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JEMC said:
Captain_Yuri said:

My biggest fear next gen is gonna be the pricing for these "performance lifts." This generation, we have seen that AMD has effectively abandoned budget gamers.

On their CPU side, a 5600G which costs slightly less than 5600X gets out performed by the much cheaper 11400 from Intel in CPU performance. On top of that, Intel gives you PCI-E gen 4 while you are stuck with Gen 3 for 5600G.

On the GPU front, a 6600XT is an utter joke. Nvidia gives you a GPU (3060 Ti) that will beat the PS5/Series X. AMD gives you a GPU that will probably get rolled by the consoles for $20 less. And you can't even make the argument that when you put on ray tracing, the 3060 becomes much more competitive against the consoles because we know how bad RDNA 2 really is with higher end Ray Tracing titles. And the 3060 has more Vram.

Now you could say MSRP doesn't matter for GPUs but remember that both AMD and Nvidia do sell GPUs for MSRP. It's just extremely hard to get them. And while you might have to wait for 20 hours at best buy for a chance to get a 3060 Ti at MSRP, you don't have that choice with a 6600XT as it's AIBs only.

Next time around though, they are both going for TSMC. And if the silicon shortage sticks and I am sure the Cryto currency boom will come back since these performance uplifts will surely include mining as well... It will be some essh worthy times. Hopefully Intel can actually fill in the budget GPU category like they have been doing with their CPUs. Cause while these days, I can afford a 5950x and a 3080, I was in the mid ranged segment for most of my life so far. And it's quite shameful how much money you really need to spend these days to get into PC gaming.

But that is one of the reasons I am excited for the Steam Deck.

AMD's goal to reach a 50% gross margin may be great for its results and investors, but it's killing us with prices that are higher than should be.

And well, I hope Nvidia has learned the lesson and designs their chips with anti-crypto measures from the start. With a bit of luck, AMD will join them.

Yea and that's the annoying part. Don't get me wrong, I am not saying AMD should be a charity but on the more budget cards, I would like all companies to take more of a hit to their margins to keep the costs low cause you just know they are making bank on their higher end cards. In a landscape where both Nvidia and AMD want the highest margins possible, it really does start to screw the more lower end cards.

The main issue with their anti-crypto is that it only really targets ETH. If next time around, there's another popular crypto currency as ETH is going away from mining, then their LHR isn't gonna do much. We will see though.



                  

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