While TPU voters might be caring about raster performance, 80% of the buyers care about RT performance and DLSS. That's Nvidia's market share.
Even SONY pressured AMD to get it's sh!t together and improve RT performance and stop fooling around like what they did with RDNA3.
Personally I am going to insist in what I was saying the day reviews of RX 7900XTX/XT came out. RT performance must be a priority because that's where all the marketing is. Also upscaling and Frame Generation today is seen as a God send gift, not as cheating, we are not in 200x where cheating was exposed as something negative. Today it's a feature. This means that raster performance is more than enough when combined with upscaling and Frame Generation, meaning what AMD needs to do is to focus on RT performance. Only then they can level the field with Nvidia in performance and force Nvidia to search for another gimmick to differentiate their cards, while subotaging of course the competition.
So 80% of buyers are idiots that can't see what's happening in front of them, then.
I think that's a good match with the realistic market conditions of the mainstream vs the niche. I bet the same ish 80% listens to the top music only, whatever gets aired, they listen. I bet the same happens wrt console ownership vs the gaming PC, 80/20, seems real.
But 20% of the market is still a multi billion dollar market, even if its a niche in a niche, go figure.
There's a place for all of it, and funneling all markets into a situation where they're overpaying for shitty graphics isn't The Way.
I don't think Nvidia sells cards better because of RT and DLSS. They position their products better, they market them better, their time to market is shorter, and they're first rather than last with new features. Features being much more than RT and DLSS. Those are just examples that are live today. Its really quite amazing AMD held on to some order of 40% share for so long, given its performance over the last few decades.
They simply need to do better and be actually consistent for a change. There are almost no two generations next to each other where AMD has made a simple move forward, doing what they did last time, executing their successful product strategy not once, but twice. It hasn't happened a single time since Nvidia's Kepler at least, well MAYBE with the HD7000 series, but then they just rebranded it to R-series for god knows what reason but here we are: no consistency. Suddenly a 7970 was 280x... They've been all over the place, and the customer loses trust. Its only logical and tháts where that extra 20% in market share loss was created. AMD has definitely bled some fanbase over the last few years, and they can blame only themselves. Also, bad product positioning/strategy overall: Fury X 4GB was a complete misfire, got eclipsed by the 980ti 6GB (go figure... Nvidia pulled the VRAM card on AMD, but even destroyed it at 1080p,
and overclocked much better) and a year post release nearly lost all game support/optimization. Again: this kills trust.
Heck even I am not so sure I'll dive into another AMD GPU right now. Look at the per-game performance on some new titles. Its abysmal. Forget RT - AMD needs full focus on the basics first. Every time AMD needs another kick in the nuts to keep doing things right. RDNA2 was great, the consoles forced them to make a very solid driver and support cadence. Apparently they've reached that milestone now and the focus is off again. Its like... WTF dudes?