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lus wake up the radio 970 announcement just dropped come on that's right AMD

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finally announced those gpus that were first spotted in full retail packaging

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weeks ago and I can't believe I'm saying this but it's even more exciting than I

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dared to hope for now we had some idea what was coming of course rdna 3.5

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showed a solid uplift over rdna 3 in handhelds we got to look at some version

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of the ray tracing upgrades in the PlayStation 5 Pro and obviously AI was

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going to be a big Focus but now it's all

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coming together in a single package literally they're back to using a

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monolithic die I'm talking allnew rdna 4

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architecture an enhanced media engine third gen raid tracing accelerators

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second gen AI accelerators powering FSR 4 upscaling and 16 gigs of vram at

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$599 and the best part if they've been shipping these things for

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months maybe stock perhaps I'm almost

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afraid to jins it but for the first time and as long as I can remember AMD might

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not have screwed up a GPU launch like

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I'm going to screw up this

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uh sco to our

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Spooner next too their allnew Aurora Pro

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feels like we've been waiting forever for rdna 4 but good things come to those

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who wait right and personally I'm glad that AMD let their Engineers cook we're

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going to dive a lot deeper when our review goes live next week but for now

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AMD is promising some big uplifts in performance per clock claiming that each

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CU or compute unit should be about 40%

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faster than rdna 3 for those of you who are keeping score at home 40% is a lot

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and it supposedly comes courtesy of improved scaler units and dynamic

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register allocation they've also got an enhanced memory subsystem which will

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supposedly help with the compute portions of Ray tracing workloads now

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it's too early to say if AMD has fully closed the Gap with NVIDIA when it comes

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to Ray tracing but it seems like they're at least promising a major improvement

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over their last generation accelerators on top of the memory stuff they've added

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a second Ray intersection engine to allegedly double throughput for Ray box

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and Ray triangle testing there's a dedicated Hardware block for Ray

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transformation and a new hardware accelerator feature that they call

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oriented bounding boxes that's a lot of jargon but what it pretty much boils

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down to is this thing should trace your rays a lot better and I'm pretty excited

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about it even if the real world result doesn't quite match up with NVIDIA's

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latest I'm also excited about AMD's new AI accelerators

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okay I'm not that excited about it but someone is maybe even you with only 16

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gigs of vram a piece the two cards that am revealed today won't be able to

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handle larger models but the claimed performance improvements for the models

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that they can handle are pretty big thanks to more math pipelines and

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expanding the capabilities of their AI accelerators AMD is claiming a two times

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performance uplift in fp16 and four times in int 8 compared to rdna 3 as for

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how that translates to real world results they showed some slides later

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comparing the 970 XT to the 7900 GRE and

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it does look pretty impressive and who knows maybe you'll actually use the AI

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features that AMD is coming out with like the optional image inspector which

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is an algorithm that monitors game frames and looks for image corruption

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during gameplay and the AMD

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chat oh good it's a local large language

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model that can supposedly help you configure your GPU and tune it neat like

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how you can keep your desk setup neat with Magnetic Cable Management from LTT

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store.com speaking of things looking nice the image quality improvements to

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the media engine look great if their

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slides are to be believed you could actually stream to Twitch with one of

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these cards without it looking like hot garbage let's just hope that along with

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the better encoding that they finally fixed that weird 1082 P Hardware

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encoding bug um regardless of that they've also promised 8K 80fps encode

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and decode support for hvc av1 and h264

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accelerated post-processing effects and no limit on the number of sessions or

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encoding streams Team Green meanwhile locks this behind their professional

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card pay wall so uh good guy AMD but

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also darn it AMD let's take a look at

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the hardware the 9070 and the 9070 XT

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are two surprisingly different cards

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they both appear to use the same die they're both equipped with 16 gigs of

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memory on a 256-bit bus but the XT is

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clocked way higher at darn near 3 GHz

