Yesterday, AMD presented its new graphics cards. Cards based on RDNA3 and so the promising design could be seen as the promise of powerful and cheaper cards. Yes tonight with AMD, ” Together we advance gaming “. We advance nothing in fact. We will come back soon on the details of these two cards, the main lines of which have been leaked lately. The real conclusion of all this is that AMD and Nvidia are in a car, holding hands and going straight into a wall while singing. So the optimists will say that with $999 and $899 cards AMD is doing better than its green competitor. No doubt, $899 for a card (announced) more powerful than NVIDIA’s RTX 3090 Ti, with a contained TDP and that doesn’t require weird cables to power it. A card that can also handle the encoding and decoding of 8K60 content from the AV1 codec while providing a DisplayPort 2.1 connector allowing you to play Roblox in 4K 460Hz is not so bad. A card that will be found in Europe probably above 1000€ when its older sister the 7900XTX will exceed 1200€.
Again and again, prices are too high… Especially at this time.
So yes, we are angry because these cards could pass if our friends from AMD and Nvidia would also take care of the others, the normal people who until now thought that the GTX/RTX xx70 generation was their zone. Those that make the volume, those that buy and keep the PC ecosystem alive. But since Covid and mining these people are forgotten. You’d think that if we ate overpriced PCs and accepted crazy margins for almost two years it’s only because we liked it. In short, go to sleep with a good chamomile tea and we’ll see more clearly tomorrow.
