt but it's such a perfect explanation is to why nvidia went so hard with the 3080.

It is oversized, overclocked, and underpriced. The 3080 would've been a 300w, tops, part, and cost £1200. But they knew AMD were coming out with something big.

[Gentle Viking]

In a perfect NVIDIA world the 3070 would be a 800 USD card.

[QuorTek]

Seem like next time I am building a PC, it is gonna be all AMD inside... am a bit uh nostalgic about that....

[DevDrake]

In a perfect NVIDIA world the 3070 would be a 800USD card.

more like 1800USD if you talk about perfection, 800USD is(or was) just "optimistic achievable retail price" for their PR department

Anyway, the rumor is surprising. All 80 CUs available (i doubt) paired with GDDR6 (not GDDR6x).
I would expect we get 72-78 CUs at the top.

Price will tell

[Sumanji]

It has to be remembered that Coreteks said that Nvidia 3080/3090 would have a co-processor on them too.
These sites are not much more than click-bait rumour mills.

Let's wait for the release and proper benchmarks peeps.

Nail. Hammer. Head.

IMHO "Infinity Cache" belongs in the same trash pile as "Traversal Coprocessor".

(Will humbly eat my words if the truth comes out on Oct 28 )

[Tabbykatze]

Credit where credit is due, AMD just filed a trademark for Infinity Cache.

https://trademarks.justia.com/902/22...-90222772.html

[3dcandy]

I think Infinity Cache is going to be a big thing. But of course I might be wrong (fairly often am if you ask the missus)