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and pulls a whopping extra 84 Watts on

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top of that it has eight more compute units and RT accelerators and 16 more AI

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accelerators for an extra 392 tops all

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of which would be totally fine if the 9070 wasn't priced a mere $50 lower AMD

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you're doing the thing again the 7900 XT got terrible reviews at launch because

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it was only $100 less than the XTX and

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it was way slower months later you discounted it when it wasn't selling and

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it picked up but the reviews were already out of the gate there's still

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time to fix this though $4.99 do it do

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it anywh who both cards regardless are quite Future Ready feature-wise with PCI

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Express Gen 5 interfaces HDMI 2.1b and

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DisplayPort 2.1a although it is worth noting that not all DP 2.1a ports are

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made equal and amds support only 54 GB

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per second compared to the 80 gbit pers second on NVIDIA's 50 Series in daily

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use this is unlikely to matter much since these cards aren't really expected

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to be as powerful as NVIDIA's top gpus and with display stream compression you

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should still be able to run a 4K 240 HZ monitor but it is worth noting but what

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should we expect performance-wise well

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thanks to FSR 4 maybe a lot as per usual

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you're going to have to wait for the reviews to drop from ourselves and

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others next week before you pull the trigger if their image comparisons are

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real and I don't have reason yet to believe they're not real the image

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quality has improved so much that maybe you won't mind bumping down from quality

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mode to Performance AMD like NVIDIA is

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leaning on AI and neural rendering for this and they're calling it Fidelity F

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super resolution for ML powered upscaling this was teased almost a year

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ago and hey it looks like it's finally here the only issue is the lack of early

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support they've got a decent list of 30 plus games at launch with over 75 more

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on the way for 2025 and I would expect that to grow but don't buy promises buy

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what you can use today because there's no telling if your favorite game will or

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won't end up being supported a feature that does support a much more sizable

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1,000 plus games list is hyper RX sort

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of it's a one-click solution that's been around for a while now and enables

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features like anti-ag boost and FSR with

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fluid motion frames 2.1 joining that roster and more coming soon in 2025

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however since not all of those games benefit from every single one of those

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features your performance improvements will vary on a game to game basis and

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not everyone is a fan of frame generation regardless of whether those

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frames are green fake frames or red fake frames speaking of Team Green Let's talk

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about availability cuz after all who gives a single flying about anything

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that AMD said today if the cards can't be bought I mean I was super excited

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about the 50 Series until they were proven to be made out of unobtanium so

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you'll have to forgive me for being a little jaded but I mean these cards have

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been in the hands of retailers for months we saw samples at CES in early January

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with our own eyes I've got one in my hand now so when AMD says wide

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availability March 6 2025 there's a

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small small Ray of Hope inside me that

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hasn't quite withered and died yet and wants so desperately to believe them so

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For the Love of All that is good please Andy please don't this up if this is

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another paper launch it'll just be my 13th reason why the GPU mark market

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right now is terrible and Gamers should Despair and I don't want another reason

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like Intel's b580 came out and booed my

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spirits it's a great budget card it's just that it's hard to find at or near

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MSRP and then NVIDIA's 50 Series has been trickling out into the market as if

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each one of them is artisanally whittel out of silicon by like one guy gamers

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want reasonably price cards they want them now and AMD guys you've got a real

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opportunity to gain actual market share here as long as your cards aren't buggy

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and don't melt but hey good news AMD

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claims that this launch will be the best driver support they've ever had and

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considering how much they've been delayed apparently I actually kind of

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believe that they've given the software team some extra time to cook and they

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even say they've also improved their processes new AI optimized internal

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testing increased number of hardware test configurations in the lab and a new

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bug report tool that's loaded directly into the driver will hopefully lead to a

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smoother launch experience but will it be a little smoother or a lot to

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smoother we can't know until thousands of credit cards have been swiped and

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thousands of gpus have played thousands of games and also output thousands of LT

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