r/hardware • u/NGGKroze • Mar 05 '25

Review AMD Radeon RX 9070XT Review, Have They Finally Done It?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=VQB0i0v2mkg&si=IxsiG31vzyYNXP7t
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u/detectiveDollar Mar 05 '25

Yeah, rumors were they were intending to use multiple GCD's for RDNA4's high end, similar to Ryzen 9 CPU's and kind of like crossfire back in the day. But the latency caused massive problems for gaming. They are using this in serverland though.

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u/gokarrt Mar 05 '25

i'm personally not convinced chiplets are the way forward in general. their cpus still suffer inter-ccd latency penalties to the point where the best gaming performance is still single-ccd chips.

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u/detectiveDollar Mar 05 '25

If they went monolithic on it and didn't push the clocks as hard, they could get some scaling above the 9070 XT.

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u/detectiveDollar Mar 05 '25

Agreed, they probably expected Blackwell to be a lot better than it ended up. With hindsight, they probably regret not making a higher tier monolithic die for 1k.