Do PC gamers feel 12GB of VRAM is simply not enough for the money in 2024?

  • @Rakonat
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    951 year ago

    Nvidia over pricing their cards and limiting stock, acting like there is still a gpu shortage from all the crypto bros sucking everything up.

    Right now, their competitors are beating them at hundreds of dollars below nvidias mrp like for like with the only true advantage nvidia has is in ray tracing and arguably VR.

    It’s possible we’re approaching another shorter with the AI bubble though for the moment that seems to be pretty far off.

    TL;DR Nvidia is trying to sell a card at twice it’s value cause greed.

    • @Evilcoleslaw
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      1 year ago

      They’re beating AMD at ray tracing, upsampling (DLSS vs FSR), VR, and especially streaming (NVENC). For the latter look at the newly announced beta partnership with Twitch and OBS which will bring higher quality transcoding and easier setup only for Nvidia for now and soon AV1 encoding only for Nvidia (at first anyway).

      The raw performance is mostly there for AMD with the exception of RT, and FSR has gotten better. But Nvidia is doing Nvidia shit and using the software ecosystem to entrench themselves despite the insane pricing.

      • mihies
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        61 year ago

        And they beat AMD in efficiency! I’m (not) surprised that people ignore this important aspect which matters in noise, heat and power usage.

        • @MonkderZweite@feddit.ch
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          201 year ago

          Toms Hardware did a test, Rx 6800 is leader there. Next, RTX 3070, is 4.3% worse. Are their newer cards more efficient than AMD’s newer cards?

          • @pycorax
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            51 year ago

            They seem to be but honestly, this generation hasn’t been very impressive for both team green and red. I got a 6950 XT last year and seeing all these new releases has only proven that I made a good investment.

            • @Daveyborn
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              21 year ago

              Nothing compelling enough for me to hop off of a titan Xp yet. (Bought a titan because it was cheaper than a 1070 at the time because of scalpers)

          • @Crashumbc
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            21 year ago

            30 series maybe.

            40 series power usage Nvidia destroys AMD.

            The 4070 uses WAY less than a 3070… It’s 200 (220 for supera) that’s nearly more than my 1070 170w

      • @umbrella@lemmy.ml
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        41 year ago

        Streaming performance is really good on AMD cards, IME. Upscaling is honestly close and getting closer.

        I dont think better RT performance is worth the big premium or annoyances nvidia cards bring. Doubly so on Linux.

        • @Evilcoleslaw
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          1 year ago

          True enough. I was thinking more of the gaming use case. But even beyond AI and just a general compute workload they’re beating the pants off AMD with CUDA as well.

    • @genie
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      161 year ago

      Couldn’t agree more! Abstracting to a general economic case – those hundreds of dollars are a double digit percentage of the overall cost! Double digit % cost increase for single digit % performance doesn’t quite add up @nvidia :)

      Especially with Google going with TPUs for their AI monstrosities it makes less and less sense at large scale for a consumers to pay the Nvidia tax just for CUDA compatibility. Especially with the entrance of things like SYCL that help programmers avoid vendor lock.