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2023 was the year that GPUs stood still (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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2023 was the year that GPUs stood still::A new GPU generation did very little to change the speed you get for your money.

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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Thats only nvidia though. Amd seems to still be trying to compete with nvidia some way or another

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I wouldn't say so, they also seem to have abandoned the gaming segment and nowadays are playing more or less ball with NVIDIA while trying to improve their AI stack so that they can get a higher chunk of the data centre business.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I don't think that's true at all. Let's go back a while.

    We had Polaris, a mid range 2016 architecture that was sold for years as a mid range then low end card.

    They also had the Vega cards, which were compute-focussed and not particularly great at gaming.

    Following that, they had the 5700 series. Decent gaming cards.

    After that, the 6000s series. Right up there with Nvidia, and taking into consideration the die size, performance, and comparatively generous VRAM, you could argue they were the better gaming cards, despite losing in RT.

    7000s series is pretty much like the 6000 except slightly further behind the 4090, albeit for half the real-world price due to AI demand bringing the already crazy 4090 prices even higher.

    Idk to me it seems AMD is more competitive in gaming now than they have been for a long time.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Absolutely, AMD is very focused on Datacenter/AI now. They just presented their next gen AI system MI300X which made AMD stock go up significantly, and on the CPU side their server CPU Epyc is where the big money is at.
    That said AMD is still into gaming hardware because they work with both Sony and Microsoft on making new consoles, what we get on the desktop from AMD, is probably mostly derived from that on the GPU side.

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