AMD will be very happy when they do. They are already making great cards, currently running an RX7800XT (or something like that), and it's amazing. Linux support is great too
RX 7900gre, can confirm as much.
The post-GeForce era: What if Nvidia abandons PC gaming?
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#22Re: The post-GeForce era: What if Nvidia abandons PC gaming?
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Millions of people.
But if it didn't exist, those people would likely be playing something else.
If no pc hardware exists eventually there will be no games to play. Then you will have a bunch of angry gamers at the park pissing everyone off.
If my hobby is ruined and I can’t have fun, I’m going to be an asshole and make everyone else unhappy.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Huh? No? It means that the overall platform is already at 'good enough' level. There can always be an improvement, but in terms of pure visuals, we are already past at a point, where some studios choose simple representations ( see some 2d platformers ) as a stylistic choice. It gonna be ok.
My pc is good enough for now but it’s years old and when it dies, then what? You want me to give up gaming and start hanging out at your local bar?
It is not a question of want. Gaming will exist in some form so I am simply uncertain what you are concerned about.
Can you elaborate a little? What, exactly, is your concern here? That you won't have nvidia as a choice? That AMD will be the only game in town? That gpu market will move from duopoly ( for gaming specifically ) to monopoly? I have little to go on, but I don't really want to put words in your mouth based on minimal post.
Re: The post-GeForce era: What if Nvidia abandons PC gaming?
#25Shrug and buy the next best thing?
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
But if it didn't exist, those people would likely be playing something else.
If no pc hardware exists eventually there will be no games to play. Then you will have a bunch of angry gamers at the park pissing everyone off. If my hobby is ruined and I can’t have fun, I’m going to be an asshole and make everyone else unhappy.
Ahaha are you trolling for entitled gamers? Yeah wouldn't want the real world having to face those. No worries: as long as there are people willing to drop money into expensive gear, somebody will sell it.
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#27I don’t think they can.
NVIDIA, like everyone else on a bleeding edge node, has hardware defects. The chance goes up massively with large chips like modern GPUs. So you try to produce B200 cores but some compute units are faulty. You fuse them off and now the chip is a GP102 gaming GPU.
The gaming market allows NVIDIA to still sell partially defective chips. There’s no reason to stop doing that. It would only reduce revenue without reducing costs.
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#28If NVIDIA exits the market, there is still AMD, Intel and PowerVR (Imagination Technologies is back at making discrete PC GPUs, although currently only in China).
Unfortunately none of those are any use for video work.
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I was tempted to respond with an offhand comment about the size of the industry or similar, but what axe do you have to grind about PC gaming? You'd prefer folks go to the far more injurious mobile gaming space?