AMD confirms RDNA 4 to launch in early 2025 with improved ray tracing: the "strongest PC portfolio we've had"

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BINGO! Give this man a prize!

You just went into far more detail into explaining what I mentioned before in that AMD, at least in the eyes of the majority of the market, can't do anything right no matter what they try to do. So, AMD has thrown in the towel, and I don't blame them. Why put the R&D into making a product that the market will always see an inferior even if it isn't actually inferior and won't buy it.

We've done this to ourselves and nVidia is laughing their asses off all the way to the bank. We have no one to blame but ourselves.

By the way, I'm sitting here with an all AMD system. 7700X and an RX 7900 GRE and buying the GRE was the best thing I ever did. I chose to not feed the beast that is nVidia.

I've also considered the what if's of AMD's situation and as concerns 'doing better' and remain convinced that even if they matched or beat Nvidia in the leads they do hold as well as continue form in the more traditional metrics as they have, while holding a similar pricing strategy... Well, the reception will still be the same... I daresay even if they managed to hold that position for three gens, that majority opinion will still stick against them.

However, with my hope AMD succeed in their current goals and decide to come back into full contention with Nvidia with RDNA5 we may yet see such come about.

As far as my mention of that vast difference of opinion goes, I should add that more often than not I've seen the same ppl that praise Nvidia and hate on AMD hold a far more positive view on Intel's latest foray into the GPU realm. Which is odd, as I've noted before Intel's last best matched around a 3070's perf, was near two gens ago, had a host of issues to work through and no real or even rumoured news of anything upcoming compared to Nvidia and AMD. Taken as a whole, not bad given they have to make their return somehow but still not up to the AMD standard or range thus far nm still well behind at this point. Fwiw I don't think anything Intel release this new gen will match anything more than Nvidia's mid range, an achievement in itself but which will probably put it in more direct contest with AMD... But if nothing else it proves AMD are simply not liked at all.

Funny enough, at around the same time as I commented the above last night I was reading through another Techspot article:

https://www.techspot.com/article/29...tracing_worth_the_fps_hit&utm_term=2024-11-01

Which I found very interesting and proves the actual difference Nvidia:AMD is narrower than many consider especially given, again, that price gap.

Anyway, as said I'll be hanging onto that 7900XTX a good while yet. It's got some legs!
Also the 5800X, though even at 3440x1440/4K it's getting closer to an upgrade (9800X3D, bar any misfortune, what else?) and maybe trying for OLED at the former res. We may dream at least...

All the best and happy gaming!