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If there are still selling out their supply then why should they lower their price?
by Pet_Ant 6y ago
If there are still selling out their supply then why should they lower their price?
- nebulous1 6y agoCan't rely on nvidia not having supply forever
- dragontamer 6y agoI mean, 6800 XT stock is sold out everywhere too. So if anything, AMD should have also raised prices.
- chillwaves 6y agoI went to a local computer store (a big one) a few hours before they opened today. Was already a line waiting of around 150 people. Did not get a gpu.
- phone8675309 6y agoThe rumor is that AMD shipped 200 GPUs for all of the UK
- mey 6y agoSource?
- CyberDildonics 6y agoThere were 150 people waiting in line before the store opened on a weekday? Do you think they were waiting for the latest AMD GPU or that they were trying to get a new console for the holidays?
- lozaning 6y agoThere was 100+ people in line at my local micro center, for what couldn't have been more than 20 cards total across models. No was in line for anything but the chance to buy these cards.
- mhh__ 6y agoThese cards will be on top for at least a year. Currently why would anyone buy AMD for $50 cheaper? You get nothing bundled with it and AMD's tricks are shit and their software is flaky.
- dragontamer 6y ago+6 GBs of VRAM is a pretty solid spec. There's some degree of worry that 10GB on the 3080 is not enough for the high-end games of the future. NVidia made a mistake leaving a huge gaping hole between the 10GB 3080 and the 24GB 3090. A 6800 XT fills that hole with a nice little 16GB.
- mhh__ 6y agoThe VRAM is a plus but isn't AMDs compute performance and infrastructure pretty bad? I want to like their cards but they just don't seem to be able to balance the seesaw across all fronts
- dragontamer 6y agoCompute performance is fine. 20+ TFlops (or T-Integer ops) on 128MB L3 cache on 16GBs GDDR6. I don't think anyone can complain about the raw compute performance of these cards. Infrastructure: yeah. Without ROCm support, its hard to recommend. You still get Windows DirectCompute, OpenCL, and Vulkan compute. But ROCm is much easier to use than those other frameworks. --------- For compute: With 40 WGP x 4 SIMDs per WGP x 32 Threads per WGP x Occupany 4, you're probably aiming at 20,480 SIMD-threads if you're going to be using compute on this card. Occupancy 20 is supported: 20-threads per VALU, kinda like hyperthreading although you split your registers between the threads. 20 is probably too much (too few VALUs per thread), but 1 is too few (you'll be waiting on VRAM latency). So 4 to 8 is an estimate for how much occupancy a typical program probably needs to hide memory latency. Those 16GBs / 20kiloThreads == 780kB per thread. Sooooo... yeah. RAM goes quick... really quick... on compute applications. Compute programmers really want more VRAM.
- leetcrew 6y agoI doubt it was a mistake. more likely an intentional 3080ti-sized hole in the lineup.