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The original was posted on /r/amd by /u/aimlessdrivel on 2023-08-07 16:07:23+00:00.

RDNA3 (specifically MCM on GPUs) was a bold design choice intended to pave the way for Radeon’s future. AMD bet on chiplets and fast interconnects to power pretty much their whole stack, and across the board it doesn’t seem to have turned out so well. The 7900 cards are a substantial jump in hardware over the 6900s without particularly impressive performance increases. The 7700 and 7800 have taken ages to release and according to rumors, won’t be much better than their predecessors. Dual issue appears to have a very minimal effect on IPC, VR performance sucked at launch, and idle/multi-monitor power consumption is often too high. Plus now we hear AMD isn’t planning to compete with Nvidia at the high end next generation.

It’s too early to say for sure, but it seems like MCM and RDNA3 have been a bit of a blunder after the very competitive 6000 series. I doubt AMD will reverse course on chiplet GPUs, do you think this is a bit of a Bulldozer situation? They took a big swing at a long-term strategy, but haven’t executed very well and as a result are now quite far behind their competitor. RDNA3 itself doesn’t seem too different from RDNA2 architecturally, which means AMD hasn’t made real IPC improvements gen-on-gen. If they can’t figure out the major issues with MCM in the next few years, do you think RDNA3 will mark the start of a dark period for AMD’s GPU division?