[GN] HW News - AMD Leaves High-End GPUs, EK Aftermath, Consumer Protection for Electronics

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Bigjackaal96@reddit

Sounds like Anti-AMD BS dressed up as facts since only 1 dude at AMD said "Maybe?" to hide that the 4090 pricing is a joke. It all still just rumours since the RX 8000 line up info won't be said in full till early 2025.

I really do find the 7900xtx bashing on this site unbearably cringe.

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PsiXPsi@reddit

Let’s be honest - even if AMD released a card that equaled or beat nvidia’s offering at a better price, no regular consumer would buy it. All people want is AMD competitive enough to make nVidia lower their price. People initially embracing Zen was more because Intel screwed up more than AMD won consumer mindshare.

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MonoShadow@reddit

At this point nVidia is halfway software company. Even if AMD makes a GPU which matches nVidia offering in Raster, RT and power efficiency, they will still need to go over the last hurdle of RTX. DLSS2 is the market benchmark. There is a slew of different options in RTX suite people might find useful.

I don't use RTX broadcast or RTX voice. But I have a 4K HDR screen, so I use DLSS2 and RTX HDR often(many games still refuse to master in HDR, like recent Space Marine 2). AMD has nothing to offer me. A small % of raster FPS wins are going to pale once I enable FSR2 and there's no HDR solution I know of.

And then if you're doing any GPGPU tasks on your GPU nVidia is plain better supported with CUDA.

At this point AMD is miles behind on software front and just nailing hardware isn't enough anymore. It's not the (relatively) olden days.

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advester@reddit

At least AMD seems to understand this and are promising to take software more seriously.

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Cartload8912@reddit

Actually, AMD even went as far as sending a cease and desist to an open-source project trying to implement CUDA for AMD GPUs. It's like they want to force everyone to use their own APIs, even though NVIDIA owns the pro market.

Most of the software in that space is either optimized for or exclusive to NVIDIA hardware. I thought about switching to AMD because their VRAM pricing is much better than NVIDIA's, but the software I use just doesn't play nice with AMD. Plenty of people with AMD GPUs in the community warned me off too. Switching software isn't an option.

After Intel Arc grabbed AMD's low-end gaming market, it feels like AMD is mostly stuck in the mid-range now.

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