A couple generations back, Nvidia was the obvious choice and AMD just couldn’t compete. Nvidia had real-time ray tracing, AMD didn’t, Nvidia’s hardware video encoding was great, AMD’s sucked, Nvidia had CUDA, AMD pretty much didn’t, Nvidia had their DLSS frame gen technology, AMD either didn’t or it wasn’t very good.
Well, in most of those places, AMD has caught up, and they offer more VRAM in their lower tier products, at better prices.
Oh, and I’ve been hearing through the grapevine that Nvidia is dropping the ball with drivers. That used to be AMD’s bag, but AMD’s drivers are more solid these days.
Oh, and Nvidia’s weird new power socket keeps catching on fire. I’ve got a 7900GRE that attaches with two good old 8-pin PCIe connectors that offer a distinct lack of combustion.
Might just be a personal perspective, but the majority of Nvidia cards that I’ve seen purchased in my community (Not in germany tho) are second hand - most aren’t buying the 50 series due to their horrible pricing. People are buying AMD cards new though due to their good value proposition.
The power consumption of the 50xx cards is just insane, and this makes it a bad choice in Germany where electricity prices are very high. This means I have to pay a premium for the card, extra for the excessive power demands and potentially extra in summer to keep my gaming room cool.
I think the limiting factor for that one is availability depending on region. In the US the B580 is an amazing budget card, but AMD has a better distribution network in say LATAM nations.
This statistic refers only to enthusiasts who build their own PCs. It does not represent the overall PC market, laptops, or data-center and other business purchases.
I almost never see AMD GPU’s laptops. Like 10 years of them being a rarity. Don’t even know if they have a mobile available 9060 yet. I think don’t think AMD produce much laptop GPUs for vendors anyways
Is this just this week’s exception or is this representative of the retail market?
A couple generations back, Nvidia was the obvious choice and AMD just couldn’t compete. Nvidia had real-time ray tracing, AMD didn’t, Nvidia’s hardware video encoding was great, AMD’s sucked, Nvidia had CUDA, AMD pretty much didn’t, Nvidia had their DLSS frame gen technology, AMD either didn’t or it wasn’t very good.
Well, in most of those places, AMD has caught up, and they offer more VRAM in their lower tier products, at better prices.
Oh, and I’ve been hearing through the grapevine that Nvidia is dropping the ball with drivers. That used to be AMD’s bag, but AMD’s drivers are more solid these days.
Oh, and Nvidia’s weird new power socket keeps catching on fire. I’ve got a 7900GRE that attaches with two good old 8-pin PCIe connectors that offer a distinct lack of combustion.
Might just be a personal perspective, but the majority of Nvidia cards that I’ve seen purchased in my community (Not in germany tho) are second hand - most aren’t buying the 50 series due to their horrible pricing. People are buying AMD cards new though due to their good value proposition.
The power consumption of the 50xx cards is just insane, and this makes it a bad choice in Germany where electricity prices are very high. This means I have to pay a premium for the card, extra for the excessive power demands and potentially extra in summer to keep my gaming room cool.
American don’t think about that. Same reason poor people buy V8 pickups then complain about being poor.
That is an important aspect I didn’t consider, good catch.
While nobody is talking about the Intel B580, which was actually spectacular for the price.
I think the limiting factor for that one is availability depending on region. In the US the B580 is an amazing budget card, but AMD has a better distribution network in say LATAM nations.
Nvidia are selling many multiples of this volume to AI providers.
Gaming means essentially nothing in the big picture. (Outside of maybe prestige or similar)
This statistic refers only to enthusiasts who build their own PCs. It does not represent the overall PC market, laptops, or data-center and other business purchases.
Yeah, I just got a new gaming laptop. Nobody sells gaming laptops with AMD GPUs in my country. I looked! So I went with an AMD CPU and a 5070 instead.
I almost never see AMD GPU’s laptops. Like 10 years of them being a rarity. Don’t even know if they have a mobile available 9060 yet. I think don’t think AMD produce much laptop GPUs for vendors anyways
Afaik framework offers an option for AMD GPUs.