Using FidelityFX Super Resolution In The Riftbreaker [RX 6700 XT, 4k, Ultra]

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Watch Adam chat with Keith about AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution (or FSR) while trying it out in The Riftbreaker demo on an all AMD gaming PC featuring a Ryzen 7 5800X and Radeon RX 6700 XT. Watch the live build of the PC here: -This gameplay video is sponsored by AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution, a cutting-edge upscaling tech meant to deliver more than two times the frame rates on more than 100 Radeon GPUs and APUs. It's available right now in select titles, but head over to AMD. com/FSR and let them know which games you'd like to see FSR enabled in. crowdmade. com/collections/pcworld crzyces1: Id like to see it enabled in every game. Id also like the GPUs to drop to a level that makes them _almost_ as good a value at MSRP as the consoles. Mining is going to slow down, and making people choose between a $500 console or a $1300 1440p high graphics PC is going to kill the entry level market that simply doesnt have the money for a $400 starter GPU, while midrange gamers who are used to 1440p high 100 FPS gaming wont be willing to pay $600 for a mid-range GPU. Just because a GPU performs like a high-end card from -FIVE-Fricken-Years- ago doesnt make it high end now. Im telling ya, after the first couple of small waves of people who initially pay the outrageous scalping prices, then another wave of people willing to pay MSRP once they reach that area, the market will dry up. The first reason will be people not having the extra money for a midrange card and not seeing any value in the low-end 6600XT. The second reason will be people who dont see value in $500 for the actual midrange cards, even if they have the money, especially when they can just grab a Series X for the same price and just wait for Intel and the next generation of cards. And please stop the nonsense about gddr prices doubling to $9/GB since AMD, Apple, Intel, Nvidia and numerous other companies whose name I forget off the top of my head all get rebates of 40-65% back from Micron and Samsung depending on the amount they buy.
No one expects you to get console margins (I believe AMD makes about 5% on the console chips, but 60%+ on GPUs is just gross. Having insider talks with Nvidia about eliminating low-end cards and just making 30-60FPS 720p APUs isnt acceptable. RTG isnt Nvidia when it comes to name recognition. Theres a reason why none of your cards ever show up on the Steam top 20 chart. Its because you need 4 or 5 gens of great price to performance cards that dont have issues. You had 2, both of which addressed the mid-range and upper mid-range at best during release.
When your diehard fans, the ones who bought your chips when they needed fricken 300watt heatsink dissipation at stock; or your GPUs when they were essentially re-brands 3 gens in a row with a little more RAM without much of a price break. The ppl that bought Zen in droves when reviewers were saying that 4/8 thread chips would still work great for gaming in 5 years and Zen was fighting with almost every RAM kit you tried to run over 2100MHz; start complaining, choosing -NOT- to buy 6800s at launch from your website when they actually could have gotten them at MSRP (Thats what I did) because the only card they saw value in was the 6800XT, and recommending other people just wait, buy consoles, or possibly Nvidia or Intel instead (And recommending 10850ks and 118/00/50ks over 5800s and 5950s just to make a point, your company is making to many mistakes.
Like I said, mining isnt going to be this prevalent much longer, and your estimates of 40% gamers/10% miners picking up your cards should be flipped to 10% gamers at BEST. Hopefully Im wrong, and AMD/RTG drops the MSRP $100 or so across the board in a couple of months (Id say the market will have dropped off to China levels by the end of September, with literally a couple of million current gen cards hitting the used market, but if AMD tries to hold these prices the negative feedback along with a huge drop in sales is going to come back to bite them in the ass, and it could take a couple of generations to recover. Its almost like they dont want any mindshare with the normal PC gamer that just buys a PC off the shelf, or the first time upgraders who are going to swap out the video card from the Origin PC they bought last year.
Id wish them luck, but I dont want them to succeed at these prices. The free money people were getting from unemployment will stop. The courts already told the Biden Admin that they could not extend the moratorium on evictions which puts an estimated 2. 3 million households on the eviction block, a million of which havent paid rent in 6 months +. That means disposable income is down, like your sales will be at $500 USD for a 40 CU card, never mind $400 for a 32 CU one. Absolutely ridiculous, FSR or not. Im both stunned and disgusted. Id say let down, but being as huge corporation, Im not really surprised. I bought AMD stock at $9/share and -I- want you to be very profitable long-term since I plan on holding until retirement, and this is not the way to do it.
Date: 2022-03-15

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