Rumormill- 7900xt/7900xtx A0 Stepping Bug

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I stumbled across an article stating that the new RX 7000 series cards are reporting A0 stepping via vbios for these cards and that might be a root cause of lowered performance vs what was expected out of the 7000 series cards (here). It was also stated that due to this being a hardware issue, that it would take a respin of the silicon to fix the issue which is rumored to be RDNA 3+. At some level it seems like people grasping for an answer to why the 7000 series cards didn't perform up to their expectations, but at the same time there are various reports of clock speeds being all over the place which (if accurate) lends credence to the rumor (respin). I also found a thread on the AMD community forums where one user had asked AMD directly with no answer as of yet (here). Does anyone have any thoughts or knowledge on the issue? I was so excited to purchase a 7900 xtx and now even though its all just speculation there is that slight bit of doubt in the back of my mind.