Looking at the advantages, the 7800xt has:

  1. 10% lower price

  2. 4 more gigs of vram

  3. 6% better raster performance.

The 4070 has:

  1. Better frame gen

  2. Better upscaling via dlss

  3. Better drivers

  4. Better rt performance

  5. CUDA for the few people that actually need it.

  6. Better power efficiency.

  7. The ability to use both dlss and fsr. If a game just has dlss, amd users are screwed.

All in all I think the AMD card is still the underdog based in advantages and needs to be at least 15% cheaper in order to sway buyers to team red. For just a $50 price difference, the team green advantages are too stacked imo.

Edit: this is of course in the US market. Every market is different.

  • ProphetoftheOnion@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    “Selling as expected”, means AMD have a certain amount of wafer supply pre-ordered, and to go beyond that might encur costs they won’t recuperate.

    AMD aren’t ready to beat nvidia this generation, most of their focus is on delivering Epyc backlog. Graphics is getting more R&D time and funding, but this is mostly for packaging knowledge and AI growth.

    Packaging is AMD’s current bottleneck, and it doesn’t matter which wafers they use. From what I’ve heard, Epyc, Zen and Radeon chiplet designs get packaged using the same resources. And AMD would rather be packaging Epyc parts.