News AMD CEO confirms the RX 9070 series will arrive in early March — Promises 4K mainstream gaming

[spongiemaster]

Poor but open source version

Yup. Open source, where AMD's software goes to die because no one is interested in finishing coding the software AMD was too lazy or incompetent to polish themselves.

 

[nogaard777]

You mean just like last time they were serious about gaining market share or the time before that that they were serious about gaining market share? Yeah, this time I'm sure they're serious about taking market share, right?

The first red flag is talking about market share and poor sales, and not once talking about actual GAMERS when they're trying to peddle their gaming GPUs.

Sorry but I'll believe it when I see it. There's a reason the running jokes are "AMD never disappoints to disappoint" and "AMD never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity." Or my favorite, "AMD. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory."

AMD needs to stop listening to it's fanboy echo chamber and listen to the other 90% that keeps buying Nvidia. FSR =/= DLSS. The drivers are better than before, but still not up to par. The codecs are behind. Upscaling is behind. VR support is pathetic. And even then their "good enough" features are not good enough if so few games utilize them, and they only undercut Nvidia pricing by 5-10%. Even most of their partner games don't support FSR3.

I'm concerned they're yet again letting loose optimistic cherry picked leaks saying they're within 5% of a 4080, just to find out it's trading blows with a 7900xt and 5070ti and they'll price it at something stupid like $699 and everyone that's not an AMD fanboy will spend the extra 50 bucks to not put up with the AMD jank.

 

[nogaard777]

Graphs and charts are all well and good but the real question for me will be supply. Readily available at MSRP would be pretty big

Only to a tiny degree. Everyone is laser focused on 50 series being in short supply and getting scalped right now, but immediately after launch is NEVER when the bulk of sales occur and EVERY GPU launches to this BS these days. Even the XTX has skyrocketed to $12-1300 right now because of scalping.

Anyone that thinks these magically won't get scalped as well are dreaming. Even the freaking B580 is getting scalped and that's an entry level GPU. There is NO chip shortage anymore. AMD and Nvidia are simply waving all their capacity towards AI and CPUs. This is a manufactured shortage on GPUs and the only ones winning are the scalpers because YOU DON'T MATTER to these companies.

The bulk of GPU sales will happen over the next 2 years as supply ramps up, and that's where I worry Intel will fall behind. They have WAY too much demand for desktop chips even though the AMD fanboys love to pretend no one buys Intel. The DIY gamer is a tiny single digit portion of the overall picture compared to OEM laptops and desktops, and that's where Intel still has a commanding lead when AMD refuses to accept those small margins.

 

[nogaard777]

"Prοmisеs 4K mаinstrеаm gаming". 4K οn IJATGC аt 240FPS οr 4K οn minеcrаft аt 30FPS? "Mаinstrеаm 4K" cаn mеаn а whοlе рilе οf things. Thе GTX 950 cаn dο 4K gаming. Sο cаn thе RTX 5090. Simрly рrοmising "Mаinstrеаm 4K" mеаns nοthing

Doesn't help when she specifically mentions AI. That tells me 4k60 upscaled from 1080p using FSR in performance mode. Which does NOT look good. 🤣

AMD already has just as shady of a history with marketing claims as Intel and Nvidia, but they completely lost any and all confidence when they claimed Zen3 XT chips were beating 14th gen and it turned out they were purposely gimping 14th gen with super slow memory and a 6600xt, but even worse did NOT include those details in the release and you had to request it. That's a HUGE no-no.

At least when Nvidia tries to sell you BS 5070 "performance" that's really MFG, they include the details on the same page. AMD straight up lied. While all these companies pull this marketing BS that one was bordering on illegal. Ever since then I just assume everything AMD says is BS even worse than Intel or Nvidia.

 

[nogaard777]

AMD does a great job with its fans (mindshare) to where it may as well be a religion as they always believe no matter what.

AMD fanboys shout the loudest and cry even louder. If you went off Reddit and Youtube comments you'd think AMD held 90% of CPU sales and 50% of GPU sales, which is laughably not even remotely true. They're like Apple cultists.

AMD makes some fine products, but their fanboys are insufferable.

 

[Bikki]

what is that naming, and next gen will be 9070->10070? why not go with 970 amd!