• grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 day ago

    I’ve been buying AMD GPUs since before they stopped being ATI. I need a new GPU soon, and there’s a 0% chance I would buy Nvidia.

    However, I might very well buy an Intel GPU this time, and the decision depends entirely on AMD’s pricing.

    • ferret@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      Intel’s killer feature, imo, is a media engine that is competitive with nvidia’s. AMD’s latest and greatest still can’t hardware decode non-chroma-subsampled (4:4:4) video of any kind.

  • OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    I can’t say they’ll screw it up, but I will say that AMD won’t produce enough cards to move the market or bring prices down. Their current lineup is still selling above MSRP, meaning there’s more demand than supply.

    AMD, like any company, would rather earn a fat profit margin on a few sales than a thin profit margin on a ton of sales. It’s less work for them, plus high prices keep their add-in board partners happy.

    We had to listen to them bitch and whine about having to make more 9800X3Ds and that’s their darling, so I really don’t think they’re going to show much love to their red-headed stepchild, Ruby*.

    * An ATI reference, for you young people.

    • kbal@fedia.io
      2·
      1 day ago

      Sure they’d rather have a fat profit if it would be sustainable at all, but like the lunatic on the internet yelling into a camera says, what they’d need for that to happen is customers.

  • Schmuppes@lemmy.today
    4·
    2 days ago

    I was counting on AMD to fuck it up and got myself a last minute deal on a new open box 7900 XT. I thought that I could then stop thinking about the RDNA 4 cards, but I’m once again starting to get giddy and wanna know how the 9070 XT performs and what bang for the buck looks like.

    • Jesus_666@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Last generation I got a 4080, hoping that it’d mean I wouldn’t have to upgrade again for the next five years. That 4080 turned out to be unstable and had terrible drivers even on Windows so I got an XTX instead, which I’m very happy with.

      I’d still want my GPU to last a while but I gotta be honest, I am curious about what kind of performance gains AMD have on tap this time around.