The only plausible explanation for withholding FSR 4 INT8 is that AMD wants to push RDNA 2 and RDNA 3 owners toward upgrading to RDNA 4. If that’s the strategy, it’s a poor one.
That explanation would make sense if we could still assume that AMD is interested in selling GPUs to gamers in the mid-to-far-future. Since they’d rather use pretty much all the capacity they have at TSMC to produce high-margin AI accelerator chips, that explanation doesn’t really make sense. I’m glad I took the opportunity to get the fastest AM4 chip, double my RAM to 32 GB and get myself a discounted RX 7900 XT with an aftermarket waterblock.
The way things are going, this may turn out to be my final gaming rig. I have other hobbies I can blow my money on. That equipment also tends to last longer and age better.
Even with the boom in enterprise GPU sales, one would think it’s shortsighted (in terms of risk management) to not try and strengthen their position in the consumer market.
The worst thing is that it doesn’t seem to be a hack and the solution pretty much work already.
Maybe they wanna let some time pass by so the RDNA 4 guys aren’t salty. Quite a few of them have probably done what I’d consider a sidegrade, just to get FSR 4.
That explanation would make sense if we could still assume that AMD is interested in selling GPUs to gamers in the mid-to-far-future. Since they’d rather use pretty much all the capacity they have at TSMC to produce high-margin AI accelerator chips, that explanation doesn’t really make sense. I’m glad I took the opportunity to get the fastest AM4 chip, double my RAM to 32 GB and get myself a discounted RX 7900 XT with an aftermarket waterblock.
The way things are going, this may turn out to be my final gaming rig. I have other hobbies I can blow my money on. That equipment also tends to last longer and age better.
Even with the boom in enterprise GPU sales, one would think it’s shortsighted (in terms of risk management) to not try and strengthen their position in the consumer market.
The worst thing is that it doesn’t seem to be a hack and the solution pretty much work already.
Maybe they wanna let some time pass by so the RDNA 4 guys aren’t salty. Quite a few of them have probably done what I’d consider a sidegrade, just to get FSR 4.
AMD has historically been pretty good about that, releasing the feature for newer cards* first then backporting.
Nvidia doesn’t lmao