AMD intentionally held back from developing a 600 W, US$1,600 RDNA 3 equivalent for the RTX 4090, feels mainstream gamers can instead spend savings on other PC parts

[Anonymousssss]

Another point about the drivers I want to clarify, I currently have a nvidia gpu and have used many recent AMD GPUs. The experience with Nvidia drivers and windows is horrendous. And seems to be worse than anything I've used with my 3 amd gpus, I understand that just me though so I thought I would put that out there.

[Anonymousssss]

Another point about the drivers I want to clarify, I currently have a nvidia gpu and have used many recent AMD GPUs. The experience with Nvidia drivers and windows is horrendous. And seems to be worse than anything I've used with my 3 amd gpus, I understand that just me though so I thought I would put that out there.

[DrStrange]

It wouldn't have had to be a 600w part.  Many 4090s are 450w and do just fine.

AMD just couldn't compete in that tier without it being commercially unviable.  It is as simple as business gets

[Mo Ra]

They are around 22 % behind the RTX 4090. A competitor would need to be within around 5%. If they had the originally claimed 54% performance per watt, they would have been within that ballpark.

Also, they could have added around 65mm2 or so to the GCD die and that would have gotten them to RTX 4090 levels without adding more than a couple of hundred dollars to the price.

[Jimbo]

This "article" is literally just paraphrasing a PR piece. The only thing worse than a PR article is a lazy reprint of it with no disclaimer. They are asserting that a 7900xtx and $600 worth of pc upgrades would game better than a 4090? Absurd, especially with cpu prices so competitive. I got my 13600k for $250 and it won't bottleneck my card at 4k so what would be the point of spending more on a cpu? 1440p is a little different but I'm fairly sure that my combo will handily beat a 7900xtx with a 7950x3d at anything above 1080p, RT or not. They simply cannot keep up, period.