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AMD Announces Pricing and Release Dates for RX 6800, RX 6800 XT, RX 6900 XT | MMORPG.com
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AMD Announces Pricing and Release Dates for RX 6800, RX 6800 XT, RX 6900 XT | MMORPG.com
AMD has taken the lid off their newly announced desktop RDNA 2 graphics cards, the AMD Radeon RX 6800, RX 6800 XT and RX 6900 XT.
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What happened to the budget modern gpu's? Even the RTX 3060 is going to be over $400; these used to be around $250.
They start with serious gamers where getting those extra few settings maxed or fps are important and noticeable.
The more casual gamer cards start releasing steadily after.
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I'm more interested in whatever AMD's version of DLSS is. I read a while ago that it was called FX Fidelity but i don't think i've ever seen that in action.
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The vendors generally start with their high end, and then work their way down the stack. I'm not sure how low they'll go with their new cards. Nvidia might just decide to leave the GeForce 1600 series as their lineup for the sub-$300 market, or they might offer Ampere replacements. Or maybe they'll offer a $200 Ampere card, but keep the GTX 1650 around for the lower end. I somewhat expect AMD to offer an RDNA2 replacement for the Radeon RX 5500 XT, but they might not, and even if they do, it's likely several months away.
There is still the question of just how low end the vendors are willing to go with discrete cards. After all, excluding Ampere and RDNA2, the "current" lineups of cards that may still be actively being produced at the lower end goes:
Nvidia:
GeForce GTX 1650 super
GeForce GT 1030
GeForce GT 710
AMD:
Radeon RX 5500 XT
Radeon RX 550
Note that those are different generations. Some generations they decide it's cheaper to keep producing an older card than to build a new card that goes below a particular price threshold. Integrated GPUs are eating up more and more of the low end market.
I only used it on death stranding and gained like 15fps.
the new gpus look good but ugh...a bit overpriced , cool thing is that old series will lower its prices !
It seems that when AMD vacates the high end and makes their top end card cost $300, people complain that it isn't as fast as Nvidia's $700 card. When AMD makes a high end card and charges accordingly, people complain that it's priced like a high end card and not still $300. High end cards require large GPU dies, and that makes them expensive to buy because they're expensive to build.
The 6900 XT is basically there for people who are willing to pay a large premium for AMD to bin out the very best dies for them. For most gamers, it's way overpriced, and the performance per dollar is pretty terrible. The same is true of the GeForce RTX 3090.
Meanwhile, the 6800 non-XT is a much larger drop in performance than in price as compared to the 6800 XT, at least unless AMD really botched the design and the 6800 XT is going to be heavily memory bandwidth bottlenecked. Most of the people considering a 6800 should just spend a little more for the 6800 XT (or spend less on something else or buy Nvidia). That tells me that AMD doesn't have that many dies that they need to get rid of that can fit 6800 specs but not 6800 XT specs.
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That said, depending on when AMD placed the order for mass production, there may or may not be a shortage at launch. There's also the question of how much of capacity they can get at TSMC, and how much of that they're willing to devote to Big Navi. In spite of the high prices, because the GPUs are so large, they get far less gross profit per mm^2 than they do out of Zen 3 chips. It's rumored that the reason Nvidia went with Samsung was precisely because they couldn't get enough capacity on TSMC's 7 nm node.
Dont be fooled. Higher prices are to please the investors. Its not the problem pf the high end cards, we had always had high end cards but today a mid range card is on the price point of a high range card-back in the days. The could sell for the same srice but seeing how stupid human retards behave with iphones- why not do the same. Well, they do. Also lets not forcet the miners wich brought us the higher prices due the huge demand.
Charge as much as people are willing to pay.
I couldn't make those those kinds of assessments and judgements unless I knew what the cost to mfg. is. New tech is always expensive no matter what the field.
We have to think about recouping RnD and production line costs. It cost a hell of a lot of money to tool up.
My original comment was more about reminiscing about the past rather then justifying/criticizing the cost of todays GPU.
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EDIT: Also games I dont have on steam I can still stream to the Shield with the GeForce app.