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It's been a persistent rumour for around a year now that ALU count of Zen5 is going up by 50% from 4 to 6 ALUs per core, so in raw performance that's a 50% increase. In reality, it could be more like the 20-30% rumoured depending on workloads, and the ones that are really ALU bottlenecked might...

If they can manage 7900XT and above performance for £400-500, I'll likely get it for my next upgrade. I feel like I'm done with chasing performance at the high end now, my 3070Ti has done more than a half decent job at gaming at 1440p for 3 years. Even if I upgrade to a 4K monitor, 7900XT levels...

Nah I think if anything, Nvidia and their ultra fanboys are the ones with the victim mentality here. Their technologies like DLSS are proprietary and yet they want it to be forced into every game at the cost of the developers. If Nvidia had made DLSS like XeSS with an cross platform fallback...

Sounds like a manufacturing defect, probably some of the dud chambers made it past QC and into the final products. With the covid shutdowns in China over the last few months, I wouldn't be surprised if factories were purposely doing this to make as much money as possible. Then again who knows...

10% gain is pretty decent for a gfx overclock these days, as long as these weren't golden samples and 3GHz+ is consistently reachable with more power and a decent cooler then it's a bonus over the 4080 for me.

Interesting that TPU's review of the ASUS OC and XFX Merc models has them both OCing over 3GHz and essentially bridging the gap between the 4080 and 4090 at least in Cyberpunk 2077. https://www.techpowerup.com/review/asus-radeon-rx-7900-xtx-tuf-oc/39.html Seems like 3Ghz+ is real after all, as...

Really I don't think this will be AMD's top RDNA3 GPU, the core count seems too low for a flagship at 6144 stream processors. Also the pricing is significantly lower than the 4080 which it beats, and is also significantly lower than the 6900XT/6950XT. Nvidia are bound to bring in a 4090Ti which...

Honestly just buy a U-series laptop as a daily driver and to play games like football manager. The AMD 6000 series APUs with RDNA2 graphics should be easily capable enough for that + some 1080p gaming while only using 15-25W.

That's essentially what I said. DDR4 was overpriced on release but after a short time you could get DDR4 that was higher capacity and faster than equivalently priced DDR3. It will be the same with DDR5, by the time Zen4 comes out next year we'll probably be able to get 32GB 5000MHz DDR5 for...

The raw latency isn't much worse than DDR4, it's typically around 3-5 ns more with CL40 at the higher frequencies. Usually JEDEC timings are quite loose as well, e.g. the JEDEC spec for 3200MHZ DDR4 has CL22 timings. So that's why I said wait for final production units because they could well...

The main reason why AMD isn't onto 5nm yet is because TSMC's capacity is being taken by Apple for the A13 and M1 SoCs, this will change at the end of the year as TSMC increases capacity and Apple is expected to move to 4/3nm. 5nm isn't a mobile node or only for low clock parts, the node itself...

TSMC's 5nm in its current state is already superior to 7nm in terms of performance and power consumption, Intel's problems are because they gambled on new tech that failed, resulting in poor yield and performance. Also I'm sure those bad DDR5 timings that were recently posted on the internet...

Zen4 and RDNA3 coming in Q3 2022 sounds a bit late. AMD will get 5nm production capacity before the end of this year, I doubt they'll not release anything for basically a year unless they're planning to use it on APUs.

You're a bit out of date there, AMD have been with Mercedes the last year or so. :p

In a way it makes sense for AMD to release both Zen3+ and Zen4 this year. Zen3+ is the endgame update for those with DDR4, and Zen4 will be a new platform altogether for early adopters of DDR5. One will be 7nm and the other 5nm, so manufacturing one isn't going to directly affect the production...

Used Intel in my main rig from 2002 to 2017, switched to AMD with first gen Ryzen. Never encountered any notable problems, I actually found first gen Zen to be very impressive in terms of smoothness and stability for a brand new platform. Later upgraded to a Zen+ which I got for cheap and then...

Dust filters won't completely shield the internals from dust, some fine dust will get through the filter and the various holes in your chassis and deposit on components. Could be that there is a problem getting enough airflow through the front, and air is being pulled in from places like the...

A lot of reviewers are still using a 2080Ti/3070 which is a bottleneck for even a 10700k/10900k. The reviewers using a 3080/3090 are showing much more consistent wins for the AMD CPUs. Also needs to be noted that they haven't tuned the RAM either. 3600MHz CL16 is the fastest I've seen used so...

Even stock I think a saving of £500 would be worth the small gap in performance. There is 10-15% difference between a 3080 and 3090, 6900XT is likely only 5-10% away from a 3090 at worst.

AMD just crapped on the 3090. £500 less for 8GB less VRAM, 50W less TDP and only a handful of FPS behind. Those with 3090 pre-orders should probably think about cancelling, they might not even receive them by Nov 18th anyway.