It’s also the fact that FSR is worse than DLSS, that AMF is worse than nvenc, that their raytracing performance is not even close, and that AFMF isn’t as good as DLSS frame generation, and that the drivers aren’t as stable, and so on and so on and so on…
The whole product is just… not strictly equivalent, and the price difference isn’t the reason that I don’t really look too hard at AMD cards.
If AMD gets to equivalency with FSR, AMF, and AFMF that’d make their cards FAR more compelling than a $100 lower price tag would.
I bought an AMD card even though NVIDIAs upscaling is much better. With the added raw performance for the same price, I’m not going to need to rely as much on upscaling. It starts making less and less sense the higher your budget goes though.
the problem on the Nvidia front is that vram capacities are hitting the midrange gpus to the point that they may actually lose said features. in particular with the 4070 ti and slower, vram usage gets to the point where the user may not be able to use all features and half to selectively use them because each feature has their own vram cost attached to it.
outside of the 4060 ti 16gb you have to spend 800 to get the 4070 ti super to get 16gb vram
Other than ray tracing, those are all gimmicky. You should buy the card that can run the games you want to play at the resolution you want to play them at. During the RTX 3000 vs RX 5000 generation, AMD had substantially better price to performance for everything except ray tracing. Now, that’s changed, and AMD is a much less appealing deal.
It’s not just price, at least for me.
It’s also the fact that FSR is worse than DLSS, that AMF is worse than nvenc, that their raytracing performance is not even close, and that AFMF isn’t as good as DLSS frame generation, and that the drivers aren’t as stable, and so on and so on and so on…
The whole product is just… not strictly equivalent, and the price difference isn’t the reason that I don’t really look too hard at AMD cards.
If AMD gets to equivalency with FSR, AMF, and AFMF that’d make their cards FAR more compelling than a $100 lower price tag would.
I bought an AMD card even though NVIDIAs upscaling is much better. With the added raw performance for the same price, I’m not going to need to rely as much on upscaling. It starts making less and less sense the higher your budget goes though.
FSR is still pretty good, especially considering it works on almost any GPU. DLSS does not. By far.
Also, Linux.
the problem on the Nvidia front is that vram capacities are hitting the midrange gpus to the point that they may actually lose said features. in particular with the 4070 ti and slower, vram usage gets to the point where the user may not be able to use all features and half to selectively use them because each feature has their own vram cost attached to it.
outside of the 4060 ti 16gb you have to spend 800 to get the 4070 ti super to get 16gb vram
Other than ray tracing, those are all gimmicky. You should buy the card that can run the games you want to play at the resolution you want to play them at. During the RTX 3000 vs RX 5000 generation, AMD had substantially better price to performance for everything except ray tracing. Now, that’s changed, and AMD is a much less appealing deal.