If AMD’s ray tracing solution doesn’t take as much on-die space as Nvidia’s, that leaves the Radeon cards more room to cram in traditional rendering hardware—shaders, ROPs, geometry pipelines, et cetera. And if AMD can indeed load up Big Navi with more of that traditional hardware—especially now that CDNA’s arrival means AMD can jettison compute-specific extras from RDNA to focus squarely on gaming—it could indeed potentially bring a big fight to Nvidia, and perhaps even more so at the more common resolutions, where Ampere’s scaling isn’t quite as potent.

Good point which I've been bringing up in the past. AMD are less into adding ASICs and more into improving raw processing power. I consider it a better strategy than what Nvida does.

And they said in the past they expect RDNA 2 to be very competitive so this is very good news.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismIs this Socket AM5?

It's the same AM4.

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Quoting: WJMazepasI have a Ryzen 7 2700 and honestly i dont see reason for upgrading now. I havent seen a game that made my CPU suffer

Same, CPU was never a bottleneck for me with 3900X.

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I wonder who made the casing design for their stock Navi 2 GPUs. May be Sapphire?

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Quoting: GuestThat "simple BIOS upgrade" is going to be not so simple for newcomers to AMD unless the motherboards allow for a BIOS upgrade without CPU.

I think Asrock motherboards do. See also: https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/faq/pa-100 [External Link]

AMD offers special processor loan kit for some of such cases when motherboard doesn't have USB update feature.

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Quoting: loggeStill here with my 9 3900X - not that it feels old, but "Single Thread performance" might be the killer over Intel

May be it's just me, but I didn't have any issues with single thread performance of 3900X. I wouldn't mind a better CPU, but to pay $550 for that is a lot. Plus modern games today are multithreaded, so single thread performance for gaming is not as critical anymore.

If I can sell 3900X for a good price, then may be getting newer one is better, but that would leave me without any CPU for some time.

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Quoting: MadeanaccounttocommentI read an article yesterday saying not until Zen 3+ as the 500 series boards were designed for Zen 3.

Good to know, thanks.

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Aren't they also making newer motherboards for Zen 3?

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I think Zen 3 are great CPUs, but for those who already have high end Zen 2 ones, the improvement probably won't be worth the price. I might skip it and wait for DDR5 memory to come out before doing major CPU upgrade.

Upcoming GPUs on the other hand is something I'm looking forward to.

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It's inappropriate to say that it's something good. GOG aren't supporting Linux well, I agree. But the whole situation is bad.

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