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Nvidia Ampere vs AMD RDNA2, Who Won The GPU Generation (So Far)?

Wrinkly said:
Not hard to see the gap once again.

  • Legacy rasterisation has been a draw between RDNA2 and Ampere.
  • RT tipped the scales heavily in Ampere's favour with up to twice the performance of RDNA2.
  • Hardware AI support was MIA with RDNA2 allowing Nvidia to provide superior image quality with DLSS, while AMD floundered with FSR based on a 30year old algorithm.

If they were athletes then Nvidia took gold at the Olympics, while AMD turned up a day late for the Special Olympics.

With Intel already backing RT and AI, while also working with Nvidia on Nvidia's Streamline, AMD really need to decide if they wish to be in the desktop market.



Nvidia, Intel and Hardware Vendor #3 :eek:
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AMD have not had anything to really push Nvidia back and make them think, oh wait a minute we have to try harder and this I think is due to money on AMD's side but also the lack of quality assurance too for end users, we should not still be reiterating past issues with drivers, not like Nvidia don't have them of course but the 5700-XT was not long ago https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/tz8nla/recent_driver_instability_for_5700xt/, plus they keep spouting nonsense that most people are wiser to such as Vram and them spiting their own faces when they then released the 6500 XT which is a 4GB GPU going against their own dumb marketing. They did this with AMD FX too. We have 1 game that came close to their claims but even that is not a large enough issue.

The issue AMD are having is two fold from what I can tell, lack of budget and time to iron out issues but also underestimating the general intelligence Knowledge of the people who buy GPU's for gaming, they will always have a loyal fan base, heck the Sega Saturn still has a loyal fan base even if it was objectively the worst console. The console died a fated death as did Sega after the Sega Dreamcast. Still loyalty is not on the side of progression or facts that aid growth.

Team Red really geared up with their CPU's, but here we are again and Intel is a larger company with more money to throw at projects, they are back and are the better buy vs Ryzen.

They are also making ridiculous moves..


People think loyalty to an under-dog makes them look better, it can but the truth of the matter is an end consumer is parting with money, you can sure as hell think I am after the better experience here as are many and Nvidia are the way forwards for now, Intel seem to be ramping up the competition head on and this is excellent news! we need competition and someone to put Nvidia in their place tech wise.

I hope Team Red can pull a fast one, otherwise they are about to get trounced by two mega companies.

The fact that AMD do have a good foot hold in the console market to make income and leave impressions is great, but they cannot rely on that, it is not the same market as the PC market.
 
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Nvidia have come out on top but then they had a sizeable lead prior to this generation. AMD catching up in high end rasterisation performance after a fairly significant time of being behind is very impressive however, and I hope this trend continues.
 
AMD did a great job pushing rasterization, but they essentially focused all resources on only 1 battle. nVidia's DLSS and RT leads are now looking insurmountable without significant investment, both technologies are now highly mature and widely adopted with a minimal barrier to entry.
 
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