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Chazore said:

Captain_Yuri said:

Meh, the video is an opinion piece more so than actual testing and to be fair, it's not like getting a 6800XT for $400 less than a 3080 is a bad thing by any means. For his needs and his subjective opinion, it's perfectly fine. Heck, he even says he would rather have a 3080 if it were the same price. If I were in his situation, I wouldn't be paying $400 more for a 3080 either (not that I would have jumped on a 6800XT but I am not playing at 4k either).

At the end of the day, AMD GPUs only gives you some features where as Nvidia GPUs will give you all the features which is why it's easier to recommend. You like FSR over DLSS? Nvidia has FSR and DLSS so you aren't limited to one or the other. You don't like Ray Tracing? Nvidia has great Raster performance as well but will smoke AMD in those games where you may want to turn it on one day. You do content creation? Nvidia has you covered.

But in todays market where the prices are all over the place, you do need to take into account a number of things and what matters to you because these GPUs ain't cheap.

I still can't shake off the feeling like he's willingly stockholmed himself. Like when you really think about it, (esp with the pros you had in your post) the only thing AMD has going for it is the price and half of FSR. I know they have some features, but I'm an all or nothing kind of guy, and being on PC, I'd want access to all those features.

Prices atm suck for a lot of people, as well as availability, but the guy sounds like he chose based on price and tossed full bias into the mix (he could have simply said "can't get no cards, AMD is all I got left", and that would have sufficed for the entire video). 

Well, he said raytracing doesn't interest him right now with the current hardware on the market and it's limitations (even under NVidia), and considering he prefers FSR over DLSS, there's not much left where NVidia is truly better for his use scenario. The encoding could be done at a lower bitrate, but other than that, there's not really much of advantage for him if he chose NVidia.

I also agree with that guy on the software. I was used AMD software for many years until I got an NVidia GPU in my laptop and I found it infuriating compared to the easiness that the AMD software provided, so much so that I try to deal with it as little as possible. But maybe it's just because I'm more used to have everything neatly packed in one program...