I know Intel is dipping its toe into the GPU market, but let’s be real, AMD and nVidia are the only options and have been for the last 20+ years. The manufacturers/assemblers of the complete graphics cards are varied and widespread, but the core tech comes from two companies only.
Why is this the case? Or am I mistaken and am just brainwashed by marketing, and there are in fact other viable options for GPUs?
Cheers!
Not being able to play games? Not serious? What the hell are you talking about? Did you compare a 3090 to a bottom tier ATI Radeon card or something? My RX 6800 was a fucking champ that was able to run everything I threw at it without a single problem and with quite satisfactory performance at 1440p. It was most definitely a very competent GPU for gaming.
ML and nvenc are extra features that not everyone needs or even wants.
Maybe I’m misinformed, but can the RX 6800 do Path Tracing in CP2077 at 1440p native/~30fps or at least on DLSS Quality or even FSR Quality (in both upscalers cases with Ray Reconstruction and no frame generator ofc).
Can any AMD GPU do that at all, at a better price to performance point?
Because I was under the impression that basically no AMD cards can do practically any substantial RT of any kind, and that’s why it’s either missing on consoles or borderline unnoticeable and often confined to reflections where it’s pretty useless.
I just briefly looked it up, and all I could find was someone on steam discussions with an 79xx XTX card talking about the old timey simple Ray Tracing being “possible” at 1080p in cyberpunk on steam discussions. Granted there were some videos that looked promising but I steer clear of YT and reddit.
And as for features you don’t need, idk, to me if I have to buy a GPU, might as well get one that should be able to do more things rather than less for the money. I didn’t even play video games much when I got my 3090 years ago during summer 2021 for like $400 used from CeX, but I’m glad I got something that can, and something that can encode video well, whether it’s recording, editing and rendering gaming footage to share with friends, or transcoding media on a server, or do ML (eg for self hosting Immich).
If I were to buy a GPU now, i’d look at all features, even if I don’t want those things now, I’d ofc want them later, and for that - why would you choose an inferior option?