wookiecfk
This is a fair point.
Personally I would still risk it with 3070 if it crashes soon (and deal is good I suppose). 3080 not so much, VRAMs cooling on those is a disaster. Those will be timebombs.
Yeah the 3070 is safer, regular GDDR6 doesn't run as hot. 3080s & 3090s that are coming off mining rigs are definitely going to be timebombs if crypto crashes & people sell off their parts.
sealancer
Dabadger84
Conclusion, let us hope AMD closes the gap further so NVidia has some real competition, not just for the sake of it might kick NVidia in the pants & make them handle launches better, but also so that we actually HAVE another option if NVidia boggles the next launch again, to go with AMD instead.
Agreed , I am sick of the games companies play with us. Not just competition but also if there is steady supply of competitors product then the companies will be forced to respond or risk losing market.
Yep, that's exactly what we need - Not that AMD is going to close the market overnight, because their drivers are still a dumpsterfire at times, but them gaining 5+% on NVidia in one quarter would slap them around enough to maybe knock some sense in to them.
I'm also hoping Intel's second gen GPUs will be decent... their first gen that's for regular desktop users will most likely be garbage except in the budget sector, but I hope they don't abandon it if their initial foray doesn't go well. Having a 3rd player in that market would be quite nice, but I'd expect Intel won't be able to actually compete with AMD & NVidia at the high end for at least another 3-5 years probably.
But what we need to happen is sort of what's happening in the CPU market now, AMD actually challenging Intel & having CPUs that are great at gaming again, market share will flow their way over the course of this year, then hopefully Intel will finally innovate again instead of sticking to 14nm++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ lol