Hassan Mujtaba writes, "The first AMD Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards were unveiled just a few hours ago and they look stunning given their specifications, performance numbers and especially, the prices. But the announcement was lacking a key element which we were all hoping to get more details which is the ray-tracing performance of the next-generation RDNA 2 lineup."
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
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I really want to know how well or badly their Ray Tracing scales. This is their 72 Core variant, so as shown here it can match and slightly surpass the RTX 3070, and in other benchmarks, it basically matches the 2080 Ti (within margin of error).
So the GPU is on par, possibly slightly better than the RTX 3080, but the Raytracing component ranges from RTX 2080 ti / RTX 3060 - RTX 3070 performance. It's not bad for their first attempt, but it's a clear win for NVIDIA here across the board, because NVIDIA's cards are using 30% - 40% less CUs and cores, and still matching AMD's best in this one area, add DLSS (in the handful of games that support it) and the Ray Tracing battle clearly goes to NVIDIA.
AMD still released some amazing cards, so it really comes down to AVAILABILITY, if you care about Ray Tracing, Price, and if more games will start to support DLSS and AMD's answer to it. AMD by all means should have the win in availability because they've been on this node for a while now, CPU and GPU, it's can they keep up with supply and demand. Ray Tracing is clearly NVIDIA's win, and price is kind of mid-range and lower battle which we haven't seen from either company yet so more from that later. So AMD really needs to get an answer to DLSS and soon (a talk about it at the beginning of the year), if they can do that they can get around 5% more marketshare back from NVIDIA, and get ready for an even bigger battle when AMD has 5nm GPUs and NVIDIA just gets to 7nm.
I think they could've released cards with 0 ray-tracing ability and I'd still be compelled to buy it over Nvidia this time around simply because it's slightly cheaper and with a massive 6GB VRAM advantage. I've never owned a single AMD GPU in my life. I read the drivers are terrible.
So long as major reviewers aren't boiling AMD alive with drivers issues again at launch, I think AMD is getting my money this time around.
One things for sure everyone was getting sick and tired of only reading that so and so was tested on 980ti,1080ti,2080ti etc now they can happily test on 6800xt 6900xt etc as their high end tests.
The new amd cards are excellent high ends no doubt and as usual they will get better. The Nvidia shills on twitter have been in total meltdown. What's even better is if you pair these cards with the new ryzen chips. Amd is back, and from rdna 3 hopefully they are on top.
I dont care shit about things they say. I care about actual benchmarks. AMD has bad impressions to me about good specs but shitty performance