lus wake up the radio 970 announcement just dropped come on that's right AMD
finally announced those gpus that were first spotted in full retail packaging
weeks ago and I can't believe I'm saying this but it's even more exciting than I
dared to hope for now we had some idea what was coming of course rdna 3.5
showed a solid uplift over rdna 3 in handhelds we got to look at some version
of the ray tracing upgrades in the PlayStation 5 Pro and obviously AI was
going to be a big Focus but now it's all
coming together in a single package literally they're back to using a
monolithic die I'm talking allnew rdna 4
architecture an enhanced media engine third gen raid tracing accelerators
second gen AI accelerators powering FSR 4 upscaling and 16 gigs of vram at
$599 and the best part if they've been shipping these things for
months maybe stock perhaps I'm almost
afraid to jins it but for the first time and as long as I can remember AMD might
not have screwed up a GPU launch like
I'm going to screw up this
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feels like we've been waiting forever for rdna 4 but good things come to those
who wait right and personally I'm glad that AMD let their Engineers cook we're
going to dive a lot deeper when our review goes live next week but for now
AMD is promising some big uplifts in performance per clock claiming that each
CU or compute unit should be about 40%
faster than rdna 3 for those of you who are keeping score at home 40% is a 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 time to cook and they
even say they've also improved their processes new AI optimized internal
testing increased number of hardware test configurations in the lab and a new
bug report tool that's loaded directly into the driver will hopefully lead to a
smoother launch experience but will it be a little smoother or a lot to
smoother we can't know until thousands of credit cards have been swiped and
thousands of gpus have played thousands of games and also output thousands of LT
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