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Notton Videocardz vs. Frank Azor? These info sources are awful. You might as well ask a magic 8 ball. Reply
usertests Notton said: Videocardz vs. Frank Azor? These info sources are awful. You might as well ask a magic 8 ball. The source was Hardware Luxx, a German outlet, and they were told it directly from AMD's David McAfee. AMD is the awful source in the end. Reply
DS426 AMD needs to simplify their support policies: hardware that is in support and software that is in support are supported together, with VERY few exceptions. If something has a huge perf penalty like FSR4 on RDNA2, that caution should be said upfront and then left upon the user. Instead, AMD is trying too hard by determining what has value to who and when, and that's obviously just getting too messy; two different key spokespeople over a product aren't on the same page, so… Reply
psyconz DS426 said: AMD needs to simplify their support policies: hardware that is in support and software that is in support are supported together, with VERY few exceptions. If something has a huge perf penalty like FSR4 on RDNA2, that caution should be said upfront and then left upon the user. Instead, AMD is trying too hard by determining what has value to who and when, and that's obviously just getting too messy; two different key spokespeople over a product aren't on the same page, so… I get the impression with a lot of these large organisations, that the left hand often doesn't know what the right hand is doing. It's definitely a matter of, between organisations, they might sue each other over one thing, meanwhile, at exactly the same time, be collaborating on things in other areas. It sure is an interesting world we live in. 🤣 Reply
Flyfisherman psyconz said: I get the impression with a lot of these large organisations, that the left hand often doesn't know what the right hand is doing. It's definitely a matter of, between organisations, they might sue each other over one thing, meanwhile, at exactly the same time, be collaborating on things in other areas. It sure is an interesting world we live in. 🤣 And sometimes the right hand doesn't know what it's doing either… Best regards from Sweden Reply
psyconz Flyfisherman said: And sometimes the right hand doesn't know what it's doing either… Best regards from Sweden 🤣🤣🤣 now that's funny =) Reply
dva852 Notton said: Videocardz vs. Frank Azor? These info sources are awful. The sources aren't conflicting. It's just the usual distortion you get from sensationalized headlines to get clicks. HardwareLuxx cites AMD exec David McAfee, General Manager of AMD Client Division, who said FSR 4.1 "isn't currently planned for RDNA 3.5…Currently the decision seems to be leaning towards 'no'." Videocardz re-reported the convo, but its piece title says "AMD FSR 4.1 to skip RDNA 3.5", which oversells what McAfee said. "To skip" makes for a more compelling click than "may skip." I understand and empathize with the clickbait practice, as all "free" sites including this one live on clicks. You recognize it as the cost of "free" and move on. Frank Azor then came out with a clarification, essentially backing up McAfee but leaning toward a more neutral stance, to say "no decision has been made." To its credit, Videocardz did update above piece with Azor's statement. Videocardz has a follow-up piece, re-reporting from Tom's Guide, with Jack Huynh's statement that "I did not say it's coming " with the usual corporatese about wanting to maintain high-quality bar, yada yada. So, somewhere between Azor and McAfee's blurbs. The most informative tidbit is a reporter's (Andreas Schilling) post within the Videocardz piece, stating that "technical aspects were then explained, such as the lower computing power of the integrated solutions and the memory bandwidth, which has implications for FSR 4.1." Benchmarks of the leaked INT8 FSR4 have shown it has high overhead, with marginal speedup over native res for RDNA 3. These were ran on dedicated GPUs with ample power. On iGPUs with much lower power envelope, and especially handhelds where battery life is key, the overhead is likely to be prohibitive. So, AMD's first statement (McAfee's) is on the nose, and 4.1 isn't likely to happen on iGPUs because they simply aren't fast enough to cover the overhead. No amount of pleading and petitioning from gamers is likely to change that immutable fact. Stepping back and viewing it from a larger perspective, gaming isn't a high priority for AMD. AI, and now local AI, are more important. Yet, on local AI, Gorgon Halo is still stuck at RDNA 3.5, with RDNA 5 only coming in Medusa Halo in '27. It indicates that AMD is resource-constrained, and the client division gets less resources than the bread-winner enterprise division. Reply
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