And to think I was just about to buy a $400 2060 Super. I don't think I'll be doing that anymore.
But the cost of a 2080ti was ridiculous especially considering the open secret of its impending obsolescence.
AMD really need to up their marketing budget. From the zeitgeist I've no idea where their lineup sits comparatively. No wonder they only have 20% market share
AMD got on top of Intel by creating hardware that delivers. Just a few years ago AMD CPUs were economical, but the performance was abysmal, especially in single-threaded applications by comparison. They didn't make a product for the high-end.
I am eagerly awaiting what the next series of AMD cards are going to be able to do. They're talking a big game for sure. But Nvidia has a big software advantage as well as a hardware advantage on AMD and that's likely to be a sticking point for me personally on my next purchase. Nvidia spends a lot of resources on working closely with developers and providing them support they need to take better advantage of the hardware with nvidia-specific features. AMD doesn't seem to do the same, and has had much higher profile issues with their drivers in my experience.
All that said, I hope AMD can provide a product to truly compete at the high-end with Nvidia, to hopefully drive prices down as GPU prices have gone up dramatically on the high end.
The main reason my 2012 build of a PC is holding up ok was PCIE 3.0 support, so for me PCIE 4.0 is a must. The only thing I ever upgraded was the GPU and HDD. Went from 670 -> 980 -> 2060 Super. The i7-3370k (OC to about 4.3Ghz) has held up ok. The 16GB DD3-1866Mhz is slow however. Switching from a 2TB 5200 RPM drive to a 2TB NVMe SSD (Samsung EVO 860) for which I had to get a riser card since the ASROCK z77 Extreme 4 doesn't have m.2 made a huge difference also. When I upgraded to the RTX 2060 Super I ran out of PCI 3.0 lanes, and as a result my SSD is running slower, but that's ok.
Suprisingly, I can play the new Microsoft Flight simulator just fine in 3440x1440 resolution on High Settings. Assassin's Creed Odyssey runs well in 1440p Ultra at ~60 FPS.
But as a lighting nerd, I do want the raytracing...
So they have doubled in price since then? wtf?
https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=100007709%20601341487%20601341...
Still, less than $300 for this card has been a great bargain. I've since picked up a 1440p screen and it's happily chugging along. Been most of a year and they're still selling for substantially more than this.
Anyway, ain't no $200 RX 5700.
The launch prices were $350 for the 5700 and $400 for the 5700 XT (after the pre-release price drop response to Nvidia), so $260 was $90 under list price, or 25% off.
And really, even finding a GPU for list price instead of being marked up for mining ethereum (or whatever else) was a bit of a miracle compared to the last few years of GPU price insanity.