JEMC said:
What annoys me the most is that it's happening now, when AMD has launched very competitive cards that are actually well priced (for a change) and with good drivers, while Nvidia has been the opposite, with one of their worst generation uplifts is many years, with the expected prices and awful drivers. And yet, people still go for them, to the point of making the 5070 with its 12GB of VRAM the best new card on the Steam hardware survey. At this point, there's nothing AMD can do to beat Nvidia. It's like the market assumes Nvidia is the brand to go, just like Playstation has that image for consoles. |
I have noticed in other forums, people are still of the belief that nVidia's drivers are better than AMD's.
Perception makes a helluva difference.
I was hoping AMD would claw back some marketshare, but nVidia's brand power is just impenetrable at the moment...
The 9060XT 16GB has actually impressed me as a GPU with how well it holds itself, it's definitely the best value buy in the mid-range segment.
I understand why the 9070 series has floundered with it's high inflated pricing, nVidia ironically is the better value in that segment IMHO.
Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
Yea it's pretty much a "it is what it is" moment. Nvidia will need to pull an Intel for multiple generations at this point if Radeon wants to gain market share. I think Radeon will just continue to carve out a niche segment in the pc space in handhelds and DIY while Nvidia continues to dominate. Least Radeon will always have playstation to fall back to. If they can win Nintendo, that would give them another source of revenue since xbox seems to be on their way out. May god help us when rtx 6000 series comes out tho. I don't wanna even think about the prices then. |
nVidia doesn't screw up though. Well. Not really.
nVidia screwed up with NV1 when they pushed quadratics over polygons... And again with the Geforce FX with garbage SM2 performance... But even when they refused to adopt DX11 for a few generations (Tesla architecture), they still had a very compelling product from a performance/price perspective.
But since, they haven't made a colossal screw up like Intel with it's Netburst or re-badging 14nm for a decade... And any screw ups get quickly rectified within a year anyway due to their multiple GPU development teams constantly leap-frogging each other.
nVidia just has hardware execution down to a fine art... Something AMD has struggled to do over the past 15 years, with tons of rebadged GCN parts and abandoning flagship products for a generation here and there...
On the bright side, AMD doesn't actually need consoles anymore, Ryzen is bringing in cash and marketshare... And that is having a flow-on effect to integrated graphics with notebooks and handhelds which is justifying the existence of the Radeon team.
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