EricHiggin said:
If PC gamers have been willing to pay too much for Nvidia GPU's all these years, then there's little reason why AMD should accept much less if they can come close or match Nvidia going forward. If Nvidia had kept prices reasonable without getting too greedy in the first place, AMD wouldn't be daring to charge more for RDNA now either. Though AMD isn't free of blame because their lack of competition led to Nvidia choosing to raise prices, but Nvidia and Nvidia gamers have indirectly led AMD to choose higher pricing as well. |
I was mainly being sarcastic loll.
With that being said, the problem is, if a company is in second place, it's gonna be up to them to bring out the competition and have competitive pricing. Imo Nvidia has both the brand power and the product. 5000 series is a good value sure but it doesn't offer much more than Pascal did in terms of features while being priced similar to Turing. You want ray tracing? You have to go Nvidia. You want DLSS? You have to go Nvidia. You want full compatibility with Direct X 12 Ultimate? You have to go Nvidia. You want the best performance? You have to go Nvidia.
Like you look at the two very talked about features right now... DLSS and Ray Tracing... You can't even bring RDNA1 gpus into the conversation...
Yea they are pricey but I wouldn't say people are over-paying for Nvidia if their only alternative is nothing or less performance. The 5000 series really should have had Pascal pricing since it doesn't have a lot of Turing's features yet it didn't. And the problem with that is Nvidia can lower it's price to match which is exactly what they did. Not to mention the driver issues that still plagued Vega and RDNA at launch.
The thing that made Ryzen a success against Intel isn't AMD charging a similar price. It's AMD showcasing how much of a (imo) shit value Intel really has been. Yea Intel was and still are the gaming king but AMD is close enough while offering better value and dominating performance in many other areas. Like one of the benchmarks that reviewers did is showcase gaming + streaming. Ryzen 1700 did it without little to no issues doing it vs a quad core i5 or i7 was like, pls buy HEDT, thanks or do some process priority adjustments and etc. Of course the Ryzen 1000 launch wasn't very smooth but since CPUs rarely need driver/bios updates, once you got past it the issues, Ryzen was smooth.
For me personally to get RDNA2 GPU, they not only need to make a GPU that has similar performance to Nvidia all the way up to a 3080 but they also need to make sure they are on top of drivers. Cause I have Cyberpunk 2077 pre-ordered. And if Nvidia is ready day 1 with their drivers and I have to wait a week or two for AMD to release theirs, no thanks. I am not gonna buy gaming GPU where I have to wait to play new games... And I will also be looking at their launch drivers as well.
Yea it's a lot to ask but there's a reason why Nvidia is king right now... Like an expensive hooker, she will swallow every time without hesitation...
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