Quietly biting my lip on this one. Really big moment as after years of snobbery and ignorance from the mindshare buyers, I think a proportion of them will sample AMD just from the huge backlog alone, if you couple that with the concerns about the capacitor arrangement and 'crashing' then even more cancelling/RMA - perhaps the penny will drop.
I genuinely don't think it will because Nvidia fans always forget or more to the point, ignore actual facts. Here are some of the most famous Nvidia mess ups with either design/manufacturing, drivers, messed up launch, outright lies or even all of these at once.
- Bunpgate
- Fermi
- GTX970 VRAM lies
- Drivers that literally killed GPUs (I lost 2x GTX260s due to Nvidia drivers 196.75)
- Turing release with a massive price bump for pointless features that were (and still aren't) in any way mature enough.
- Excessive marketing lies (it just works, 2x performance etc)
- Locked down standards (G-Sync, PhysX)
Now we have RTX 30X0 rushed paper launch, with massively overpriced 3090 for a ~10% performance uplift over a competing card less than half its price (they are competing against their own top end GPU). Their own GPU that is half its price has manufacturing defects and serious supply issues.
I 100% guarantee these issues will ALL be ignored and forgotten in a few months. If RX 6X00 AMD GPUs are released in quantity, with lower price, better power efficiency and similar (or better) performance. You can bet the people who bought RTX 30X0 will find some reason AMD have failed. Pick one or all of the following, they are 2 months later than Nvidia, AMD drivers suck, Nvidia have better features. The only reasonable reply I have heard from a friend was, "I am locked in to G-Sync and refuse to change my monitor". Yet I got only silence when I reminded this individual he bought his G-Sync monitor
after Nvidia admitted defeat in the "VRR wars", when they eventually supported Freesync. So he is locked in due to his own lack off foresight, despite my recommendations to go Freesync at the time.
I am not remotely claiming AMD don't have issues but they are not as bad as Nvidia for the outright lying and marketing BS. The truth is when AMD mess up it is more due to incompetency than outright BS and lying. Other than when the muppet Raja was in charge of RTG (how does he keep getting work). The slightest thing results in AMD being labelled for life, Nvidia do much worse and people forget in a few months.
It's the GPU law and must be obeyed.
