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240 lines
9.0 KiB
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last week AMD launched their new
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graphics cards and I already reviewed
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the RX 7900 XTX so today I'm going to
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talk about this RX 7900 XT now I did not
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have a chance to test the reference card
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but I do have this tough gaming model
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from Asus and while I do think that AMD
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has done a great job at creating
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high-end graphics cards and bringing
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some well needed competition to the
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market I also think that there are
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plenty of things that still need a bit
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of work and that should be improved so
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I'm going to take a bit of a different
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approach today and I'm going to talk
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about my issues with this 7900 XT let's
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most obvious issues I had with this card
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is its name the RX 7900 XT sounds very
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similar to the 7900 XTX even though when
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we look at the specs you can see that
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they are vastly different the XCX has
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more cores higher clock speeds more
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memory and a bigger memory bus than the
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XT and I don't think that removing One X
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at the end of the product name is enough
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to distinguish and obviously lower tier
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card from a higher tier one it just
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causes a lot of confusion especially for
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the less informed consumers that might
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think that they are buying a very
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similar product for a hundred dollars
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less which is definitely not the case
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here now Nvidia received a lot of
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criticism for their 4086 16 gig and 4080
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12 gig cards and AMD here is pretty much
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doing the same thing the XT is more than
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15 slower than the xdx and they should
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have called it a 7800 XT or at least a
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7900 without any X's just to make it a
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bit more obvious to everyone and that
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brings me to my next issue the relative
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performance because the XT is priced so
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closely to the XTX its performance
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should also be at a close distance
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compared to the xdx and that is
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definitely not the case here so the xt's
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recommended price is only 10 lower than
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the xdx but when it comes to Performance
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the XTX is 16 faster than the XD and
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keep in mind I was using the relatively
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fast third-party version of the XT so
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for 100 more you can get a card that is
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16 faster and if you already decided to
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spend 900 on a GPU upgrading to dxdx for
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a hundred dollars more just seems like a
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logical choice and that pressure from
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the relative performance is a bit of a
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shame because in absolute terms the XT
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is a pretty powerful chip at 1440p
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resolution it shows a great High refresh
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rate experience in every game I've
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tested and most games will easily run at
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144 FPS or above but even the heaviest
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titles like Dying Light 2 and cyberpunk
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2077 for example will get pretty close
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to that at 4K resolution the XC does
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well offering that 4K 120 experience in
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lighter titles and 60-ish FPS or above
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in heavier games amd's FSR has also been
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adopted by a lot of game developers so
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for the titles that do support it this
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7900 XT is actually a very capable 4K
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gaming card as well but should you buy a
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much stronger XTX for 100 more
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absolutely now the next issue I had was
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performance inconsistency when testing
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Call of Duty Modern Warfare we were
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getting really inconsistent results so
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one moment the XT would be running at
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around 2400 megahertz showing FPS
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numbers that kind of fall in line with
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other cards but during some other runs
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it would suddenly boost much higher
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somewhere closer to 2 900 megahertz
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which would result in a much higher
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average FPS and which would put it above
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the RTX 4090 and the 7900 XDS and there
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was absolutely no logic behind it so it
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was the same system same settings no
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updates in between the CPU wasn't
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throttling or anything else that we can
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think of actually so every time we
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reboot the PC it would act differently
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for no clear reason now in this
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particular game it doesn't really matter
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as much because in the worst case
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scenario it was close to an RTX 4090 and
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in the best case scenario it was
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actually beating it which is definitely
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not bad for a GPU that costs half as
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much but seeing this inconsistent
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Behavior always causes doubt whether
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everything is working well as it should
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and what kind of an impact does it have
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in titles where this card was not doing
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as well but AMD has been on top of this
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since I mentioned it and they are trying
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to figure it out but there are no clear
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answers just yet now hopefully they will
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come up with a driver update that will
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stabilize this situation a bit more now
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my next issue is a really noticeable one
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coil line in my review of the XTX I
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mentioned that my reference card had
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some coil line now coil wine is mostly
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sample specific and then it is often
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specific to certain games or super high
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FPS gameplay but the XT here had a
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noticeable amount of coal wine regularly
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and since the launch a lot of reviewers
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as well as people who bought their cards
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frequently mentioned coil wine too both
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in reference cards as well as third
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party cards so this tough gaming from
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Asus doesn't always whine but it does
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sit pretty frequently and since the
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sound often changes depending on what's
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going on with your PC it is way more
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noticeable than if it was just a
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consistent tone I did manage to test the
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thermal and noise performance at one
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point where it wasn't whining and this
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oversized tough cooler performed
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extremely well barely going over 50
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degrees with almost no noise at all and
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even though this should be a great
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cooler design it is only quiet sometimes
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the other times it is just super whiny
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and given the fact that these reports
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are so widespread with all sorts of
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Radeon cards it just feels like this is
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something that AMD really needs to work
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on my next issue is the power
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consumption especially in idle when
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having multiple monitors connected to
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your cart if I just connect a single
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monitor power consumption is completely
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fine with a single watt of a difference
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between the 4080 and this 7900 XD but
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when connecting two monitors so I had
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one 4K 120 hertz one and one 4K 60hz one
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the power consumption on the XT went up
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by a lot it was 15 watts higher than the
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4080 and I would say that is a
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significant change now depending on how
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much you pay for your electricity and
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how many hours you have your monitors on
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per day this could really add up quickly
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now supposedly this should get fixed
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with the next driver so I will put an
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update in the comment under this video
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once I learn more about this
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but perhaps the biggest issue right now
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is the supply and pricing before these
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cards launch there were plenty of posts
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saying that there should be plenty of
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stock and that the prices should be as
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promised but in reality the supply so
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far hasn't been as good it will vary per
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region but if I look at the Netherlands
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I haven't seen a single xdx listed at
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any reputable retailer and even the XT
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which had more critical reviews overall
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has been really hard to find most shops
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I spoke to told me that they have no
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clear indication of stock on any Radeon
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cards at this point and the couple shops
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that did list the XT seem to have very
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limited stock and they're selling them
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at very high prices so right now the
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cheapest one I can find is at 1300 Euros
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which is 250 euros over the MSRP and
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only about 150 Euros less than a 4080
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and a 4080 is faster has stronger Ray
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tracing performance and it is more power
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efficient and I think all this was much
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worse because of the hype that followed
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the AMD launch and the belief that there
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might actually be some stock or that the
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prices might actually stay down anyway
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the launch was definitely a bit shaky
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but it is important to remember that
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most of the things I mentioned today are
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absolutely fixable and that was the
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reason of making this video because I
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know know that AMD cares about criticism
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and that they do want to fix things for
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the end users at least the things that
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can be fixed because as I said before
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the absolute performance of this 7900 XT
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is quite good and the only way to fix
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their relative performance is to lower
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the price because if it gets
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significantly cheaper I'm sure that most
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of us just would not care about the
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confusing name business or the fact that
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it is boosting a bit higher one day and
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then a bit lower the next now the coil
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wine is a bit more complicated to fix
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especially for the cars that already
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love the factory but for future batches
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that too is definitely fixable and they
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definitely should fix it because the GPU
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Market is so competitive and even a
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single downside like coil wine for
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example can make a big difference at the
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end of the day now that is all I have
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for today I hope this video was
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interesting enough let me know in the
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comments down below what are your
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thoughts about the XD and if you want to
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