No 16-pin 12VHPWR for Future Radeon RX 7000 AMD Confirms
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Ryu5uzaku
Tbh RT is still enjoyable even on 6xxx series so 7xxx should be fine. It's not same as nvidia but it's good enough.
brogadget
single 8 pin PCI connector cable can handle 150W officially, but with good cable, 300W, no big deal, so for my old AMD R9 280x, I have approx. 2-3x security. Connector temp. never >ambient to 50°C, even with evc, OC, modded bios etc., what ever.
Now do the math for 4090....happy AMD, good decision...
btw: smart AMD, clever announcement, just at the right time...
pegasus1
The only RT game ive played is Metro EE and to be honest im not 100% sold on the effect, some locations look amazing while other appear a bit over cooked.
Undying
Metro EE also runs fine on amd cards. Even 6700xt can run it at 1440p. Where amd falls behind is Cyberpunk, Dying Light 2 and Control. Those are the games where rt makes a difference but honestly even look good without it.
cucaulay malkin
Yup it runs fine in metro ee and looks amazing
cucaulay malkin
One rt effect is fine for rx6000,two is a little tough,3-4 unplayable
mikeysg
Pretty happy with AMD's confirmation of sticking with older standard PCIe connectors, wise move on their part. I don't wanna pay good money for a GPU and be a guinea pig at the same time, that doesn't appeal to me....at all!
pegasus1
I run MEE at 4k on a 6900XT, I don't own any of the other games. I'm currently splitting my time between FIFA23 and GT7 on PS5 and DCS and Steal Div2 on PC.
Undying
Only game i play right now that has rt is spiderman and again it runs fine on amd cards.
chispy
Glad AMD made the right and correct decision. " if it's not broken , don't try to fix it " 😛
Ryu5uzaku
Agree. I have tried some games lol.
Rich_Guy
Can't be launching soon then, unless they were never going to use the new 16-pin, as if they were, they'd have already been in production wouldn't they ?, so the 16-pin power connector would already be on the PCBs.
Venix
Well even if they where thinking about it , at this point is free positive publicity to not go with it and gain community points as good guy AMD they got handed that in the platter.
sykozis
Chances are they never intended to use the new connector. Doesn't really make a lot of sense to do so before spec compliant power supplies are widely available anyway.
Reddoguk
Good i really dislike that awful 12+4 connector.
Bad news is that ATX 3.0 PSUs will need a 16 pin to 3 x 8 pin converter or come with both but at a increased cost i bet.
Nopa
Smart choice from AMD. Now make them suffer in RT and smash the living hell out of them in Raster.
mikeysg
For that to happen, I suspect the RX 7900 XTX/7950 XT would be the one to do it, I suspect the RX 7900 XT is good enough to take on, and hopefully beat, the RTX 4080 16GB. As long as RT performance is a fair bit better than on the RX 6900 XT, and raster performance is way better than the 6900 XT I have, I'd be all over it like a bad rash.....after I get back from Canada that is.
Nopa
The way I see it: 7900 XT/XTX will take care of 4090 in both RT and Raster then NVIDIA is forced to release 4090 Ti only to be taken care by 7950 XT/XTX a few months later. If NVIDIA couldn't get over letting AMD be ahead then they'll proceed to bring out a Titan with 48GB GDDR7 to finish off 7950 XT/XTX once and for all.
Hopper/Blackwell won't be materialize until Sep-Oct 2024 so 2 years are plenty of time to get all of the above done.
pegasus1
You mean you are making either a guess, the same as everybody else, or its just wishful thinking as brand loyalty is important to you.
Nopa
A guess. I don't care about brand loyalty, only performance is the priority for me.
