Re:AMD Reports Q1 2021 Earnings
by volta83 on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @03:55AM
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> On the consumer side, RDNA2 is raster, transistor, and power (albiet on a more efficient node) competitive with Ampere, which is big step up from previous generations. Thanks to having performance competitive top-end/halo cards, AMD GPUs have gotten a consumer mindshare win that they haven't had in years.
TBH, the only reason I pay 800$ for a card today is to play games with ray tracing on at an acceptable resolution. This is only possible with nvidia RTX + DLSS.
I wouldn't pay 800$ for an AMD card that gets me similar rasterization performance but none of the "modern" (3 year old already...) features I care about.
Right now, _any_ GFX card is better than having no GFX. Both NVIDIA and AMD are sold out.
I can't know how real the AMD mindshare is. We probably could only know if we had a market with enough supply of both.
TBH, the only reason I pay 800$ for a card today is to play games with ray tracing on at an acceptable resolution. This is only possible with nvidia RTX + DLSS.
I wouldn't pay 800$ for an AMD card that gets me similar rasterization performance but none of the "modern" (3 year old already...) features I care about.
Right now, _any_ GFX card is better than having no GFX. Both NVIDIA and AMD are sold out.
I can't know how real the AMD mindshare is. We probably could only know if we had a market with enough supply of both.