RanceJustice
Supreme [H]ardness
- Joined
- Jun 9, 2003
- Messages
- 6,630
Add this to the litany of reasons (proprietary everything, GSync tax and proprietary-ness, sky high prices all round, aging like old milk instead of fine wine, hardware fuckups etc..) that Nvidia has to be reeled in. I know its difficult for us [H] types, but just bite the bullet and buy AMD even if they're not the absolute tip top of the e-peen stack, or things will never get better. In DejaWiz's categories, AMD is competitive and/or actually comes out on top at everything below Halo tier. The 570, 580, 590 are great cards (recently the [H] review showed the 590 refresh's viability) for their markets, and Vega 56 / 64 may not be a 1080Ti competitor, but against the 1070Ti and 1080, it offers an equal or better experience. Hopefully new GPUs built on the 7nm process such as Navi will compete favorably with the 2080 / 2080 Ti lineup; they don't need to totally overpower them, but if they can do equal or even come within 10-20% across the board yet come in at vastly cheaper prices, AMD should win the generation. Imagine if their highest end Navi card comes in somewhere between the 2080 and 2080 Ti, yet was available in good AIB versions for $500-700?!
AMD isn't perfect (I wish they'd allow disabling of the PSP within their Ryzen processors, verified), but they have been following a lot more consumer friendly path when it comes to both pricing and technology...which seems to be the opposite of Nvidia at just about every turn. If Nvidia thrives with the RTX 2000 series, that means their proprietary extensions or way of doing raytracing will gain a foothold, as well as letting them continue to jack prices. An overall failure of RTX 2000 combined with AMD sweeping in resurgent with quality products would be a great move in the right direction.
AMD isn't perfect (I wish they'd allow disabling of the PSP within their Ryzen processors, verified), but they have been following a lot more consumer friendly path when it comes to both pricing and technology...which seems to be the opposite of Nvidia at just about every turn. If Nvidia thrives with the RTX 2000 series, that means their proprietary extensions or way of doing raytracing will gain a foothold, as well as letting them continue to jack prices. An overall failure of RTX 2000 combined with AMD sweeping in resurgent with quality products would be a great move in the right direction.