AMD wont compete with Nvidias high-end 5000 blackwell series

Not with RDNA4, but that does not meant they won’t compete with 5000 series at all, RDNA5 high end is apparently coming out 2025.

We have gotten the first “changes” in Linux drivers for RDNA4

and not be silly expensive

Sure, but if the demand exceeds the capacity AMD can get from TSMC, moving Zen 5c chiplet production to Samsung would make sense

How about HW and/or driver defects burning up your card? This has happened to nVidia multiple times now

run mesh shaders on their vertex shaders and pixel shaders

likely just using a compute shader, all shaders run on unified shader cores anyway (there is no separate hardware vertex / fragment shaders anymore)

Mesh Shaders have nothing really to do with shader compilation

Nice to see that the game at least works without Mesh Shaders, but obviously runs worse as performance benefits are the point of Mesh Shaders

They already have a separate accelerator architecture in CDNA. That said, they do still need RDNA for consoles and other APUs.