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Not at the higher end, it doesn't.
Have you seen nvidia 5 series? AMD is accidentally higher end now.
Yeah, they suck, but they at least exist, AMD flat out said they're not even gonna try anymore.
dunno about this generation cause im not in the market for new parts, but amd usually comes within spitting distance at much lower prices.
it makes less and less sense to buy nvidia as time passes, yet people still do.
Well, that's just not true. I've been using AMD exclusively for 10 years now and they haven't had a proper competitor to NVIDIA's high end in since then. I'm willing to settle for less performance to avoid a shitty company but some people aren't. It can't make "less and less sense" to go with NVIDIA if they're the only ones making the product you want to buy. More importantly, though: it doesn't matter. The point is that people wanting performance above a 4080 are screwed because NVIDIA shat the bed with the 5000 series and AMD just doesn't exist at that price point so the comment I'm replying to makes no sense.
The crushing majority of people are not spending $3000 on a graphics card. Chasing the fastest for the sake of it is something most people are not doing.
All other pricepoints are covered, and slightly better served on average at that by AMD.
Welp. That's another lie. Until very recently, if you wanted performance over NVIDIA's 60-tier on AMD, your only options were the Vega 56, 64 or the Radeon VII, which were all trash. It wasn't until the 6000 series that AMD was able to come close to NVIDIA's 80-tier and they've come out and said they're not doing that anymore, so we have a grand total of TWO high end Radeon cards. Your assertion that AMD has covered every price point below $3000 is pure fantasy.
you took a specific period where, yes, AMD was struggling.
my assertion is correct because we are not at that time anymore.
Did you miss the part where I pointed out AMD said they were gonna stop trying with high end? We were barely out of it for 2 generations and now we're right back into it.
I explicitly said they don't have the most powerful GPU.
They don't have any powerful GPU. Stop it with the denial, brother.
wtf are you on about, they usually can beat all but the biggest one.
That's not true. Again, they have had 2 good cards in the last 10 years.
Very few people actually need or more make use of the power that nvidia's high end cards provide