AMD's Big GPU Plans, Steam Families & More | The Full Nerd ep. 317

Join The Full Nerd gang as they talk about the latest PC building news. In this episode the gang covers all of the AMD GPU news from IFA 2024 as well as Steam Families arriving for all. And of course we answer your questions live!

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00:00 - Pre-show
06:13 - Intro
19:56 - AMD's Big GPU Plans
47:30 - Steam Families
59:05 - Viewer Q&A

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[SpawnWaveMedia]

Prayers to Gordon, we miss you buddy 🙏

[SecretAgentSuperDragon]

Will is a good dude to have on pretty regular, I like his style.

[DiabloMonk]

I think the Kinder Eggs were smuggled from Uranus to Djibouti.

[tklotz]

Steam Familys is long overdue. Being able to share a digital game as effortlessly as a game disk with your family should have been solved years ago.

[itsdeonlol]

I'm glad that AMD is focusing on the mid range GPUs rather than high end GPUs because, if they can do the mid range really well, everybody wins in the end!

[techiegk]

As I say, a lot. Thank you for the podcast version. I'm heading off to listen to that later tonight because I just got someone going on. I can only listen to my ears. Can't really watch with my eyes. Thank you for both formats though. Seriously. Thanks.

[jeffsmith]

Kinder contraband....woo hoo! Those rock.

[stennan]

AMD needs to make RDNA4 effective with solid margins. Thus making a monolithic mid size GPU is probably the best way to go if they are having issues with big multi core (MCD) chips.

If we end up in a future where AI still is more profitable, I think the 3 GPU makers will stay on an older node where they can have lower costs and more capacity while using a new design. Since gamers are more price sensitive, we might have to live with marginal improvements each gen and hope all the AI hype/tech trickles into our gaming Gpus.

[tappy]

A good efficient mid range is the most important dGPU for the performance market, secondarily a good efficient low end is important for the iGPU market. Let nvidia and apple make giant chips that use vastly too much silicon to attain that top end performance.

[Ben-Rogue]

I'm not upgrading to Windows 11 because I'll be saving an OS upgrade for when I do a MoBo upgrade, and by then Windows 12 will probably be a thing.

[Ben-Rogue]

Looks like AMD's Radeon 8000 series will just be a bit of a placeholder until their get their UDNA (next DNA) cards sorted... Makes sense unifying if they want NPU's to do "A.I' work on gaming GPU's, for games, as data centers could benefit from this too. Could mean cut down consumer cards with potentially MASSIVE amounts of NPU 'cores' that could help accelerate up-scaling and RT work, as Nvidias tensor cores do. Also makes sense, since the PSSR up-scaling AMD will be working with uses "A.I"

[LukesBlenderChannel]

AMD isn't choosing anything. Nobody chooses to play in the Canadian Football League. They're just admitting ahead of time that it's their only option, which is pretty rare. This is AMD pulling a Dominoes. "Dear valued customer, we heard you. We know our pizza sucks, but we're doing our best! There's better things to come if you're willing to give us another chance."

[thesupremeginge]

I edit videos every day. Back when I had Windows 10, i had constant random crashing. Nothing I tried fixed it. I was about to do a fresh install, but they announced the beta for Windows 11. So I just did a strait upgrade, which fixed the problem. That was about a year before 11's release. I've been on it ever since. Not sure where these crazy ideas come from. Adobe and BlackMagic make their editing software for Windows 11.

[oneanother]

Do you guys talks about consoles? The ps5 pro is hotly debated right now. It has amd hardware, and it would be interesting to have your take on it vs what PC gaming hardware would offer as the alternative. The x3d CPU is the hotness in desktop amd PC. Could the ps5 pro or even ps6 could benefit from x3d? Apparently, the cost of the console is not limited anymore.

Good time for console gamers to switch to PC gaming?

[xnitropunkx]

I would never support Epomaker. Their products are of the lowest quality imaginable and all they really do is buy cheap parts and stamp their brand on it. Avoid at all costs

Edit : I say this as someone who has purchased and returned 3 of their products.

[dihartnell]

Abandoning the high end GPU market may be good for AMD but it's not good for consumers overall. The last time they did that RX480/580 etc Nvidia took the opportunity to jack the prices up significantly and it dragged up the prices of the whole GPU market, not just the high end.

[DiabloMonk]

Adam, Will may not be your father, but you can call him Daddy 😍

[zivzulander]

I've always said y'all are my family
(share Steam library, please 🥺)

[Pavlobot]

Instead of using AI in the next consoles for some crappy upscaling, they should use it for NPC dialog. Imagine every random NPC you can just talk to in the mic and it can respond

[jeffsmith]

'Jarring' is hearing Windows 11 referred to as an 'upgrade'. Ewwww