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My favorites were the 512bit bus monsters from 20 years ago. With raytracing being so memory and power intensive it kills me that we haven't gotten a monster like the 8800gtx again
The Radeon 290 / 390 had 512-bit. I had a 390, it was a beast, better than the Fury cards and Maxwell. Outlasted everything, especially when vulkan and dx12 started taking off.
GCN was NEVER BAD. The only thing wrong with GCN was AMD's drivers and optimization. Vega has the same functionality as RDNA1, but never got the optimization of RDNA1. EXCEPT if you install the NimeZ drivers, then you know AMD started deliberately sandbagging their drivers to sell RDNA.
It seems that today the best way to use GCN is using Linux, because you get support for the entire GCN stack AND real features like ReBar and driver optimization because you're using vulkan over DXVK.
That's right the 390 was a 512 bit card. And it was a beast. I had a 7970 that lasted for a long time as a capable GPU.