Nvidia 3000 series had/have the issues too. The problem is simply just very manuel work intensive and both companies have a lot to do otherwise so it just simply isn’t cost effective in the short term. Amd did, as mentioned, try to fix it a few months ago with a couple of drivers having a lot of focus on it. And I definitely think they will get it mostly fixed it just, unfortunately, takes time.

I was down to 40W with my dual 34" one 175 and one 100hz both 1440p before I left on a trip 2 weeks ago.

This is completely false logic what we are seeing is ever increasing visual fidelity and RT gets harder and harder to run. Just look at the old RT GPUs they become irrelevant with every new generation and that will be worse before it gets better. Maybe by 7000 series your possible future will come to fruition but today now and 5 years ahead things are looking very weak and every Nvidia GPU will become much faster obsolete instead of lasting better. It’s completely untrue point that isn’t true today so why would it be tomorrow?

Please think some more about it, you’re really not making sense.

Alan wake is a horror Puzzle game that’s 20 hours. How many popular horror Puzzle games is actually for a large amount of people? It’s a far cry from being anything for the mass market. I know that’s how they market it but it just isn’t. People will marvel at their 30 FPS path traced slide show because they have to find the joy in what they purchased but by far most people would enjoy the game more with it off, you know because you can actually run at 60 fps or more which for over a decade has been absolute minimum for a high end system.

The 4090 can’t even do 1080p ultra saying “look how good they do” when they are barely running the game is just weird.

And again again the 7900xtx wipes the floor with the 4080 without the tech that makes the game run like crap on all hardware. It’s not like 25 fps is actually usable for 1000+ dollar hardware. That’s simply unacceptable performance for anyone but diehard Nvidia tech fans.

In reality all this special sauce is cool I think noone disagrees, but its far from most of gaming. Even in the games it is cool you’re still actively degrading performance x2-3-4 times. There’s definitely something to be said about a native non RT image being better than upscaled-fg-rt/pt, but obviously at the cost of the very cool lighting/shadow tech. Which lets be honest for the most part(path tracing not withstanding) isn’t even better looking. It is more realistic though and I do appreciate that but at 30-60fps instead of 60-120? Eh it isn’t a clear win just different.

My main games this year is: Starfield, cp2077 dlc, diablo and call of duty. It’s one dlc of a game I finished 2 times where Nvidia tech actually matter.

I don’t give a shit about Alan wake. The first one was a glorified tech demo. The second part here seems more like a game but it’s also mostly just a tech demo/indie game and let’s be real most people wouldn’t give a crap about it if it wasn’t for the Nvidia promotion. Noone cared about the old one that’s for sure. People are told to care about this game by the green overlord but it’s the worst excuse ever for the Nvidia superiority. Doubly because even Nvidia can’t even run it properly. And if you actually want good performance aka non RT/pt AMD is even out performing Nvidia. 7900xtx being closer to 4090 than 4080 shows a real advantage that you can bet on instead of this tech that’s still very much vaporware/ not really used a lot.

Cp2077 and ratchet and clank those are 2 real games where Nvidia really trumps with their special sauce. And are we really so blinded that we are gonna make purchasing off of a few outliers in a sea of it literally just not mattering?

The answer is yes because fomo not because the Nvidia special sauce is anything much.