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0:00 AMD launched Radeon RX 7900 GRE for $649 on July 28
1:11 RX 6800XT vs RX 7900 GRE Specs
2:28 RX 7900 GRE 1440p Benchmarks vs RTX 4070 and RX 7900 XT (No RT)
5:32 (RT) RX 7900 GRE 1440p Benchmarks vs RTX 4070 and RX 7900 XT
8:24 RX 7900 GRE already available in Germany, system pricing
10:36 RX 7900 GRE Sapphire NITRO+ and PowerColor Red Devil
11:26 AMD HIP SDK: making CUDA applications run on AMD GPUs
13:33 The return of Bad AMD Drivers?
15:31 RTX 4090 Ti cancelled?
17:09 Next Nvidia flagship to have 512-bit memory interface?
18:33 Intel denies rumors of plan to increase CPU prices
19:26 Intel finally has profitable quarter again
20:12 3D V-Cache on laptops is real
21:51 AMD confirms Ryzen 3 744U w/6cores, hybrid design, Phoenix 2
23:14 Computer Base updates GPU power consumption data, fascinating results
24:44 First DirectStorage 1.2 with GPU decompression on PC also uses CPU
28:10 XeSS 1.1 much better than FSR2 on my Steam Deck (Remnant 2 and Ratchet & Clank)
31:39 Unreal Engine 5.3
31:53 Colorful 4070 with hidden power connectors launched, mini RTX 4060
32:44 Nintendo Switch 2 coming Early 2024?
33:43 Armored Core VI supports 120 FPS on PC and Ray Tracing
34:18 I have a 4060 Ti 16GB now, will test soon

[ChristianKoehler]

That 'CUDA on AMD' thing is huge.

I have done some CUDA programming (and other GPU programming). There is a reason why CUDA is so dominant. It's not just market share.

With something like OpenCL (which has been available on AMD for a long time), your program has to initialize a context for the GPU, allocate buffers in video memory, put data into the buffers, make the driver compile shader code for the GPU, have the GPU execute that code, read results from the buffers etc. All of that hopefully without errors. Bugs are very hard to find because the GPU is basically a black box, there is no easy way to see what the shader code (which does most of the work) is really doing.
With CUDA you have to do none of that. You can program almost as if you were targeting a 'normal' computer with many cpu cores. All that resource management, translation into shader code etc. is done automatically for you. You can do step by step debugging etc like you do with any other program code. It's well integrated into Visual Studio.
It seems nobody else has put up the resources to develop something that is as fully featured and as easy to use as CUDA.
Many devs will be more than happy if there is an easy way to make applications run on non Nvidia hardware as well.

[Chrisp-]

2:50 I felt this 🤣🤣 brain straight froze for a second. Good on you for keeping it in and not editing it out.

[Melan_B]

Can't wait for the 7900 12GB version and the 7900 8GB and the 7900 720p

[FatNorthernBigot]

I've heard good things about the "Golden Rabbit Edition", but it's nowhere near as good as the "Bronze Badger", and doesn't even match the "Silver Feret".

[AlexConnor_]

7900 GRE confirms what we already know, 7000-series and 6000-series have very similar raster performance. 80 CU 7900 GRE is roughly equivalent to 80 CU 6950 XT, however the newer card will offer better RT performance and slightly better power efficiency.

Worth buying over the 6950XT if available for the same price.

[zimmesco]

Dude I just checked right before you uploaded but im back and ready to hear the news! Thanks for the video dude!

[jumpman]

This 80CU Navi31 being effectively tied with 80CU Navi21 sums up the whole RDNA3 generation.

[farazalikhan]

This should be cost about $500-550 honestly, hope the price drops to this as it has for the rest of RX 7000 series

[MrHeroBrian]

Concerning FSR vs XeSS I can vouch for XeSS being better in Cyberpunk 2077 on my GTX 1070. Couldn't notice much of a performance difference but XeSS has less motion artifacts. I remember seeing the difference clearly when going into the badlands and looking at the windmills turning

[sotg]

Another great video! You a Rick Beato fan? I like his interviews and song breakdowns

[BUCCIMAIN]

AMD needs to make a hardware accelerated version for FSR so they could at least compete in the space.

[taotie]

23.7.2 drivers on my 7900XT brought further power usage optimizations. On my 144+60Hz dual monitor setup idle power draw drops to even 6-8W now. So it is a way firward for me for sure.

[vhnetwork]

Daniel Owens 15:00 there is a problem with the newer drivers for AMD and some desktop GPUs.
I had to rollback / DDU from the the last two current Radeon Drivers back to an late April released driver because the Radeon Settings was missing the 'Graphics', 'Display' menus and a few other menus under Radeon Settings. I only caught this after attempting to play MK11 and noticed a constant screen tearing line while playing. I exited the game, checked Radeon settings and didn't see 'Graphics' & 'Display' anywhere.
My driver was at 23.7.1 so I tried the update option there to go to 23.7.2, same missing Radeon settings. I attempted to install an old version so it would roll back, failed. Hence, I had to DDU to remove it all, and put back on an old April 23.4.3 Adrenalin driver I had saved. I now have all the menus again in Radeon settings, and no screen tearing in MK11.
This was on my oldest rig that runs a RX 5700 XT 50th Anniversary Edition GPU with a R7 3700X.
I just checked my other two rigs, one is using a XFX Radeon RX 6800 on a i5-12600K and it too is missing 'Graphics' & 'Display' menus under Radeon settings, and its running 23.7.1.
the 3rd rig using a RX 6800 XT Midnight black on a R7 5800X3D has all the menus in Radeon settings and of course its running 23.4.3 Adrenalin driver.
I'm checking my HTPC box that uses a Ryzen 5 3400G APU and the Radeon setting won't even launch, says the driver been replaced by Windows although I know it hasn't. What I have observed happen with Radeon drivers is that as they get old, they will stop working or cause other components in the computer to stop working like the TV Tuner in this HTPC, until I update the driver. Looking on AMD's website they list the current 23.7.2 driver to install for this old APU, which I believe will probably lead me to a Radeon Settings with missing sub-menus.

[CRBarchager]

1:25 Considering the performance of the 7900 XTX/XT/GRE series cards they should have been called the 7800 xxx instead. It would have made more sence when you compare them to the nVIDIA counterpart and the rest of the stack should move one tier down 7800 -> 7700 and 7700 > 7600 and 7600 -> 7500.

[JKLauderdale]

I'm stuck in a 2slot ITX case so I'm more interested in seeing the GRE is actually a 2slot card. Gives me hope for the 7800 as the EOL card for my current PC.

[abhishekgilatar]

You did flash banged with that white background! XD

[cosmosofinfinity]

Armored Core on PC at all, let alone at 120fps and with ray tracing, is a dream come TRUE

[wumbology]

I'm very curious at how the 7900GRE overclocks, as the power limit is quite low compared to the other 7900 cards, at 260W. This card isnt a direct upgrade to the 6950 but is more power efficient, and im curious what the performance would look like if the 7900 was overclocked to 335W.

[davidfox]

A title that isn't clickbait.. Wonderful!

[walter]

They have to use 3nm if they want to compete with 5090 or use a much bigger die on a cheaper node