Too bad AMD cant help us get better high end GPUs. But I guess they dont want my money anymore.
Looks like my original post was either too obscure or people decided to ignore its meaning.
What I meant was, that LOTS of the people lamenting the lack of a high end AMD gpu only want such gpu released with the hope that Ngreedia would cut their prices, so those people never had any intentions in buying anything from AMD.
Your signature states that you have a 6800, if you really want something better, you can get a discounted 7900 XTX be ok for the next couple of years.
People always do forget this. AMD themselves confirmed back in 2021 that GPUs were de prioritized for EPYC, which was a far higher margin part.
Correct, but people also forget that AMD was so far gone, money wise that they simply had no money to fund everything they wanted to.
People also forget that even today, they are still at the mercy of Intel illegal actions (try to get an AMD powered laptop from Dell Latitude or a desktop from their Optiplex very lucrative business line).
It takes time and money to get back from where they were.
Hell, I think that they are still paying off their debts.
TSMC was a huge bottleneck.
Correct.
People also forget, or refuse to admit, that nvi9dia's prices are not price gouging.
That is absolutely false, they are price gouging.
Their gross margins simply dont lie, the margin on ada was the same if not worse then ampere.
Ngreedia current margins are at least 60% per GPU, according to Moore's law is dead and other places goes as high as 71%.
But AMD chasing high prices because they want to be a "preeemium" brand without the product to back it up defeats that.
So you expected them to charge what for a 7900 XTX, given that it was competing with the 4080, which launched at 1300?
Personally, I got a Pulse 7900 XTX for 899 and it included 2 games that I wanted, valued at around 170 bucks.
Mind you, that was close to when they launched, not recently.
Has the 4080 ever reached those prices?
The 7900xtx, 7800xt, 6800xt, ece were all praised and recommended as great price/perf GPUs. Notice those are not cheap either.
They got praised and then thrown back into the closet.
Those same people simply continued doing their videos with Ngreedia GPUs.
And they were cheaper than the Ngreedia equivalent.
Not having DLSS IS a con when it is the dominant tech.
As I mentioned to W1zzard, being superior doesnt matter when its limited to one vendor.
That is called lock-in tech and it has been Ngreedia MO since they bought Ageia for their PhysX cards.
Back in the day, vendors, reviewers (not the influencers that we have today) and smart consumers (not the sheep that we have today) would fight and reject such crap.
IBM tried to do this with their amazing MicroChannel tech, but everyone saw what they wanted to do (lock you into their system) but the industry went with ISA which was open standard even though it wasn’t superior to MicroChannel.
How bad it is today? check the hit videos published by Tim Jensen from Ngreedia Unboxed when it was RUMORED that AMD blocked his beloved DLSS from Starfield.
But he has never, not once, bitched about a game being polluted with DLSS or even release an apology video when he was proven wrong about Starfield.
AMD could push FSR in the same way and get some marketshare, bu that requires effort, and AMD seems allergic to it.
See above and now adding this.
Same as what AMD did with FSR.
But nobody has ever praised FSR being open source and open standard. Instead is the same nonsense "Its absolute garbage!".
And dont forget the eternal lie, "All AMD drivers sucks!"
But looking at Intel GPUs drivers, they are beyond garbage, yet nobody mentions that.
Only AMD drivers are garbage.
never going to see the engage in pricing wars again.
They would, but the conditions for that wont happen, since it means that all the sheep will wake up about being locked in, priced gouged, etc and for everyone to see that buying a 60 class Ngreedia gpu doesnt mean that they have a 90 class one.
But if somehow everyone decided to buy AMD or Intel at the lower end and lose market share, then you will see them acting.
I wont hold my breath for that to happen though.
