majestic Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat, AMD is as bad as Intel and nVidia when afforded the opportunity? You don't say. I thought Lisa Su is my lord and saviour? 1 No voice to cry suffering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoraptor Posted February 2 Author Share Posted February 2 Lisa Su is AMD's lord and saviour, not the general publics'. Hard to see how AMD could be 'artificially' keeping prices high in the GPU sphere though. Nowhere near enough market share relative to nVidia and if they're just aping nVidia's prices... well you wouldn't blame Suzuki for overpriced cars if Toyota was doing the same because Toyota sells four times as many units and a lot of people buy their cars because they're Toyota and just work. Things are a lot closer in the CPU sphere though, and AMD has dropped prices a decent amount on 7000 series since they were selling embarrassingly badly. It will be interesting to see if TSMC's pretty hefty price cuts to get volume uptake will get passed along (or taken up even, hard to see if they're still going to charge for unused capacity on old nodes)- and they're probably the most guilty of price gouging a near monopoly of anyone, including peak Intel and nVidia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyrock Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 Turns out businesses gonna do business things, which is to say be as cutthroat and greedy as they can get away with. The key is to have multiple businesses competing in the same sector to (somewhat) keep each other in check. This is why we need Intel to get their GPUs up to snuff soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyrock Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 FSR 2.2 is out. The main talking point in the release notes is a reduction in ghosting that's sometimes present with upscaling of fast moving objects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bokishi Posted February 27 Share Posted February 27 I know FSR 3 going to get frame generation. It's a game changer in Hogwarts and Cyberpunk 1 Current 3DMark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majestic Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 Heh. 1 1 No voice to cry suffering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyrock Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 1 hour ago, majestic said: Heh. It looks like someone vomited a rainbow onto a GPU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoraptor Posted March 9 Author Share Posted March 9 Said it before, will say it again, I'd 100% buy a Yeston card if they were available here. It'd be like a little ray of sunshine peeking out of my case. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bartimaeus Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 (edited) Yeah, those Sakura cards have been around for a few generations now, I think. Have seen near endless mocking them. The actual color scheme on that purple-teal-pink one isn't that terrible if you're into that sort of thing, kinda almost Outrun-looking, but... Edited March 9 by Bartimaeus Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyrock Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 (edited) Ultimately, I don't much care what the GPU looks like, where my case sits on the ground you can't really see inside it anyway. The bigger issue is paying a premium above the reference card in exchange for -0.5% performance. Edited March 9 by Keyrock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoraptor Posted March 9 Author Share Posted March 9 Oh no, 597fps in TF2 instead of 600! and I don't even play TF2. I'd say can't put a price on happiness but that is of course incorrect as I'd have to buy a new PSU and a new case as well. Nearly 200USD under MSRP on an XFX 7900XT Speedster Merc here now. If it weren't for the above I'd be severely tempted since it's only just above my upper ceiling on price. May have been an awful value proposition at launch but knocking a quarter off the price- and that for a pretty decent AIB- makes it look so much better. Which may well have been the idea of the high initial price, of course. Suppose I could take an angle grinder to my case, not like I've actually used any 3.5" bays... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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