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System Name | My second and third PCs are Intel + Nvidia |
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Processor | AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D |
Motherboard | MSi Pro B650M-A Wifi |
Cooling | be quiet! Dark Rock 4 |
Memory | 2x 24 GB Corsair Vengeance EXPO DDR5-6000 CL36 |
Video Card(s) | PowerColor Reaper Radeon RX 9070 XT |
Storage | 2 TB Corsair MP600 GS, 4 TB Seagate Barracuda |
Display(s) | Dell S3422DWG 34" 1440 UW 144 Hz |
Case | Kolink Citadel Mesh |
Audio Device(s) | Logitech Z333 2.1 speakers, AKG Y50 headphones |
Power Supply | 750 W Seasonic Prime GX |
Mouse | Logitech MX Master 2S |
Keyboard | Logitech G413 SE |
Software | Bazzite (Fedora Linux) KDE Plasma |
Then maybe it's time to change our perspective both as hobby gamers / PC builders, and as a species, and appreciate what we've got while using it to the fullest before moving on to the next best thing at enormous costs. Of course it wouldn't be good for the market, but is the market in its current state good for us?@AusWolf
Because, inflation and market situation aside, the costs of development and manufacturing are rising exponentially, not linearly. Especially for really big dense chips, which GPUs are. It isn’t a complete coincidence that the price increases are coinciding with lithography switching to ever more expensive and complex EUV machines. Of course, if market realities been different, the increases to MSRP might have been lower. But it would have crept up all the same regardless. NVidia isn’t exactly lying about their sky-high RnD costs and TSMC is not lying either about each new manufacturing step up being more and more expensive and time consuming.
It's sad, though, because the GPUs themselves are really good.To paraphrase HUB Steve in his talk to GN Steve about AMD GPUs, they really seem to have a strategy of just plopping a product into the market and going “Wouldn’t it be really nice if X would sell at *insert inane price here*? Yeah, it would. Cool. Why isn’t it selling?!”. This just isn’t a sustainable and effective strategy. Just isn’t.
I hope consoles and Linux gaming (however small that market is) will keep Radeon going and urge AMD to get better. If anything, changing market strategy with RDNA 4 is a good thing, imo.