Sorry if I’m not the first to bring this up. It seems like a simple enough solution.

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    I mean, you could also say they’ll stop price gouging when competitors can meet their quality and support level. What’s the alternative?

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      The reason nvidia has the r&d budget it has is because you buy their cards. AMD is just now matching them on that but they used to have about half the resources.

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        I mean, I buy my cards second hand because I’m dirt poor, but I still want the best option for my money. It’s a hard sell to convince people to buy inferior products to expand the market.

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          Except that most of nvidia’s features are borderline gimmicks or will not have a long lifespan. DLSS will eventually die and we’ll all use FSR just like it happened with gsync vs freesync. Raytracing is very taxing still for all cards in all brands to be worth it. RTX voice (just like AMD noise supression) is not something that useful (I don’t even want it). What else do you have that could make an nvidia card “superior”? The only thing I can think of is that the most recent nvidia cards are way more energy efficient than amd’s.

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            The only thing I can think of is that the most recent nvidia cards are way more energy efficient than amd’s.

            I think power draw is so close to even right now, that it’s not worth talking about.

            edit: yep, I was wrong.

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              I just checked and it’s not thaaat close but yeah, it’s not a deal braker. From what I saw, the 7800xt consumes about 60w more than a 4070 so nvidia’s certainly better.

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                You are right, I checked some power draw benchmarks & it draws 45-50W more in regular gaming, it’s quite shocking ~

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      AMD is a lot better than before both in terms of hardware and software, far better in fact. For people that don’t buy the top of the line card every other year AMD is a real alternative, more so than in a long time.

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        I love my 6900XTH, killer chip. if you don’t expect ray tracing it’s an absolute monster. I bought it because it was what was available on the shelf but ultimately I feel like it was the best choice for me. I don’t think I’d buy another nvidia card for a while with the shit they’ve pulled, and I’d previously bought dozens of EVGA nvidia cards.

        I just wish FSR2 could be improved to reduce ghosting. it’s already OK so any improvement would make it very good.