Thankfully we can limit power draw in BIOS/UEFI now. I run my 5950X at 95W and it feels just as fast, a few seconds here and there aren't that consequential.
It's dependent on the specifc card and drivers. An old radeon 270 I had would do that and heat up the whole room. Anything more modern should be smarter about it.
That's because the Radeon 270 is a winter card.
does amd even sell cards? prolly never seen one in the wild, only AIBs.
I think it's only in the last couple of years(5000 and 6000 series) that they have stopped doing that.
All models of RDNA2 cards were available direct from AMD. Was actually a big deal because for awhile the $500 6700xt was the best deal around and actually available to buy once a week with no markup.
I always considered Zotac to be in the middle of the pack for Nvidia AIB cards but never had one of theirs die on me. Unless you are worried about getting a brick you can probably get the same card for $260~ off Ebay used. I know some people have a tendency to go "haha miner's used goods" for that kind of thing, but I've set friends up with used cards off there ranging from a 1070ti-2080 and never had issues with them either.
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It's going to be an interesting launch, first on-package multi-chip designs may cause headaches in some games. And the leaks don't add up at all, especially the 3+ GHz average clock speeds.
I'm curious to see what the RAM options are on these things. I'm on 8GB right now and frankly it feels wrong to upgrade to anything that is less than 12GB and frankly 16GB feels like the minimum. RAM is expensive though because it's always the fastest available so I don't know what cards will be in budget.
maybe that's why I've never seen them over in yuropoor (granted I wasn't looking that hard, usually buy sapphire anyway).
would be hilarious if amd goes full fuck it mode and dumps them for 1/3 less, although I assume their costs don't allow that and they want to get the best margin they can while nvidia is crawling up their own ass.
Their costs almost certainly let them undercut Nvidia quite a lot if they want. Chiplet designs push yields stratospheric. Guarantee AMD could undercut Nvidia to a whopping degree and still make a profit.
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Yeah, that's the big downside. 20GB VRAM (if true) isn't going to show up in most benchmarks any time soon. But it WOULD make a very nice difference for certain ML or rendering options. Except Nvidia is dominant in those markets.AMD Radeon RX 7900XT rumored to feature 20GB GDDR6 memory - VideoCardz.com
AMD RX 7900XT rumored to feature 4GB more memory than RX 6900XT According to Wccftech sources, Radeon RX 7900XT RDNA3 GPU is said to feature 20GB of VRAM. This is reportedly not the flagship model, though. AMD Radeon RX 7900 series are to be announced in less than 2 weeks, which means that...
If this rumor is true, they could try to bludgeon the RTX 4080 16 GB with a similar priced 7900 XT with 20 GB VRAM, then use the 7950 XT with 24 GB against the 4090. There is also the rumor that they can either do 96 or 192 MB of Infinity Cache, the second configuration having the dies stacked on top of each other.
Too bad they are shit for Null's new Machine Learning Age.
What's even more absurd is the abundance of chips that didn't have a heat spreader like now, they didn't use ceramic packaging either, instead they used plastic packaging with no heatsink or fan. Nintendo 64, Playstation 1, Voodoo 1 and 2 and so on where all plastic which is a fantastic thermal conductor as well know.
Move over Fermi. We got a new space heater in town.
