Nvidia is exploiting its consumer base via brand loyalty and market psychology. Nvidia can justify its outrageous prices precisely because its customer base rationalizes it. This is just like Apple but even worse.
No. It's a fact that AMD has no answer to the RTX 4090 over 2 years later and that this will continue to be the case at least until UDNA comes around, and that is assuming that it isn't a flop either. It is also a fact that throughout the stack, GeForce cards tend to be either faster, more efficient, more feature complete, more compatible (and definitely) offer superior software support, usually a combination of these characteristics and in certain segments, all of them at once. This is why people buy them and 90% of the dGPU market has spoken loud and clear. It's up to AMD to listen. They must stop neglecting compute and ship out ROCm for consumer Radeons ASAP, they must stop neglecting RT, they must stop neglecting older APIs, etc.
If the only provider of high quality products decides to charge for the privilege... tough luck, it's supply and demand.
AMD's prices are set accordingly to the features and performance they offer to the competition. The 7900xt is often just a few bucks more than the 4070 super, but guess which one is selling 30 to 1?
The 7800xt is $100 cheaper while performance is not as good, the extra 4gb offers better life and frame generation. Does not matter. Market psychology. There is no other industry that rationalizes the same way as this particular segment of the PC industry.
Critical mistake. NVIDIA and AMD are not on equal footing when it comes to drivers and features, by the time 16 GB matters, the 7800 XT has long since faded into irrelevance due to its low performance. This is true even for the RTX 4070 Ti Super and the duo of 4080 cards. Moreover, FSR and its frame generation technology is rudimentary when compared to DLSS and even Intel's XeSS. The evidence is everywhere and thankfully, TPU now has image quality comparison reviews for all 3 major upscalers... FSR always comes dead last behind DLSS and XeSS, with rare few exceptions where it usually takes a back seat to just DLSS.
Stalker: Heart of Chornobyl is out now on PC, with support for NVIDIA's DLSS Super Resolution, DLAA and Frame Generation, Intel's Xe Super Sampling, UE5's Temporal Super Resolution and AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution upscaling and Frame Generation. In this review we compare the image quality...
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The FSR 3.1 upscaling implementation is extremely underwhelming in this game. At 4K resolution in its "Quality" mode, the small details in tree leaves, vegetation and of thin steel objects are noticeably degraded, the overall image looks very blurry, even when standing still[...]the FSR 3.1 image is completely broken, producing simply a wrong image quality with extreme loss of all details, it looks like an oil painting
Very reassuring! Sounds pleasant to look at, excuse me while I go out to buy a Radeon card. And if you go dig in all of these comparison reviews, you'll find there is maybe two games where it's not a disaster in the past 10 they reviewed. It's really God of War Ragnarök, and that's about it.
The only reason anyone should buy a 7800 XT over a 4070 Super is if they use Linux, making the Windows driver situation inconsequential, and even then thanks to the AI push Nvidia has been spending some time on their Linux stack. If AMD doesn't watch out, then their Linux advantage will be reduced to just an "open source advantage", which will surely strain things with anyone who stops short of being a Stallmanian free software activist.
If this sounds like doomposting, that's because the situation is really that bad. If 90% plus of the market is choosing to purchase the competition's product at inflated prices, the problem is YOU. And this is what AMD needs to understand.