I'll offer another theory: they could be stocking up the mid-range chips for FirePro cards with a lot of VRAM in order to "promote" AMD with the AI crowd. Seeing how their latest drivers specifically called out AI workloads improvements in SDiff and such, I'd imagine it's not a far fetched theory. This also includes the big strides with ROCm.
They would still sell those for more money and, probably, sell everything to the Prosumer and Professional markets before their CDNA cards are ready for workstations (IIRC).
Do I like this? Generally speaking, not really. I still have my Vega64 plowing through games just fine and the 6900XT for VR, so I'm not really bothered by current and, possibly, next gen, but I do mind "the trends" I guess.
Anyway, we'll see how this one pans out rather soon!
Regards.
Could be the case but how many times did we expect them to make some serious leap ahead of competition only to fail miserably? Ryzen 7000 was praised to oblivion, with headlines and clickbait titles on YouTube screaming "Intel is in trouble", same thing happened to 7000 GPU lineup "Nvidia is in trouble"...Maybe they are waiting with full stock and based on final performance and market reaction they will go one way or the other and most likely, sadly, fail no matter which way they go (if you don't know where you are sailing no wind is favourable).
I knew that! They released the mid level cards so late that now the next gen is close ! And weeks before the ram price drop!
In my country those cards offered interesting value, like 6700 was often cheaper than 6600XT or even 6650XT, which was sometimes cheaper than 6600XT...but does anyone know why are they doing midgen refresh while still producing regular models? Or has there been a mountain of regular models in stock up to this day? If not how is it possible to have refreshed model (for example 6650XT from may 2022) still mixed up with regular model (6600XT from August 2021) even 1 year after its release?
My baseless guess is the additional complexity involved in the chiplet design means they can't hit the prices they need to hit to be competitive.
Maybe it has nothing to do with complexity but rather finding out their architecture is not really competitive in this generation, combined with plenty of old cards available almost everywhere and Nvidia doing Nvidia things, they just play a waiting game, keeping old cards higher and earning whats left to earn. Why would they push new cards out, cannibalise their own products and god forbid maybe start a price war in duopoly? Nobody (out of those 2 relevant players) wants that.
Disagree with what? Sounds like you just agreed with wanting to see “RDNA 3 upgrades in the $400–$600 range.”
Which we probably will, given 7900 XT is selling at $780. Knock off 4GB VRAM and use a smaller GCD and 7800 for $600 (maybe less) is certainly viable. 7700 with 12GB will hopefully land at $400.
I'll offer different perspective maybe 🤔 Catcher in the rye was replaced by Harry Potter when it comes to most common book(s) children read (ask any literature teacher) and finally somewhat solid Harry Potter game is released and whoa oh my oh my, it eats even more than 12 gigs of vram, sometimes even on 1080p. Do you want 450-500€ GPU, replace the old one, maybe it fits, maybe it doesn't, maybe you have time to research all those cards I don't know...or you prefer a 500€ console to plug and play with no issues whatsoever? This Nvidia's push towards average GPU price qual to console price is a trap. 600usd (720€) for 1440p 16gb GPU? Is that supposed to be a good deal or something?
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