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Pemalite said:

I would argue technologies like FSR and DLSS is actually *more* important for older and less capable graphics cards.

It's a performance/image enhancement and older hardware would absolutely benefit from it more in regards to being able to continue playing the latest titles with acceptable image quality and performance.

I do agree that FSR and DLSS are more important for older GPUs/less capable cards but the point I was making is that based on various tech reviews like DF/HUB is that there is a stark difference between using FSR and DLSS at lower resolutions than 4k. And the lower you go, the worse FSR gets. And the main reason is because FSRs image stability is significantly worse than DLSS at lower resolutions hence why many people would recommend to turn down settings if possible than to use FSR.

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Captain_Yuri said:

I do favor Nvidia over Radeon because they bring innovation to the market. They are a terrible and greedy company no doubt but unlike Radeon who is also terrible and greedy, Nvidia is actually pushing pc gaming forward with new and innovative tech. It's also why I like Intel because they are trying to do what Nvidia is doing but at a much cheaper price. And it's not like Nvidia is only good at Ray Tracing. Nvidia is also competitive if not faster depending on the GPU with Raster as well. But it does depend on a persons priorities. Do you want a console experience but faster or do you want more innovative experience? Are you on a budget or are you willing to pay a premium for that experience?

Every company innovates, whether those innovations are important is another matter entirely... Many innovations are not middle-ware either that are advertised to consumers... AMD has pushed integrated graphics capabilities forwards rather significantly for instance.

AMD beat nVidia with Tessellation by almost a decade, TressFX got rolled into GPUOpen and is still being developed... Mostly because it's open source and not beholden to AMD developing it.

Where GameWorks with HairWorks has fallen by the wayside.

Things like Mantle getting rolled into Vulkan was another innovation brought to the PC market, which then influenced Microsoft's Direct X 12 to be more efficient by bringing low-level improvements.

I think it's a big disservice to the entire industry when people assert that any company doesn't innovate... Even the long dead S3 Graphics brought innovative technologies that nVidia and AMD use today, like texture compression.

I don't find AMD or nVidia better than either, they both have their Pro's and Con's... And I will weigh them both everytime I make a purchase.
I.E. I generally go Radeon on Desktop because of price/performance reasons... But I often go nVidia with notebooks because of how seamless Optimus generally is.

AMD does innovate and they have innovated in the past no doubt. Back in the day, I did buy Radeon products like the 4870 and 6870 because Radeon innovated. I still buy Ryzen products because AMD continues to innovate in the CPU landscape. But the issue is that as a whole, most reviewers out there would largely agree that the recent innovations that Nvidia has brought to the table far outdoes anything that Radeon has recently brought. And factually that is correct because in my view, Nvidia and Radeon are simply not equal to each other because how far ahead Nvidia is in their feature set.

If I am buying a GPU this generation, I am not going to look at what Radeon did 10 years ago. I am going to look at what Nvidia and Radeon are doing right now. Reviewers say that Nvidia has significant Ray Tracing performance lead. Reviewers say that DLSS is significantly better than FSR. Reflex is something that Radeon does not have an answer to. The raster performance is similar when comparing the performance tier. Yuzu (and other emulation) developers posts issues with Radeon drivers almost every month. Nvidia does have their own issues but it's a lot less. Just look at last months Yuzu progress report and skip to the driver section:

https://yuzu-emu.org/entry/yuzu-progress-report-mar-2023/

So it's like, cool so what has Radeon done recently that's better than Nvidia? Well you get more vram for the same price and their last gen cards are cheaper. Great anything else? I am not saying it's bad to buy Radeon and if you are on a budget, RDNA 2 is absolutely the right buy for sub $550. But in terms of recent PC innovation that matters to those that are buying now? It just feels like Radeon quite lacking.