Where do I start?
Tim or whoever writes for him is a master at using words and sentences to nudge people on their desired paths, which of course is, to push consumers towards nvidia.
Every possible plus from AMD is dismissed, especially if it paints nvidia on a bad light.
Every claim made by AMD were doubted, even though AMD has proven over and over that they dont lie or over promise on their presentations, unlike intel and nvidia.
Only referred the AMD gpus by model, yet used every possible adjective (when convenient of course) to mention nvidia (gpu chip name, gpu codename, gpu brand and model, etc).
He threw a couple of bones here and there, but in the end, nvidia is king and its perfect and this announcement is another failure on amd part.
Anyways, my take.
RT is simply stupid, period.
Requires too much resources for a damned shadow or reflection in a puddle.
I personally believe that we are at least 2 more gens away from decent hardware and same for games, which are currently less than 50 in existance.
Talking about games, why so much effort is placed in hyping the very few existent RT games when we have thousands of other pc games that many of us havent played yet?
I know, it paints nvidia in a superior spot and as another failure for AMD.
The estimated power consumption is great, compared to the performance increase and the less heat that will produce.
Display port 2.1 support is good to have (but of course dismissed), that usb-c port is intriguing.
AV1 support, plus other little things are great.
And of course, the prices and names.
The naming is stupid, these are simply 7800 and 7900 gpus, no need for the moronic use of XT and XTX.
Price would’ve been great if they were 150 bucks cheaper but since media, writers and Tubers are ok with 1700 and 2000 bucks gpus, then we shouldn’t complain, I guess.
Well, hopefully Steves review will be fair and unbiased as always and we can then see how they really perform.
*Edited a bit.
