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lus wake up the radio 970 announcement
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just dropped come on that's right AMD
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finally announced those gpus that were
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first spotted in full retail packaging
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weeks ago and I can't believe I'm saying
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this but it's even more exciting than I
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dared to hope for now we had some idea
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what was coming of course rdna 3.5
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showed a solid uplift over rdna 3 in
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handhelds we got to look at some version
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of the ray tracing upgrades in the
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PlayStation 5 Pro and obviously AI was
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going to be a big Focus but now it's all
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coming together in a single package
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literally they're back to using a
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monolithic die I'm talking allnew rdna 4
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architecture an enhanced media engine
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third gen raid tracing accelerators
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second gen AI accelerators powering FSR
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4 upscaling and 16 gigs of vram at
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$599 and the best part if they've been
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shipping these things for
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months maybe stock perhaps I'm almost
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afraid to jins it but for the first time
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and as long as I can remember AMD might
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not have screwed up a GPU launch like
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I'm going to screw up this
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uh sco to our
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Spooner next too their allnew Aurora Pro
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Mark I projector improves on their first
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generation with a 4,000 to1 contrast
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ratio and support for all major HDR
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formats learn more today at the link in
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the video description
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[Music]
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feels like we've been waiting forever
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for rdna 4 but good things come to those
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who wait right and personally I'm glad
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that AMD let their Engineers cook we're
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going to dive a lot deeper when our
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review goes live next week but for now
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AMD is promising some big uplifts in
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performance per clock claiming that each
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CU or compute unit should be about 40%
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faster than rdna 3 for those of you who
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are keeping score at home 40% is a lot
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and it supposedly comes courtesy of
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improved scaler units and dynamic
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register allocation they've also got an
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enhanced memory subsystem which will
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supposedly help with the compute
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portions of Ray tracing workloads now
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it's too early to say if AMD has fully
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closed the Gap with Nvidia when it comes
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to Ray tracing but it seems like they're
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at least promising a major improvement
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over their last generation accelerators
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on top of the memory stuff they've added
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a second Ray intersection engine to
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allegedly double throughput for Ray box
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and Ray triangle testing there's a
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dedicated Hardware block for Ray
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transformation and a new hardware
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accelerator feature that they call
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oriented bounding boxes that's a lot of
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jargon but what it pretty much boils
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down to is this thing should trace your
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rays a lot better and I'm pretty excited
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about it even if the real world result
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doesn't quite match up with nvidia's
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latest I'm also excited about amd's new
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AI accelerators
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okay I'm not that excited about it but
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someone is maybe even you with only 16
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gigs of vram a piece the two cards that
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am revealed today won't be able to
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handle larger models but the claimed
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performance improvements for the models
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that they can handle are pretty big
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thanks to more math pipelines and
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expanding the capabilities of their AI
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accelerators AMD is claiming a two times
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performance uplift in fp16 and four
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times in int 8 compared to rdna 3 as for
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how that translates to real world
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results they showed some slides later
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comparing the 970 XT to the 7900 GRE and
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it does look pretty impressive and who
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knows maybe you'll actually use the AI
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features that AMD is coming out with
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like the optional image inspector which
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is an algorithm that monitors game
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frames and looks for image corruption
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during gameplay and the AMD
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chat oh good it's a local large language
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model that can supposedly help you
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configure your GPU and tune it neat like
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how you can keep your desk setup neat
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with Magnetic Cable Management from LTT
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store.com speaking of things looking
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nice the image quality improvements to
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the media engine look great if their
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slides are to be believed you could
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actually stream to Twitch with one of
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these cards without it looking like hot
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garbage let's just hope that along with
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the better encoding that they finally
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fixed that weird 1082 P Hardware
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encoding bug um regardless of that
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they've also promised 8K 80fps encode
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and decode support for hvc av1 and h264
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accelerated post-processing effects and
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no limit on the number of sessions or
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encoding streams Team Green meanwhile
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locks this behind their professional
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card pay wall so uh good guy AMD but
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also darn it AMD let's take a look at
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the hardware the 9070 and the 9070 XT
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are two surprisingly different cards
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they both appear to use the same die
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they're both equipped with 16 gigs of
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memory on a 256-bit bus but the XT is
