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EricHiggin said:

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My issue is here that with AMD adjusting their prices up to Nvidia, they are actually doing the worse thing. Nvidia has raised their prices in the past 5 years considerably, but that coincides with them putting out banger after banger of GPU. Nvidia architectures haven't just been great because the lack of competition, they are great just on their own and compared to their own products. Nvidia has been innovating and not holding back any performance even though they easily could've. Their price hikes may not be completely justified but you know what's even less justified? AMD adjusting their prices up without delivering competitive products.

If you go hard on Nvidia for high prices you should go even harder on AMD if they follow it up. If we want prices to come down due to competition then AMD has to price their chips at the level we would like them to have based on their performance and features. But we already know AMD won't do that.

Nvidia's higher prices are basically just our self imposed tax for them not putting on the breaks when they could've due to a lack of competition.

That's what people said about Intel before Ryzen showed up. Something is only the best of the best until it's not.

Now I agree that it doesn't seem as though Nvidia slacked off on the same level that Intel had, but when they strategically launch models against the competition with just the right timing, as well as price cuts at times, are they really being all that they can be for the consumer? Could those products and cheaper prices not have come sooner?

AMD likely won't do that because it will probably mean Radeon only sells marginally more and will just end up losing money, or selling more GPU's for the same profit anyway. In that case AMD might as well make as much as they can by doing as little as they can within reason.

Yes, those price drops could've come sooner, if there was any competition sooner. for example If anything it's a great sign that they instantly lower prices as soon as there is competition.

While lower prices are nice I cannot fault a product for its price when it is unique in its performance bracket. It's the additional cost for getting something that you cannot get anywhere else. Now guess how that could be solved.