| EricHiggin said: I've got a couple buddies who've been AMD/Radeon fans for as long as I can remember, and while they have Ryzen rigs now, they kept their existing Radeon cards for a couple years, and they both bought RTX 2000 cards last boxing day. Neither was willing to wait for Navi and neither says they plan to move back to Radeon anytime soon, even after the 5700 information we have now. There isn't much point in AMD trying to beat Nvidia for the next while. They might as well make bank and PC gamers can either change their minds and save a few bucks, or learn a hard lesson eventually. |
Basically been my messaging for over a year now, that it isn't worth waiting for Navi as it's just a Polaris replacement, aka. Mid-range part.
| JEMC said: Contrary to Intel, Nvidia has no real reason to stop their tech advancements, because their main focus isn't gaming, but workstations, an area that is still demanding more and more compute power. That's why they usually reveal their new architectures showing their compute and workstation parts, and then the cut down gaming versions. |
nVidia also has a big incentive to sell more hardware to it's own customers... Added value incentives like Ray Tracing is just one tactic for that.
| JEMC said: ^Indeed, it looks more like a new range of cards than just a refresh. |
nVidia is certainly not going to allow AMD to garner any advantages it seems.
AMD's response will be that they will do the same (I.E. 16Gbps GDDR6 vs 14Gbps) and higher clocks thanks to maturing manufacturing... Or price drops across the entire Navi Lineup.
What I really am looking forwards to though is a half-height, single slot GPU that is a step up over the Geforce 1030 for my Core 2 Quad rig.
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