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Pemalite said:

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And of course, the software stack is no where near as comprehensive. We are still waiting for FSR 3 9 months after it was announced while FSR 2 is losing to XeSS.

And worst of all, because of all those issues, reviewers dunked on RDNA 3 pretty hard which resulted in discounts very quickly which means all those savings likely went out the window. I think if they stuck with Monolith design like Nvidia and continued their trajectory they started with RDNA 2, this generation would have been a lot more competitive imo.

Instead, 4090 will likely be the 1080 Ti of this generation even if it's expensive as 5000 prices will likely be going through the roof.

I would argue AMD's driver front-end is far better than nVidia's, it doesn't look like it's been dragged from the 90's kicking and screaming.

It just lacks the features like FSR3, but otherwise the drivers themselves are actually really solid.

I personally don't use DLSS or FSR, as there is always some kind of artifact's that I pick up on, like texture/shader shimmer, but I get why people do use it, I prefer to just run it raw.

Yea I do agree with their front-end looking a lot more modern. Especially as when you apply settings on the Nvidia driver, it freezes the driver for a brief moment and you also need to log into Geforce Experience if you want to use that front-end.

The thing with upscaling is that more and more modern games are really using it as a crutch. While a 4090 can generally brute force through even Ray Tracing games at 4k Native while having 70-90fps... That is a $1600 GPU. As you go down the stack to more affordable GPUs, either you are sticking with 1440p /1080p or you are using upscaling to get to 4k. I will say that upscaling to 4k generally has a different result to upscaling to 1440p. Based on my experience and evidence from sites like DF and HUB, the upscalers do a much better job with a lot less artifacting since they have more information to play with so they can make more accurate guesses. But for multiplayer games, I won't ever touch upscaling.