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That is just not true. A simple read on the amd GPU thread on the forum - or in fact in ANY forum, will shed some light. I've never, ever, ever seen a question regarding whether or not you should install the new drivers on an nvidia thread. It's quite abundant on amd threads. That says all that needs to be said don't you think? The actual users of amd gpus are reluctant to install new drivers, lmao
Yep, I was all against the price increases until my 4080 arrived but I understood at least part of the rise when I picked it up. It weighs nearly twice what my 3080 did and that was itself huge compared to all my previous cards. If TSMC raised prices on chips by 30% and the build costs had to rise to make these behemoths, then I could understand a 50% increase in the end product (i.e. £700+350= £1050 for a 4080.)
Sadly they are still even higher than that which is where I think they are just trying to be greedy and to force sell through of the remaining 3000 series cards by making them seem better value until stock runs out.
To play devil's advocate, AMD definitely DID have a lot of weird driver problems in the past but recently things have been pretty good. The rumoured driver that was causing 6000 series chips to crack was due to moisture on post mining cards. They have still had 1 legitimate bug in the last few months which they fixed.
I'm not cherry picking, I'm just telling you if you read or any other tech forum youll find all you need to know regarding drivers stability between the 2 companies. Not from random people, from actual users of said gpus.
Yep, it wasn't aimed at you Bencher, rather the prior post listing all the Nvidia problems and none from AMD, then you saying you have never heard of Nvidia having problems. I replied to you with examples I have personally experienced
I never said nvidia never had problems. Actually I had a few myself ( black screens on my 3090).
Sorry, I must have misunderstood you
Now they are. During launch they weren't. The xt was around 130 euro more expensive through the whole Europe for the longest time. At that price it was losing on every front
Thats the price the XTX and 4080 should have launched at the 7900XT and 4070ti should have been around $500-600
That's the problem, amd didn't correct it. Market did, because of poor sales. Amd wanted to sell you a card thats worse on almost every metric for a higher price. 15% higher in fact.
I don't think it would have been that bad, there is less demand for PC parts in general now compared to last time in the midst of the pandemic and miners are not interested now either.
The 6900XT was a 90 competitor though while the 7900XTX is an 80 competitor so should be priced more like what an 80 class product has traditionally sold for, do you think it would have been priced at 1k if Nvidia had released a 4080 using a 102 die for $700 again?I see your game here, making me be that guy
The 7900XTX is 47% faster than the 6900XT its replaced for the same launch MSRP, the 4090 is 22% faster for 60% more money.
its £150 cheaper than the 4080 while being 10% faster and has 24GB vs a not unreasonable 16GB.
Its perfectly ok.
