Yeah its been pretty awful years for GPU's. And before Ampere we had those awful Turing prices. Ampere was like harking back to the Pascal days in actually delivering good uplifts for reasonable amount of money accross the stack. And now Nvidia seems to regressing back again, this time worse. Especially now that people are used to spending over north end of a near a grand or more on graphics cards.
What doesn't help is that AMD just continues to follow Nvidia's lead. Whether it be to performance to feature sets. And doing the bare minimum to catch up. They need to be much more proactive and not just price adjust their stuff to what Nvidia is doing. RDNA 1 release was meh, didn't try. RDNA 2 was better. 3 well, is just looking okay but still behind on where it counts. Because they wanted to make a reasonable GPU for under a $1000.. as they know they still can't compete with Nvidia in RT anyway. Man, they just needed to make a big ass GPU and screw the noise. Cut the RAM if need be if its using too much power and go balls to the walls.
The whole situation reminds me of when Intel were the only dominant CPU manufacterer for a long time and charged what the market was willing to bare and didn't try harder than offer quad core CPU for multiple generation,so we had a stagnant market. It wasn't until AMD finally pulled its fingers out and came out with Zen. And now we have more multicore CPU's than you can swing at mutliple price brackets; from flagship, to low end and mobile. Because AMD were competitive and now Intel and AMD are at each others throats.
I'm hoping this generation tanks for Nvidia to teach them a lesson. AMD too, to a lesser extent. Unless both come out with some good offering in the mid-range and they actually price these cards to what they should be in and slot in. Else its going to a long wait for Blackwell and RDNA 4.. While both AMD and Nvidia tries to clear out its old stock of GPU's that they had made for miners.
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