IKR. At least this is what Nvidia has spent the last 5 years programming people to do. Why spend $700 when you can spend $1200 and get RTX. Why spend $1200 when you can spend $1999. Sorry that was for miners we'll throw you a bone and charge $1600.If you are willing to pay $1200 why not save a little more and spend $1600
People sure do show their lack of principles when confronted with the actual prospect of spending over $1k for a video card.
Typical thread responses
If the competition doesn't blow my favorite brand out of the water, then I am not switching. If the competition does not force my favorite brand to drop prices, I am not switching. If the competition doesn't revolutionize in the face of my favorite brand, then I am not switching.
I mean shit just admit you were never a neutral buyer and have brand preference at least most here wouldn't look at these responses as the jokes they are.
Look at all the goal post moving going on in here.
The card is blowing away last gen by over 40%. Yea but it sucks in ray tracing as it can only match last gen
--As like last gen suddenly became a goddamn joke overnight and the 3090 / Ti were not good enough to begin with in raytracing
The card's value is beating anything Nvidia is selling. Yea but when you spend $1000 might as well save $200-$600 more to pay for X or Y or Z.
--Unless AMD or any other competition copies and beats Nviidia at their own game they will never switch brands. Its only rationalization of overspending to avoid buyer's remorse. Because lets be honest why spend $700 for a flagship of yesteryear when you can just save a little more and spend $1000 for a flagship. See how idiotic that thinking is?
The card offers better raw fps at the same wattage, 51% improved raytracing performance over RDNA2, is 30% cheaper value per frame than the competion. Yea but, it doesn't have Nvidia driver, DLSS butt plugs, streaming encoders, tensor cores, and IS NOT Nvidia.
So there I summed up this thread for anyone coming in. AMD made a 4080 competitor. They have improved over last gen by 40%+ in every metric. All this while keeping things in the same power envelope and at the same value per FPS as current day offerings ($8 / fps). If that is not good enough to make it a consideration picking up the card in the next 2+ gen upgrade (GTX 1080/RTX 2xxx or RX580/5700). Look in the mirror and admit to yourself that you bought into the branding, have brand bias that borders on the same level as console fanbois.
The "yea buts" and goalpost movers just present themselves as jokes when they respond as they do. It was never going to be good enough, you were deluding youself in hopes AMD would Jebait Nvidia into dropping prices into something more palattable to you, and were just plain never going to buy any of these products to begin with. We all sit on our $400-600 gpus video cards typing like we speak of experiences we wish we had. Its funny how everyone never speaks of the RTX 2xxx series and just thanks their lucky stars they had a 1080Ti to last them 5 years to get by on that they didn't have to (silently mouths vomiting) move to AMD for a replacement. Now that AMD is out all that shit talking about $1200-$1600 disappears and it suddenly is an option and isn't so bad an Idea. Get the F*** of your high horse.