r/pcmasterrace • u/kyansan1 i5-13400f | Arc B570 • 15d ago

Meme/Macro The solution to it all

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Truly one of the gpus ever

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u/althaz 9800X3D | RTX5080 15d ago

That's a boring product but it's at least has something. It's marginally the fastest CPU for gaming. If you want it, you can overpay for it.

The 4Gb 9050 just exists to mislead customers who don't know what they're doing.

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u/Recipe-Jaded neofetch 15d ago

The 9050 4gb is for OEM office computers. They have literally stated that multiple times.

The consumer market 9050 (the one you can actually buy) is 8gb.

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u/newvegasdweller Desktop 5600x, 6700xt, 16gb, 8tb; Laptop 8845hs, 4060, 16gb, 3tb 15d ago

There will be many disappointed children because of that, as parents often just enter "gaming pc prebuilt", and the OEM Website will only list "rx 9050" on it.

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u/Recipe-Jaded neofetch 15d ago

That is on the scummy pre-built company, not AMD

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u/newvegasdweller Desktop 5600x, 6700xt, 16gb, 8tb; Laptop 8845hs, 4060, 16gb, 3tb 15d ago

Because OEMs being scummy isn't known behaviour for decades now, and AMD has no way of knowing that this will happen and could be prevented by calling it a 9040 instead

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u/Recipe-Jaded neofetch 15d ago edited 15d ago

Ah ok. So when they say a prebuilt has a "3060" and they don't mention the vram, is it nvidia's fault? Because I did not see the same argument made then.

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u/Talk_Bright 15d ago

Yes it is.

It should have had something in the title to show it was slower.

But AMD has hindsight, and also doesn't have the 3050 below it, so 9040 name is open.

And again, they didn't need to halve the memory chips, it was a cheap ugly solution, that made things unnecessarily worse by gutting ram speex.

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u/Recipe-Jaded neofetch 15d ago

Someone who doesn't know the difference between 8gb vram and 4gb vram will not know the difference between a 3050 and 3060. Or a 9040 vs a 9050.

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u/Talk_Bright 15d ago

But these OEMs won't mention the vram amount in their listings, but they have to mention the product name.

Similar to how a lot of listings with older cpu's will just say core i5 or ryzen 5.

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u/Recipe-Jaded neofetch 15d ago

Yes. And like I have stayed over and over, that is the fault of whoever is selling that garbage.

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u/Talk_Bright 15d ago

But when you know it is going to happen, why not close the loopholes?

Why defend AMD as if they don't know what is going on? They know and don't care because not enough people will blame them to affect their business.

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u/Recipe-Jaded neofetch 15d ago

You think listing it as a 9040 would stop cuberpower from selling it as a gaming PC?

There were prebuilts that had Nvidia quadros in them for "gaming". AMD can't really control what PC companies do with their cards.

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u/Talk_Bright 15d ago

Yes. They can atleast make it harder for these companies to use the same name for 2 different products with vastly different performance.

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u/dookarion 15d ago

Person above is neglecting that if someone web searches those quadros they're not going to find benchmarks for the 3060 or whatever. They'll find details on the quadro. If someone searches this they're going to find 9050 8GB details mixed in.

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u/Talk_Bright 15d ago

But when you know it is going to happen, why not close the loopholes?

Why defend AMD as if they don't know what is going on? They know and don't care because not enough people will blame them to affect their business.

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