If specs translate to performance then that's my point, there is no reason to be checking the specs, just check the performance. I did, and I found the amd cards wanting cause of the atrocious RT performance, terrible up scaling capabilities, and the lack of cuda cores makes it also terrible for productivity.
You buy a card that suits your needs. If AMD does not suit you, you buy Nvidia or Intel, whatever works best. Your generic criticism sounds quite emotional and loaded with emotive language "terrible", "atrocious", etc. Relax dude. This is not a drama&theatre class.
7000 cards lifted RT performance to a level of Ampere cards, which is quite good on its own. Of course, Ada cards are even better in RT, which is fine for those who need this feature. For those who do not, it's a useless feature they would never look at or even consider, like me. I hope you understand this. Productivity workloads are diverse. Nvidia cards are brilliant for many of those workloads and 7000 cards have improved a lot in content creation, especially in AV1, which is also good.
We know AMD has been pathetic on the amount Of RT performance on several classes of gpus in recent years. For example, the 6800xt was and still is absurdly slow in RT for a high end expensive card.
"We know?" Who is we? You cannot be bashing and berating products if those products do not meet your personal gaming or productivity needs. It's silly and childish to do that. RT performance is just one of features that not everyone needs or cares about. Accept it. 7000 cards are of course not as high in RT performance as Ada cards, but it's quite decent in comparison to previous AMD generations. For those who need this feature. It's definitely not "pathetic", which is another emotive word we do not need here.
I have Sapphire 6800XT and 7900XTX cards. Both are great in pure raster and media content, and meet my needs. I do not use RT and therefore do not need the feature. If I needed it, I would have bought Nvidia card. Simple.
6800XT has 16GB of VRAM and is fantastic card for gaming on 4K/120Hz OLED TV. It is literally on par with 3080, but original 3080 10GB suffers from insufficient VRAM and is not future-proof in that regard. That's why I did not buy Nvidia card. My Flight Simulator used ~15GB of VRAM in 2021 already.
7900XTX with 24GB of VRAM serves me really well in 4K gaming and media creation. It was significantly cheaper than 4080 16GB to buy, it has 8GB more of VRAM and future-proof connectivity with three DisplayPort 2.1 ports, each at 54 Gbps, for new monitors I intend to buy later this year. It's a perfect card for my needs and I would highly recommend it to anyone who needs a high-end product without paying more than ~$/€1000.
Please accept a basic fact that different cards meet different needs of their users. That's all to it.
Interesting way to word it. AMD is closer on gaming revenue not because AMD is gaining serious ground, but because Nvidia gaming sector has seen almost a 50% decrease in revenue.
Id guess took a huge hit on sales for mining.
No. They genuinely did not sell cards to ordinary folks. Miners have moved to ASICs. GPUs are not as profitable for them anymore. There has been a multi-million GPU flood on secondary market last year and people bought tones of GPUs, e.g used 3090 for $750 on ebay.
Official Nvidia documents show that they have more than $5 billion in inventory in stock, which suggests a huge amount of unsold GPUs that they do not want to release on the market in bigger numbers and lower price. Which means that people showed a middle finger to high prices of cards and did not buy them.
