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JEMC said:

Pemalite said:

nVidia is just dominating right now. And they deserve their success.

It's hard for AMD to be competitive against Intel *and* nVidia, both companies are bigger than AMD.
Plus we are still seeing the effects of the old GPU division plan. Hopefully with the Radeon group becoming it's own seperate entity again we might see a shift on that front over the next few years.

The rebadges need to stop though. Enough is enough. Haha

Well, my surprise comes from the fact that a $699 card is selling better than a $199-249 one. Usually, low and mid range cards sell much better than high end stuff.

And I agree on the rebadging thing. The whole HD7xx0 => R 2xx => R3xx rebadges were ridiculous, and they are doing it again with the 5xx series being the same 4xx products all around.

You are right, low-end and mid-range usually have higher volumes... But considering AMD doesn't have a high-end product at all, nVidia was able to steal the entire high-end market for themselves. Like. All of it.

AMD's RX 580 is competing against the Geforce 1060 which is stiff competition as it is.
The Geforce 1080 has been such a strong Halo product giving nVidia all the attention in reviews, enthusiast circles, praise. etc'. That resonates with the rest of the product stack.

Plus the bulk of RX 580 cards probably went to miners anyway which may not be reflected in the Steam statistics, heck card availablility is still limited... Whereas it's competitor, the Geforce 1060, 1070 and 1080 is fully stocked here.

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Also... The Radeon R5  430, R5 435, R7 430, R7 435, 520 and 530 are rebadged Oland parts from all the way back in 2013 with the Radeon HD 8000 series cards.
The Radeon R7 450 is actually the same GPU as the Radeon 7750 from 2012. The rebadging sucks.

Next year we will likely see a whole lineup of rebadged Polaris and Vega with possibly Navi sprinkled on top.