Hello James hope you all are doing well over at AMD ^.^
amazing year since Ryzen was launched and now we have Ryzen 2 (I think the naming could have been better orchestrated in regards to Ryzen 1000 would be called Ryzen 1xxx, Ryzen 2 would be called Ryzen 2xxx and so forth less likely to potentially confuse people)
not trying to bait or flame any questions of course, just want this put out there before any reading is done, thank you however for being here for folks to ask questions and get some burning questions answered ^.^
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My question are, is there any plans to have RX 500 also on 12nm (refresh coming from the RX 5xx which currently use GF 14nm)
Also in this regard, are there any plans to have a direct replacement of my much loved but as of yet not replaced Radeon 7870 (1280 shaders 256 bit memory bus and whatever TMU/ROP is deemed "appropriate" ? )
^ when are we likely to see closer to MSRP for RX 500/Vega seeded to the market for us gamer types that have been wanting to upgrade for awhile and cannot either find any model or the ones that are out there are quite a bit above pricing they should be.
along this context, with the new Ryzen 2xxx models such as Ryzen 2600-2700 even though was claimed to be slightly lower cost I have been tracking the pricing of them for a new build hopefully in the near future and the pricing of them seem to often be above what they should be (Canada) whereas the day of launch they were within ~$5 of price they should be, and since this point the Ryzen 1xxx pricing has been all over the place which is odd...us Canadians are computer users as well ^.^
I really wish there was more control on what resellers can charge for "fair pricing" but alas little can be done about this without killing any potential places to buy/list the products.
Not sure why AIB can slap a dinky little cooler on their "custom cards" that they have used many times before and jump the price over reference by $25-$100 however, seems there needs to be at lest some "quartermaster" in the mix to make sure everyone is "being fair"
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why does AMD not offer to sell the AIB cards directly from AMD website (have not noticed this of course, but there were many generations in the past the reference coolers were amazing looking vs the ones that were on store shelves, is a pride thing) ?
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A suggestion/question, are there plans to allow/enable more direct control of GPU clock/voltage settings with new Radeon drivers, what I mean is through my experience having went through driver after driver
some of them seem to be more able to allow the user full control of constant clock/voltages whereas other ones no matter what you do you cannot control these
so for example, watch a youtube video it will automatically through the clock into high 3d settings and highest voltage number even when it does not need it
whereas when play a game it will sometimes remember what you wanted it set to and other times it will auto jump the clocks/voltages for numbers you did not tell it to use.
if there is a idle clock, mid (low 3d) clock and a high performance clock, it would be nice if there was the ability to control this just like it appears that Ryzen is now allowing for the CPU side
so the question is, are there any plans for future Radeon GPU drivers to allow an even finer granularity of clock/voltage settings or at the very least to "force" to maintain the settings the user selects?