At the money asking to be spent, I'm not fucking pity buying a product. The fuck kinda shit is this?
Pity buying? If you wanna call it that, that's your business. To me, it's not pity buying.
I'm not buying their product because I'm somehow sorry for AMD. I want competition in the market. AMD brought us some great performance this time around. They might not be as good at RT, but the products deliver on general performance and power consumption, something that AMD was not able to do for quite a while. And they have more VRAM to boot. The choice is quite simple....
1) You buy nVidia and support the company that has been practically a monopoly and trying extremely hard to single out the competition and artificially jacked up prices with the RTX2000 series, just so that you yourself can brag about having 'the best of the best' and feel good about your purchase.
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2) You buy AMD and support the only other company capable of bringing competition in the market. And even if the card has some shortcomings now (and some advantages), ultimately we all will experience better prices and better cards with better features because the competition was able to put more into R&D.
I am not one of those people that want AMD around just so that I can buy nVidia at lower prices. I want balance in the market, and that will not be achieved by blindly supporting the newest shiny toy.
So, as I said, I vote with my money. You're free vote with yours. And, of course, voting with my money also means not paying for ridiculous prices. When I saw the price of the 6800XT Nitro+, the first thing I said is, I'm not paying that much for that card. That's called being a conscious consumer.
Buy for performance, regardless of who has it.
AMD has got the performance. So does nVidia. The point is, what else do you care about? Just to have the so-called 'best of the best' so that you can have a dopamine rush for a few weeks? Or do you prefer the gaming landscape to become more sustainable with healthy competition..?
Who ever got the best raytracing, rasterization, and feature set, is the one who gets my money.
Buying things just because it has the feature set is not a wise decision if you're not going to use the majority of that feature set anyway. If you are, good. But the majority of people won't, and they simply buy certain things to feel like they are in the cool kids club. And that, is destructive. So just so you know, buying AMD is supporting both camps, while buying nVidia is supporting monopolistic behavior and thus supporting the downfall of PC gaming.
I can already see the laugh reacts happening, and, I don't care.
Not because I feel bad for them lol.
Neither do I. I actually feel bad for the ones freely taking the pole even deeper without knowing it.