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This seems absolutely bizarre to me. If you're a) going to enter the low-to-middle end of market and b) do so decades after the major players, you really need t
by MikeBVaughn 4y ago
This seems absolutely bizarre to me. If you're a) going to enter the low-to-middle end of market and b) do so decades after the major players, you really need to differentiate yourself positively. As a customer, getting "Good enough" in that range of the GPU market has been dead simple for a long time, even including recent semiconductor shortages.
I already dealt with NVIDIA and ATI's teething pains in the late 90s/early 00's; why would I do it again? I'm nostalgic for a lot of things from my high school years, but keeping my fingers crossed while installing the ATI Radeon driver update I got off of a PC Gamer demo disk is not one of them.
- JonChesterfield 4y agoThey won't have decided to ship poor drivers. That'll be an emergent feature of the conditions under which the drivers were written plus their commercial decisions.
- MikeBVaughn 4y agoNaturally! "This is bizarre" is referring to the commercial decisions leading to this point. They seem to have chosen a hard market to crack, and then cornered themselves before even reaching the starting line.
- mrguyorama 4y agoThey seemed to mostly be hoping to provide stock and low end GPUs in an extremely tight, starved market. They probably would have done okay with that, but now that the market is suddenly flooded with mining GPUs...
- MikeBVaughn 4y agoThe weird thing is, even at the worst, I didn't really have trouble getting my hands on a GPU in that price range. I threw together a basic "play Red Dead Redemption 2 and racing sims" PC for my dad a year ago, and had no problems.