AMD Delaying RDNA 4 Was the “Right Move,” It’s Claimed as Red Team Reveals It Needs Extra Time to Optimize Performance and Enable More FSR 4 ...

[Tsing]

The Radeon RX 9070 and Radeon RX 9070 XT, two of the first gaming GPUs to leverage AMD's new RDNA 4 architecture, will not be released this month as prior rumors and speculation had suggested, but that's actually a great thing because if they had, they may have been crushed by NVIDIA and its new GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" Series, according to the latest conversations on social media surrounding what some of AMD's critics have described as a "PR stunt."

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[Marees]

Are you sure that it was not because they need to refund $200 or $300 to micro center ???

 

[Brent_Justice]

"Enable More FSR 4 Titles for Radeon RX 9000 Series"

I mean, that should have been the default anyway, they do this a lot, FSR 3, FSR 3.1, AFMF, etc... this happens far too often. They really need to take their time and release with support of these features, or patterns will repeat.

 

[Uvilla]

I dont know if reddit posts mean anything what so ever. Reddit is massive cesspool.

 

[Marees]

MLID spin

 

[LazyGamer]

They really need to take their time and release with support of these features, or patterns will repeat.

Cue reminiscions about AMDs driver guy working overtime...

Maybe FSR4 will be better than past releases.

 

[Uvilla]

Also, I dont understand these statements about Nvidia being able to just drop prices ( from the reddit post) . Can they really?
Dont they use top of the line memory and huge chips built on the latest of nearly latest lithography? So this is cheap now?

 

[Marees]

Also, I dont understand these statements about Nvidia being able to just drop prices ( from the reddit post) . Can they really?
Dont they use top of the line memory and huge chips built on the latest of nearly latest lithography? So this is cheap now?

Atleast for blackwell the 50xx cards are the same process node as 40xx cards

 

[LazyGamer]

Also, I dont understand these statements about Nvidia being able to just drop prices ( from the reddit post) . Can they really?
Dont they use top of the line memory and huge chips built on the latest of nearly latest lithography? So this is cheap now?

Nvidia always has better margins. They can sacrifice that if they sense a threat at any time.

 

[Brian_B]

Wasn't nVidia's margin part of what put evga out of the GPU business? They were pretty healthy from what I recall on the gamer/consumer products, and I imagine even better on the commercial products.

I'm sure there's a good bit of overhead and R&D costs in there that aren't insignificant. But you don't get to be a $3T+ company without good profit margins either. Could nVidia afford to lower the margin - absolutely. Probably considerably. But they won't so long as they can convince enough people to pay them...