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AMD Radeon VII Might Reach End Of Life Soon - MMORPG.com News
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AMD Radeon VII Might Reach End Of Life Soon - MMORPG.com News
According to VideoCardz.com via Cowcotland, AMD's flagship GPU, Radeon VII, might reach end of life soon.
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The statement was that the rumors of the replacement are pesky not the hardware
Pesky 'rumours' is says... as in the rumours are pesky, not the product.
The rumours are pesky (annoying) because the features, specs and rumoured problems of Navi 20s haven't been confirmed or denied yet. You're reading it all wrong.
nvidia is the best.
I think it was more a proof of concept and a way to preempt Nvidia tossing out a 7nm card out of the blue with no retail availability when AMD was right on the doorstep. And try to steal a little Nvidia thunder themselves at the same time.
Navi was the real play all along I think.
The real reasons the card is power hungry is because it's clocked aggressively and it's very heavily derivative of an architecture that was seven years old when the card launched, so it lacked a lot of the efficiency improvements that had been found in the meantime. But that wouldn't make the card go end of life. A bigger problem is that it's expensive to build, because of the four stacks of HBM2.
I can't imagine that AMD would discontinue Vega 20 entirely until they've got a viable compute card to replace it. It's possible that they'll discontinue the consumer version, as it's a compute card that just happens to have a gaming driver, and it wasn't obvious if they'd ever bother to make a consumer version of it in the first place. For comparison, Nvidia didn't make a consumer version of their GP100 or GV100 compute dies.
Radeon VII is a bigger deal because it's less than 6 months old.
I doubt we would have seen Radeon VII if Navi had launched in march. Rumors have it Navi had a few set backs so without those it could have launched around march probably.
Also the fact there are no custom coolers seemed to me that the card wasn't something long term and more of a look what we got, while waiting for Navi to be ready.
I expect new Navi cards both lower and higher tier before the end of the year.
Read the original paragraph 9 times over. Still cant see how this guy is seeing anyone talking about the Navi GPUs being perska
https://ashesofcreation.com/r/Y4U3PQCASUPJ5SED
As to the card, it is very expensive to make as pointed out earlier in the thread and certainly not overpriced either as it competed with the similarly priced 2080. This card is probably not going to be available in the consumer marketplace for long because AMD can't really discount it much.
Go READ IT. Fucking idiots think that if they don't already know about something it isn't true.
But hey we all have 'hindsight' abilities like 'suckers that bought X card back then is being beat by the new X card just released' like hit the brakes..I mean when I was shopping for a 2080/Radeon VII back in March I do remember not seeing any Navi 5700/xt cards for sale..O yeah it did not exist to buy back then yet. Same as those who bought the 2080/2070 and now you have SUPER cards like again talk about replacing a lineup that is, what, 10 months old.
Sigh tech people
But moving on from GCN/Polaris entirely will take quite a few more years. Most likely either the Radeon R7 240 or the Radeon RX 550 will be around for many years to come, to give people an option for a low end card. It might be a while before it makes sense to make a low end card on 7 nm at all, and even once it does show up, it's going to be overpriced for quite a while because the 7 nm node will be more expensive than older nodes for quite a few years.