AMD has dismissed reports that its new Radeon RX 7900 XT and XTX (opens in new tab) graphics boards are suffering from a bug that impacts performance. AMD said that the new graphics chips’ shader pre-fetch hardware is fully functional as intended, despite rumours that had suggested otherwise.
Reports of bugs associated with RDNA 3’s shader pre-fetch hardware emerged when a firmware flag which appeared to switch off shader pre-fetch functionality (opens in new tab) was uncovered.
AMD has clarified that the functionality in question was a specific experimental feature as opposed to the overall shader pre-fetch hardware in a statement to Tom’s Hardware (opens in new tab).
“The code in question controls an experimental function which was not targeted for inclusion in these products and will not be enabled in this generation of product. This is a common industry practice to include experimental features to enable exploration and tuning for deployment in a future product generation,” AMD…