Navi Dicussion Thread

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https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/3205...ced-at-479

AMD has announced its upcoming 6700 XT. As the name implies, it’s intended as the lower-end sibling of the 6800 and 6800 XT series and as the generational, drop-in replacement for the 5700 XT.

The 6700 XT will hit store shelves on March 18 with a price of $479. This represents a price increase relative to that previous card, which debuted at $400. Of course, given current GPU prices, anyone able to score a new card at anything adjacent to MSRP will likely feel as if they’ve won the lottery regardless given current price trends.
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These gains should reduce the sting of higher prices somewhat — a 1.19x price increase ought to be “paid” for, in this instance, with a 1.3x – 1.4x performance improvement, which means AMD is objectively delivering a better value at that price point than it did 18 months ago. This is all for the good.

These clock boosts will also help offset the difference between the 6700 XT and its larger cousins. While the 6800 has a full 3840 cores, the base clock is just 1.8GHz. The 6700 XT has just 67 percent of the cores of the 6800 and 55 percent of the 6800 XT, but its base clock is 1.35x higher than the 6800 and 1.2x faster than the 6800 XT. This will help to close the performance gaps in compute-bound workloads.

Partner cards will be available at the same time as reference cards in an attempt to boost overall channel availability. AMD has not announced any plans to limit mining and it’s not clear how much cryptocurrency mining is creating problems right now. The GPU will focus on the 1440p segment, probably with some drops to 1080p for gamers who want smooth frame rates and added effects like ray tracing and are willing to drop resolution to get there.

Availability is likely to be minimal, despite AMD’s efforts. This is not a knock on AMD. Nvidia has had no success keeping GPUs on store shelves, either.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-fi...evelopment

AMD has kept its new DLSS competitor, FidelityFX Super Resolution, under wraps for some time now. That makes us wonder what's going on with the technology and when it will actually see the light of day. Fortunately, LinusTechTips received some insider knowledge from AMD as to why the supersampling tech is taking so long to develop.

Apparently, AMD wants FidelityFX Super Resolution to have some polish to it before release. AMD also wants it to be fully operational on all its graphics cards and RDNA-based consoles like the PS5 and Xbox Series X, at launch. The alternative would be slowly rolling out the technology, one platform at a time (assuming each platform proves capable).
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AMD also wants to make Super Resolution GPU agnostic, just like other FidelityFX libraries. That potentially means supporting many generations of GPUs, including Nvidia and possibly even Intel options. If AMD limited support for Super Resolution to RDNA2 based products, without getting it to work on first gen RX 5000 series, it would certainly draw flak. Getting it to work well on Vega integrated graphics and older GCN products like the RX 400 and 500 series GPUs meanwhile would make for a more compelling options for game developers.

Not only does it need to work on a variety of architectures, but it needs to look good and perform well. Simple resolution upscaling is easy, but it also causes a loss of visual quality. Doing all of this requires a lot of time, naturally. We do know AMD is actively working on FidelityFX Super Resolution. Hopefully, the DLSS alternative will work well and come out sooner rather than later.