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clocked way higher at darn near 3 GHz
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and pulls a whopping extra 84 Watts on
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top of that it has eight more compute
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units and RT accelerators and 16 more AI
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accelerators for an extra 392 tops all
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of which would be totally fine if the
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9070 wasn't priced a mere $50 lower AMD
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you're doing the thing again the 7900 XT
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got terrible reviews at launch because
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it was only $100 less than the XTX and
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it was way slower months later you
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discounted it when it wasn't selling and
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it picked up but the reviews were
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already out of the gate there's still
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time to fix this though $4.99 do it do
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it anywh who both cards regardless are
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quite Future Ready feature-wise with PCI
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Express Gen 5 interfaces HDMI 2.1b and
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display port 2.1a although it is worth
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noting that not all DP 2.1a ports are
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made equal and amds support only 54 GB
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per second compared to the 80 gbit pers
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second on nvidia's 50 Series in daily
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use this is unlikely to matter much
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since these cards aren't really expected
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to be as powerful as nvidia's top gpus
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and with display stream compression you
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should still be able to run a 4K 240 HZ
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monitor but it is worth noting but what
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should we expect performance-wise well
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thanks to FSR 4 maybe a lot as per usual
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you're going to have to wait for the
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reviews to drop from ourselves and
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others next week before you pull the
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trigger if their image comparisons are
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real and I don't have reason yet to
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believe they're not real the image
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quality has improved so much that maybe
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you won't mind bumping down from quality
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mode to Performance AMD like Nvidia is
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leaning on AI and neural rendering for
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this and they're calling it Fidelity F
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super resolution for ML powered
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upscaling this was teased almost a year
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ago and hey it looks like it's finally
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here the only issue is the lack of early
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support they've got a decent list of 30
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plus games at launch with over 75 more
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on the way for 2025 and I would expect
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that to grow but don't buy promises buy
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what you can use today because there's
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no telling if your favorite game will or
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won't end up being supported a feature
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that does support a much more sizable
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1,000 plus games list is hyper RX sort
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of it's a one-click solution that's been
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around for a while now and enables
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features like anti-ag boost and FSR with
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fluid motion frames 2.1 joining that
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roster and more coming soon in 2025
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however since not all of those games
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benefit from every single one of those
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features your performance improvements
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will vary on a game to game basis and
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not everyone is a fan of frame
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generation regardless of whether those
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frames are green fake frames or red fake
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frames speaking of Team Green Let's talk
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about availability cuz after all who
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gives a single flying about anything
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that AMD said today if the cards can't
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be bought I mean I was super excited
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about the 50 Series until they were
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proven to be made out of unobtanium so
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you'll have to forgive me for being a
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little jaded but I mean these cards have
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been in the hands of retailers for
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months
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we saw samples at CES in early January
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with our own eyes I've got one in my
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hand now so when AMD says wide
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availability March 6 2025 there's a
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small small Ray of Hope inside me that
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hasn't quite withered and died yet and
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wants so desperately to believe them so
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For the Love of All that is good please
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Andy please don't this up if this is
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another paper launch it'll just be my
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13th reason why the GPU mark market
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right now is terrible and Gamers should
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Despair and I don't want another reason
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like Intel's b580 came out and booed my
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spirits it's a great budget card it's
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just that it's hard to find at or near
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MSRP and then nvidia's 50 Series has
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been trickling out into the market as if
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each one of them is artisanally whittel
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out of silicon by like one guy gamers
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want reasonably price cards they want
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them now and AMD guys you've got a real
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opportunity to gain actual market share
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here as long as your cards aren't buggy
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and don't melt but hey good news AMD
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claims that this launch will be the best
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driver support they've ever had and
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considering how much they've been
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delayed apparently I actually kind of
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believe that they've given the software
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team some extra time to cook and they
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even say they've also improved their
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processes new AI optimized internal
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testing increased number of hardware
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test configurations in the lab and a new
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bug report tool that's loaded directly
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into the driver will hopefully lead to a
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smoother launch experience but will it
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be a little smoother or a lot to
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smoother we can't know until thousands
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of credit cards have been swiped and
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thousands of gpus have played thousands
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of games and also output thousands of LT
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