The biggest problem with people talking about these things, including dummies like ATV, is that they keep framing this discussion in terms of simple moves, as if AMD is a bakery and they should just tweak the dough a bit, not understanding the time horizon of this industry and the way these moves are made. The reality is AMD made the moves we see today many years ago, and so whatever adjustments to the strategy they will make we will only see long after they are made, so any discussions of what they "should" do from us the masses is pointless - we have incomplete information and even that only years later; yeah, good luck making assessments with that! Ultimately this all ends up as nothing more than yapping.
As for the title question, the answer is: yes, obviously. AMD gives you the option of a cheaper GPU & more vram and overall better value if you don't care about RT, as well as providing a counter-weight to Nvidia's monopolistic tendencies - if you think things are bad now, just imagine if Nvidia DIDN'T have to think of AMD at all. So that's a clear benefit.
Yeah, agreed.
Exactly this. The idea of Nvidia having absolutely no competition is awful.
AMD haven’t been this competitive for years. I don’t know what people are expecting but maybe they are looking at different reviews to me because they are highly competitive and have a ton of features now days. I’ve got a 4090 and a 7900 xt, also had a 6950xt, 6900xt, 6800xt and a 6700xt…! And they have all be superb cards with excellent ownership experience. I don’t get why everyone is so negative about AMD in the GPU space. They offer a feature rich alternative. The 7900 XTX is a powerhouse with tons of a vram available at a comparable price to a 4080.
That in itself is excellent for everyone, including Nvidia.
RDNA2 is by far the best architecture AMD have made in many many years, if you ignore its RT performance, which for me to use Nvidia's example anything from the 3080 down you should because in terms of usable performance its just a token feature at that point.
The best card from that generation is the RTX 3090, i think we can all agree on that, great card, but a bit pricey, and that's fine, its a halo card designed for people for who money is no object, ok good.
I think the best card for the mass market from that generation are the RX 6600XT / 6650XT, RX 6700XT / 6750XT and the RX 6800, that last one is the one i really like but AMD have pretty much EOL that one, its almost impossible to find, they are not hugely better than the RTX 3060 <> 3070Ti but they are IMO better for a couple of reasons and cheaper, right what we all argue AMD should be doing, this is AMD doing that, so hows it going? Steam Hardware Survey has the RTX 3060 9X as many as the RX 6600XT and 6700XT put together, going from that Nvidia sold 20X more 3060's than AMD sold RX 6600XT's which is AMD's second highest ranking RDNA2 GPU, the highest being the 6700XT.
So where AMD should be at their best, in fact are at their best, they have 5% market share. Every single 3000 series, other than the RTX 3050Ti, which i didn't even know was a thing, is ranked higher.
What more do they have to do? And AMD can see these comparisons better than we can.
that's not a lack of bandwidth, its a lack of VRam, this slide has done the rounds for an entirely different reason, look at all the 8GB cards....
