I had to buy 3070 ti at scalped price. Ended up paying £700 for it. I hate myself for it but the prices didn’t shift for months after and my gtx 1080 kicked the bucket.
No way in hell am I buying anything this gen. My wife’s 1080 is going for now, maybe we’ll get 5080 if it’s not a rip off.
I wouldn’t say so, they also seem to have abandoned the gaming segment and nowadays are playing more or less ball with NVIDIA while trying to improve their AI stack so that they can get a higher chunk of the data centre business.
I don’t think that’s true at all. Let’s go back a while.
We had Polaris, a mid range 2016 architecture that was sold for years as a mid range then low end card.
They also had the Vega cards, which were compute-focussed and not particularly great at gaming.
Following that, they had the 5700 series. Decent gaming cards.
After that, the 6000s series. Right up there with Nvidia, and taking into consideration the die size, performance, and comparatively generous VRAM, you could argue they were the better gaming cards, despite losing in RT.
7000s series is pretty much like the 6000 except slightly further behind the 4090, albeit for half the real-world price due to AI demand bringing the already crazy 4090 prices even higher.
Idk to me it seems AMD is more competitive in gaming now than they have been for a long time.
Absolutely, AMD is very focused on Datacenter/AI now. They just presented their next gen AI system MI300X which made AMD stock go up significantly, and on the CPU side their server CPU Epyc is where the big money is at.
That said AMD is still into gaming hardware because they work with both Sony and Microsoft on making new consoles, what we get on the desktop from AMD, is probably mostly derived from that on the GPU side.
Yes, that was a very impressive win. Intel/Nvidia has usually been the preferred solution when power efficiency is important.
But now AMD is competing well in that segment too.
I had to buy 3070 ti at scalped price. Ended up paying £700 for it. I hate myself for it but the prices didn’t shift for months after and my gtx 1080 kicked the bucket. No way in hell am I buying anything this gen. My wife’s 1080 is going for now, maybe we’ll get 5080 if it’s not a rip off.
Its nvidia, its always a ripoff :p
Especially now when gaming GPUs are an afterthought for them.
Thats only nvidia though. Amd seems to still be trying to compete with nvidia some way or another
I wouldn’t say so, they also seem to have abandoned the gaming segment and nowadays are playing more or less ball with NVIDIA while trying to improve their AI stack so that they can get a higher chunk of the data centre business.
I don’t think that’s true at all. Let’s go back a while.
We had Polaris, a mid range 2016 architecture that was sold for years as a mid range then low end card.
They also had the Vega cards, which were compute-focussed and not particularly great at gaming.
Following that, they had the 5700 series. Decent gaming cards.
After that, the 6000s series. Right up there with Nvidia, and taking into consideration the die size, performance, and comparatively generous VRAM, you could argue they were the better gaming cards, despite losing in RT.
7000s series is pretty much like the 6000 except slightly further behind the 4090, albeit for half the real-world price due to AI demand bringing the already crazy 4090 prices even higher.
Idk to me it seems AMD is more competitive in gaming now than they have been for a long time.
Absolutely, AMD is very focused on Datacenter/AI now. They just presented their next gen AI system MI300X which made AMD stock go up significantly, and on the CPU side their server CPU Epyc is where the big money is at.
That said AMD is still into gaming hardware because they work with both Sony and Microsoft on making new consoles, what we get on the desktop from AMD, is probably mostly derived from that on the GPU side.
Also the steam deck! They really got themselves in the console market this gen!
Yes, that was a very impressive win. Intel/Nvidia has usually been the preferred solution when power efficiency is important.
But now AMD is competing well in that segment too.
Especially now when gaming GPUs are an afterthought for them.