The consumer GPU market is becoming a dystopia at the top end. AMD has publicly retreated from it and Intel is likely a decade away from competing there. I guess I'll stay in the midrange moving forward. Fuck Nvidia.
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I don't get why people are so keen on handing over such a huge amount of money just for bragging rights. The midrange is perfectly fine for playing any game these days. Those top end GPUs are getting an absolutely inordinate amount of attention compared to the relevance they have to most people.
Yup, my 6650 XT is perfectly fine, and my SO has a 6700 XT. Both are way more than we need, and we paid $200-300 for them on sale. Why get the top end? Mine is roughly equivalent to current consoles, so I doubt I'm missing out on much except RTX, but I also don't care enough about RTX to 10x my GPU cost.
This was my exact thinking the moment I realised I, yet again, needed a GPU upgrade (thanks, Unreal 5...). Which is why I seared my soul and dished for a 4080 Super, with the hopes that I'll be covered for a decade at least. The 40s at least seem to still be built mainly for pretty pictures.
Genuinely not worth paying attention to this nonsense. Maybe - MAYBE - AMD will pull a Comrade and will shift full focus on creating genuinely good and progressively better GPUs, meant for friggin' graphics processing and not this "AI" tumor. But that's a big-ass "maybe."
Sigh. Nvidia and Intel doing paper launches, while AMD has delayed to March.
Nvidia doesn't give a shit about gamers anymore. The incremental improvements are a side effect. This is why they're so focused on software enhancements instead like DLSS now. It gives them the marketing numbers without having to do the hardware improvements for gaming.
Their bread and butter now is AI, and large scale machine learning. Where businesses are buying thousands of cards at a time. It's also why they're so stingy with VRAM on their cards, large amounts on VRAM are not as necessary for most workloads outside gaming now, and it saves them millions of dollars every generation.
Nvidia doesn't give a shit about gamers anymore...Their bread and butter now is AI, and large scale machine learning. Where businesses are buying thousands of cards at a time.
I'm just quoting this for emphasis.
Aaah, they're doing the scarcity thing... Cool. Coolcoolcool.
How nice of Nvidia, helping gamers save money in these hard times /s