lost_soul wrote:We won't know for sure until AMD releases the first RDNA2 cards, but every rumor I have seen to date is that AMD won't even try to compete on performance with Ampere. RDNA2 is also going to trail Ampere by 4 - 6 months. Where RDNA2 might be useful is in the hardware acceleration for codecs as Ampere really isn't doing any thing amazing on that front. If RDNA2 had AV1 encode it would certainly get my attention but I don't even expect AV1 decode. AMD is now saying that RDNA3 is where the big performance gains will be made but they have been selling the wait for the next release story for as long as they have been around. Go back a year and RDNA2 was going to be the savior. Go back another year and RDNA was going to be.
As I run on Linux NVidia is a real problem for me but so is a crappy graphics card. My RX580 just doesn't cut it any more now that I have moved to the BM6k and shoot RAW. So time is moving like a snail for me while I wait for the details to come out.
RDNA2 and Zen 3 are launching this year, its been repeated over and over. RDNA2 before consoles come.
out. RDNA2 in consoles is 2080Super performance (as quoted by devs) so what makes you think they won't compete?
Also this whole selling the wait is nonsense. Wait for what? They didn't have a competitor for 1080ti / 2080ti in Games....who cares about that? In the segments where they had cards they competed well.
RX580 (an almost 4year old cards is still relevant today) was faster and with more ram than the competitor 1060 6GB (not including that abomination 1060 3gb that released first)
RX570 still has no competition
Vega64 is faster than 1080 in games now. In compute there's no match.
Vega56 is faster than the 1070 competition.
Radeon VII trades blows in games with 2080 and smokes a 2080ti in compute and has more ram and insane bandwidth. Still not matched in bandwidth. Not even by the 3090.
5700XT is faster than 2070
5600XT is faster than 2060...
Sounds like competition on performance to me...
All they need is to release more SKUs.