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I've never bought Nvidia but they become more like Apple every day. Why be consumer friendly for niche PC builders? The average gamer already associates Nvidia with performance so it's time to rely on good ol brand loyalty!
The problem is, it's not just an assosiation. NVIDIA cards are the fastest cards hands down. I wish Intel and AMD would provide competition on the high end, but they just don't do it.
Even worse, the best next gen AMD GPU won't even beat AMDs best last gen GPU, they even say this themselves.
To me, buying Nvidia for performance is like buying an APC as a daily driver for work because of it's safety rating. The cost long term does not at all seem worth it.
The APC has serious drawbacks besides the costs when used as a daily driver. I haven't noticed any drawbacks with my GPU, and if I had the money I would have bought a faster one.
I do wish however that AMD and Intel would compete in the high end, because I am not an Nvidia fanboy. Real competition would result in lower prices and maybe also better products.
We are in a similar situation with GPUs now compared to where we were with CPUs before Ryzen came out. Everything above a quad core on Intels side was so expensive back then and real progress was not happening.
AMD have the right idea in trying to target the value to performance crowd. People that want every dollar to count. You get diminishing returns the higher you reach and that's the biggest drawback to Nvidia. The abysmal value.
But I hate Nvidia from a moral perspective as well. Proprietary software, paying game developers to use that software, inflated claims that their hardware will play those games better because of that software, then convincing the average public they just have a superior product when all they're really good at is what amounts to bribes.
Ryzen has been more effective than RX because Intel had zero ability to respond and still doesn't. They went to make GPUs because they couldn't break the wall for CPUs. Before AMD crawled out of the grave, Nvidia and Intel had a full blown market monopoly. Inescapable.
I'm not interested in that continuing, so I'll stick out a 7% worse product for $200 less and hope that throwing money at AMD will get them to compete on the bleeding edge with Nvidia like they are with Intel.