TechPowerUp's review has 4K tests at the highest settings with a 4090 and the improvement is very small over the 7800X3D and even your 5900X, likely because the scenarios are now GPU limited.Yeah looks like it should be a nice leap in performance from my 5900x. I'll wait for some 4K benchmarks to come out though, I'd like to see what performance i can actually expect in game instead of these arbitrary CPU limited scenarios.
The 9800X3D is selling out while the rest of the generation is gathering dust on shelves.
Maybe they will finally understand that actual performance uplifts=sales.
Thanks for that, I'll do more research but doesn't seem like it's worth buying a new CPU, motherboard, and RAM, at least for gaming.TechPowerUp's review has 4K tests at the highest settings with a 4090 and the improvement is very small over the 7800X3D and even your 5900X.
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-7-9800x3d/20.html
It seems like it's not worth upgrading to if you play at the highest resolution and settings for the best visual quality, but may be worth it if you play on more modest settings (lower resolution or with DLSS, on High settings, maybe RT off) to achieve higher framerates.
AMD might of just had one of the largest GPU blunders in recent memory. Holy shit. They pulled the announcement of the 9070 and 9070 XT... yet youtubers were allowed to show off that announcement for them. AMD let Youtubers undercut them in the dumbest way possible. What a complete shitshow on the GPU side. Jesus...
This doesn't help either. I get Nvidia does that exact same thing, but AMD has been trying to frame themselves as the "good guy" vs Intel and Nvidia for years now. To then just pull a move straight out of Nvidia's playbook.
I think that Videocardz may've misinterpreted the slide. It doesn't say that FSR 4 is available only for the 9070 series. It says that the "FSR 4 upgrade feature" is and works when games have only FSR 3.1 built in. It sounds like a feature to allow the 9070 series to use some features of FSR 4 (likely AI acceleration) even when games don't support greater than FSR 3.1. In other words, it may be a neat feature (albeit practically useless, as there are almost no FSR 3.1 games), but now the misinterpretation is going to spread even more because AMD missed the chance to clear it up hours ago.
This doesn't help either. I get Nvidia does that exact same thing, but AMD has been trying to frame themselves as the "good guy" vs Intel and Nvidia for years now. To then just pull a move straight out of Nvidia's playbook.
I think that Videocardz may've misinterpreted the slide. It doesn't say that FSR 4 is available only for the 9070 series. It says that the "FSR 4 upgrade feature" is and only when games have FSR 3.1 built in. This sounds like a feature to allow 9070 series cards to use some features of FSR 4 (likely AI acceleration) even when games don't support greater than FSR 3.1. In other words, it may be a neat feature (albeit practically useless, as there are almost no FSR 3.1 games), but now the misinterpretation is going to spread even more because AMD passed on the chance to clear all of this up hours ago.
It's a pretty big fumble, but I don't think that it's as bad as the launch and unlaunch of the 4080 12GB. Lisa Su was nowhere to be seen here, and she usually introduces graphics products, so they may be planning to hold a second event after Nvidia launches the 50 series. It's still disappointing, though.Personally, I think the fact that they completely skipped talking about the 9070 and let the Youtubers undercut them is pretty f***ing disastrous. It's ugly.
It's a pretty big fumble, but I don't think that it's as bad as the launch and unlaunch of the 4080 12GB. Lisa Su was nowhere to be seen here, and she usually introduces GPUs and FSR, so I'm guessing that they're planning for a second event. Maybe she's sick and they postponed it until later during CES. Who knows. It's still disappointing, though.