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We really need more competition in the GPU space. Nvidia's release strategy seems designed to exploit the mid-tier gamers.
by paulryanrogers 3y ago
We really need more competition in the GPU space. Nvidia's release strategy seems designed to exploit the mid-tier gamers.
- nntwozz 3y agoIntel is trying, specifically at the mid-tier. These look good though as long as availability doesn't become a problem.
- ronsor 3y ago> as long as availability doesn't become a problem And you know it will, within minutes of release.
- throw9away6 3y agoIntel has worse drivers than ati hence the discount
- satiric 3y agoAMD seems to be providing good alternatives. Arguably the 6600XT or the 6700XT are better value than the 4060. And the 6800XT is a good alternative to the 16GB 4060Ti. And AMD's cards are actually purchaseable right now.
- wlesieutre 3y ago6750 XT was on sale a few weeks ago for $330 - $20 rebate and came with a copy of The Last of Us. Guessing it'll be a while before we see similar deals on Nvidia cards since so many people are determined to buy Nvidia over AMD for reasons I don't understand. Yes the raytracing performance is better, but not enough to justify what they're charging.
- pseudo0 3y agoJust using the card for gaming? Absolutely go with AMD. But most of the ML libraries and tooling is built on top of CUDA, so getting things to work with an AMD card can be annoying and have worse performance despite better hardware specs on paper.
- wlesieutre 3y agoAnd yet the Steam hardware survey has Nvidia at 76% compared to AMD at 15%. Most of that isn't because of ML performance.
- pseudo0 3y agoYeah, a lot of that is inertia. Most people don't upgrade video cards all that frequently which explains the popularity of the GTX 1650 (2019), GTX 1060 and 1070 (2016), etc. Those cards still work reasonably well for people who don't need bleeding edge performance or ray tracing. I'd expect their market share to improve over the next couple years as some of those cards age out of circulation.
- throw9away6 3y agoAvailability is a huge problem for ati cards. There weren’t that many out there in the last 2 years where nvida vendors at least had a bunch of overpriced options
- jacooper 3y agoDLSS, NVENC, CUDA, better drivers(windows) and more. I use a 6700xt, and I enjoy its better support on Linux, but absolutely not how its not suoported by ROCm, while a 3050 is fully supported by Cuda and can run any AI or professional program. There are many reasons not to get an AMD card.
- aaronblohowiak 3y agoIs there a power difference?
- paulryanrogers 3y agoThat's my concern as well. Though if I'm honest I don't game for more than a few hours a week, tops.
- balls187 3y agoAccording to Steam hardware, the majority of gamers are running their games at 1080p. The graphics card distribution pretty spread out across a number of generations. https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/ https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/
- throaway920181 3y agoA lot of gamers chase FPS to go with their high refresh rate monitors, and 1080p is a sweet spot for that right now.
- stubish 3y agoThese are the latest generation, not mid-tier. Mid-tier is your 3060 IMO, and will probably become 3080 with the release of these new cards. That mid-tier 3060 gives you 4k gaming or HD gaming at 60+Hz refresh. I think the release strategy seems to mostly work, keeping mid-tier gaming rigs on par or better with latest gen consoles and about a 3-5 year lifespan. PC gaming would not exist if the pricing was exploitive, because the bulk of the market would switch to consoles even though the games themselves are more expensive.