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haxxiy on 16 November 2022
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hinch said:

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.

True enough, but the only way it's getting better is companies going for lower profit margins compared to previous gens, since manufacturing costs will increase even further in the future. The 5090 likely needs to be released for >$2000 and maybe even >$2400 if it comes in the 2-3 nm nodes to keep up the margins.

Would AMD do it when the market is as static as it is even when they offer the best value? I doubt it. Which means Nvidia also won't. Only Intel has a shot of being a disruptive force in the market, but will they?