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lot and it supposedly comes courtesy of improved scaler units and dynamic register allocation they've also got an enhanced memory subsystem which will supposedly help with the compute portions of Ray tracing workloads now it's too early to say if AMD has fully closed the Gap with NVIDIA when it comes to Ray tracing but it seems like they're at least promising a major improvement over their last generation accelerators on top of the memory stuff they've added a second Ray intersection engine to allegedly double throughput for Ray box and Ray triangle testing there's a dedicated Hardware block for Ray transformation and a new hardware accelerator feature that they call oriented bounding boxes that's a lot of jargon but what it pretty much boils down to is this thing should trace your rays a lot better and I'm pretty excited about it even if the real world result doesn't quite match up with NVIDIA's latest I'm also excited about AMD's new AI accelerators okay I'm not that excited about it but someone is maybe even you with only 16 gigs of vram a piece the two cards that am revealed today won't be able to handle larger models but the claimed performance improvements for the models that they can handle are pretty big thanks to more math pipelines and expanding the capabilities of their AI accelerators AMD is claiming a two times performance uplift in fp16 and four times in int 8 compared to rdna 3 as for how that translates to real world results they showed some slides later comparing the 970 XT to the 7900 GRE and it does look pretty impressive and who knows maybe you'll actually use the AI features that AMD is coming out with like the optional image inspector which is an algorithm that monitors game frames and looks for image corruption during gameplay and the AMD chat oh good it's a local large language model that can supposedly help you configure your GPU and tune it neat like how you can keep your desk setup neat with Magnetic Cable Management from LTT Store.com speaking of things looking nice the image quality improvements to the media engine look great if their slides are to be believed you could actually stream to Twitch with one of these cards without it looking like hot garbage let's just hope that along with the better encoding that they finally fixed that weird 1082 P Hardware encoding bug um regardless of that they've also promised 8K 80fps encode and decode support for hvc av1 and h264 accelerated post-processing effects and no limit on the number of sessions or encoding streams Team Green meanwhile locks this behind their professional card pay wall so uh good guy AMD but also darn it AMD let's take a look at the hardware the 9070 and the 9070 XT are two surprisingly different cards they both appear to use the same die they're both equipped with 16 gigs of memory on a 256-bit bus but the XT is clocked way higher at darn near 3 GHz and pulls a whopping extra 84 Watts on top of that it has eight more compute units and RT accelerators and 16 more AI accelerators for an extra 392 tops all of which would be totally fine if the 9070 wasn't priced a mere $50 lower AMD you're doing the thing again the 7900 XT got terrible reviews at launch because it was only $100 less than the XTX and it was way slower months later you discounted it when it wasn't selling and it picked up but the reviews were already out of the gate there's still time to fix this though $4.99 do it do it anywh who both cards regardless are quite Future Ready feature-wise with PCI Express Gen 5 interfaces HDMI 2.1b and DisplayPort 2.1a although it is worth noting that not all DP 2.1a ports are made equal and amds support only 54 GB per second compared to the 80 gbit pers second on NVIDIA's 50 Series in daily use this is unlikely to matter much since these cards aren't really expected to be as powerful as NVIDIA's top gpus and with display stream compression you should still be able to run a 4K 240 HZ monitor but it is worth noting but what should we expect performance-wise well thanks to FSR 4 maybe a lot as per usual you're going to have to wait for the reviews to drop from ourselves and others next week before you pull the trigger if their image comparisons are real and I don't have reason yet to believe they're not real the image quality has improved so much that maybe you won't mind bumping down from quality mode to Performance AMD like NVIDIA is leaning on AI and neural rendering for this and they're calling it Fidelity F super resolution for ML powered upscaling this was teased almost a year ago and hey it looks like it's finally here the only issue is the lack of early support they've got a decent list of 30 plus games at launch with over 75 more on the way for 2025 and I would expect that to grow but don't buy promises buy what you can use today because there's no telling if your favorite game will or won't end up being supported a feature that does support a much more sizable 1,000 plus games list is hyper RX sort of it's a one-click solution that's been around for a while now and enables features like anti-ag boost and FSR with fluid motion frames 2.1 joining that roster and more coming soon in 2025 however since not all of those games benefit from every single one of those features your performance improvements will vary on a game to game basis and not everyone is a fan of frame generation regardless of whether those frames are green fake frames or red fake frames speaking of Team Green Let's talk about availability cuz after all who gives a single flying about anything that AMD said today if the cards can't be bought I mean I was super excited about the 50 Series until they were proven to be made out of unobtanium so you'll have to forgive me for being a little jaded but I mean these cards have been in the hands of retailers for months we saw samples at CES in early January with our own eyes I've got one in my hand now so when AMD says wide availability March 6 2025 there's a small small Ray of Hope inside me that hasn't quite withered and died yet and wants so desperately to believe them so For the Love of All that is good please Andy please don't this up if this is another paper launch it'll just be my 13th reason why the GPU mark market right now is terrible and Gamers should Despair and I don't want another reason like Intel's b580 came out and booed my spirits it's a great budget card it's just that it's hard to find at or near MSRP and then NVIDIA's 50 Series has been trickling out into the market as if each one of them is artisanally whittel out of silicon by like one guy gamers want reasonably price cards they want them now and AMD guys you've got a real opportunity to gain actual market share here as long as your cards aren't buggy and don't melt but hey good news AMD claims that this launch will be the best driver support they've ever had and considering how much they've been delayed apparently I actually kind of believe that they've given the software team some extra 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