If you don't play new games or game at 1080p (or you're fine playing at 1440p with some settings st to high or mid), a B580 is a perfectly valid option and 300€ is about right, $249 + VAT in your country.

Given how scarce they are, I get one... if you can't wait to see how much the 5060s and 9060s cost, as they can shake a bit the market in that segment.

Don't fool yourself. Despite Jensen claiming that Nvidia is now an AI company, he still cares a lot about winning and being on top of everyone else.

If anything, this f*ck up generation will only make Nvidia come back stronger or, at least, more focused. Not that it's hard to do better than what they've done this gen, but they'll still go hard to try to make everyone forget about it.

That Hardware Unboxed tweet in the article really sums it all perfectly. AMD did well waiting, and Nvidia really messed up the launch of the 5000 cards. More so if they can't even make enough 5070 cards for a trully global launch.

I find it funny how MSI does that and the cards are still out of stock... and they can't really gain anything from the launch of the 9070s because they decided (not without reason, mind you) that it wasn't worth it to keep doing Radeon GPUs and focused only on Nvidia cards. Oopsy!

Nvidia killed the 5070 by not making enough cards. And that's despite the delay the 5070 has had.

I hope AMD goes as hard with the 9060s as they're going with the 9070s, because they need to realize that they also have to compete with Intel in that segment.

In any case, pricing at this segment is harder than in the others because the margins are also smaller, so 30 to 50 dollars are harder to stomach and also have a bigger impact than we sometimes think. Those $30 can make a card 10% cheaper than another, which is a big difference in that range of GPUs.

If you're tired of playing Demos (here are the most played ones), Steam brings you this:

https://store.steampowered.com/category/visual_novel

Given the genre we're talking about, be careful with the NSFW content.

Absolutely no reason why that couldn't be the case... Comes down to resources in the end. - Keep in mind the game "Control" used DLSS 1.9 on release which was done on nVidia's CUDA cores and could theoretically operate on GTX cards. (Eventually updated to version 2.0 which used the tensor cores.)

GCN and RDNA have a ton of compute resources, it's just not the precision or type of compute that's optimal for deep learning... With the exception of RDNA2 which supports various low-precision data types such as INT4 and INT8... Graphics Core Next most notably AMD Vega can do INT8.

In the end it's a compute issue...

But AMD's fallback is FSR3... It's probably not worth their time and money making another fork of FSR for older cards, AMD has limited resources and needs to use those limited resources to compete with nVidia.

Rather... AMD will likely roll their FSR4 into ROCm which is AMD's competitor to CUDA, which has deep learning support included now... And it's open source, so modders will likely do the heavy lifting.
And with ROCm supporting UXL which has the backing of: Intel, Google, Arm, Qualcomm, Samsung, Imagination, and VMware I am hoping development for ROCm becomes significantly larger and more mature to compete with CUDA.

Deep Learning and Ray Tracing is still in it's infancy, lots of development is going to happen in these spaces over the next few years.


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In saying that... You could just run XESS on AMD's cards anyway.

Or... And this may become a thing in the future... NPU add-ons for deep learning.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/lenovo-showcases-a-usb-c-connected-ai-stick-with-a-32-tops-npu-on-board

AMD could theoretically use that for FSR4 and make it compatible with everything, even a 3dfx Voodoo 2 12MB from 1998 on Windows 98. Haha (I can dream)

Gamers actually voted for this with their wallets.
It's the consumers who enabled nVidia.

And this is partly the reason why I have primarily purchased AMD GPU's for the last decade, purely out of price/performance.
Obviously you have people cry "The drivers are bad" - But honestly, it's been such a non-issue.

Well that and their marketing (more you buy, the more you save-type marketing I mean).

I've honestly heard little noise from the AMD drivers front as being bad in the past 4-5ish years, but any time I do see it popping up, it's usually coming from an Nvidia only user. 

Considering how I've been outright kicked out of Nvidia's market in terms of features/performance, but mostly price, AMD's going to be my next choice to go for.