Dannar26
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It's not just Software. NVidia added dedicated HW ML cores to it's consumer GPUs in 2018. 5 years later and AMD still hasn't. At this point ML cores are everywhere. Smartphones have them.
Since the Phoenix APU has them, I'm fairly confident the RDNA 4 GPUs finally will, but that will be too late for me.
It's unfortunate, but it would take a fairly massive discount to consider an AMD part given the feature deficit.
AMD really needs to pay more attention to the feature gap, so they aren't just losing sales to buyers that are interested in more than just Raster performance.
Bottom line: It's much better, to get feature parity, than it is to try and take market share with pricing.
Are we talking about the Tensor cores? The things that run DLSS?
What does it matter that smartphones have machine learning cores? Is my sock drawer somehow deficient because there's not a clock built into it?
If AMD releases a better product tomorrow, why would that be "too late?" Is the momentum of your past purchases physically pulling at you or something?
I buy GPUs based on price/perf. Even with these BS prices, AMD still comes out ahead more often than not. I just bought at 6950XT for $600...where's the nvidia card that beats it for that price? I've built rigs for my kids as well, all on AMD GPUs. Again, not because I love team red, but because people are selling 2060s/3050s for the price of 6600/6600XT/6650XTs. You'd have to be mad to buy a 2060 thinking it's a better deal than a 66xx card.
I think things like Ray Tracing and DLSS are cool, but let's be real, it just isn't there yet. With the possible exception of Minecraft, I don't see ray racing making a big enough impact to justify the absolute murder it does to FPS, and even then we're taking a game that should get 200FPS and dragging it down to 60. DLSS, while a really neat way to get some frames, isn't quite ubiquitous either.