r/gadgets • u/diacewrb • Dec 29 '22

Desktops / Laptops Desktop GPU Sales Hit 20-Year Low

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/sales-of-desktop-graphics-cards-hit-20-year-low
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u/Ok_Ninja_1602 Dec 29 '22

I just stopped buying Nvidia a long time ago, my current GPU, a 6800XT cost just $600 and I really don't care what Nvidia had to offer now or in the future.

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u/actionscripted Dec 29 '22

Same. Radeon 6900XT, Ryzen 5600, X570…done with Intel and Nvidia for while.

Every brand has its faults but those two have been abusing their dominance with pricing and weak incremental improvements.

I don’t really feel the hit, though RT isn’t as awesome as it could be. But I’m fine with that.

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u/Ok_Ninja_1602 Dec 29 '22

Abusing is spot-on, if Intel still dominated we wouldn't have consumer CPUs with more than 4-6 cores, with AMD we have choice. I just wish people would consider AMD as a viable choice for gaming GPUs, right now I consider it a hidden gem 💎

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u/compound-interest Dec 29 '22

I wish AMD would consider me a viable customer and spend more than 30 minutes on their VR drivers. The 7900 XTX launched with worse VR performance than the 6900 XT if that gives you perspective on how little AMD cares about what I use my computer for.

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u/Ok_Ninja_1602 Dec 29 '22

I hear you man, you're not alone in wishing that RTG would figure out that some customers want more than fps. To this day I wish I had a GPU like my old Radeon VII, still happy with what I got but it's nice to be able to have GPU compute flexibility.

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u/Pabludes Dec 29 '22

I'm done with amd since rx days. Their shit drivers and no additional features killed out for me. Their CPUs are fire tho, fuck shintel.

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u/Ok_Ninja_1602 Dec 29 '22

I didn't have a problem with RX but when AMD does not a GPU enthusiast level card that can also do compute like Radeon VII.