Opinion Piece #2 as it's slow news weekend...
AMD needs to be competitive in features if they want to charge Nvidia prices
AMD going from being xx70 competitor to being able to trade blows against Nvidia's xx90 is certainly quite the achievement. But when AMD is asking similar prices to Nvidia for only being good at one thing and not even good at that all the time... Well... It becomes very hard to recommend.
And here is what I mean. Lets look at for example, techpowerups review of the 6600XT as that will have the latest data in their reviews:
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/sapphire-radeon-rx-6600-xt-pulse-oc/28.html
So what is the pattern? Well in Raster...
| 4k | 1440p | 1080p |
| 3090/3080 Ti > 6900XT | 3090/3080 Ti > 6900XT | 6900XT > 3090/3080 Ti |
| 3080 > 6800XT | 6800XT > 3080 | 6800XT > 3080 |
| 6800 > 3070 Ti | 6800 > 3070 Ti | 6800 > 3070 Ti |
| 3070 > 6700XT | 3070 > 6700XT | 3070 > 6700XT |
| 3060 Ti/3060 > 6600XT | 3060 Ti > 6600XT > 3060 | 3060 Ti > 6600XT > 3060 |
So RDNA 2's claim to fame is supposed to be in Raster... Yet... Most of their GPUs loose even in Raster... Unless you are one of those types that pay $1000 for a GPU to play at 1080p. To be fair though, least at the top end, the % are so close that it doesn't matter too much. But then you add in the features where Nvidia is vastly superior like in Ray Tracing, like in DLSS, like in Production workloads, and with added features such as RTX voice and etc... And of course, Nvidia GPUs also have support for FSR and Re-sizable Bar (but granted SAM works a bit better on AMD). And you really get to see why it's hard to recommend RDNA 2 over Nvidia... Especially at todays prices...
And of course, Raster is becoming the new "Medium" settings as time goes on where as Ray Tracing is becoming the new "Ultra" settings. As games continues to implement Ray Tracing, AMD really needs to catch up next gen, especially in features.
But there is a light at the end of the tunnel. RDNA 3 is supposed to have MCM design that's supposed to be really revolutionary. And they patented technology similar to Tensor Cores and DLSS. We will see how that fairs against Nvidia's node parity as both RDNA 3 and Lovelace are supposed to be using the same node but suffices to say, Jensen has his work cut out for him. I believe AMD can become dominant in the GPU market. They just need to pull a Zen 3 which they just might do next time. Lets just hope that if they do pull a zen 3 in the GPU space, they don't forget about their budget buyers...
Last edited by Jizz_Beard_thePirate - on 26 September 2021 
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