• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    AMD is a puppydog that follows Nvidia around on the open market with 10% or less market share. If Nvidia constricts supply and causes a massive price jump and shortages, AMD will just follow the pricing curve and we will still get no GPU’s.

    AMD is also 100% reliant on TSMC and VRAM suppliers, the same exact supply pressures causing Nvidia to turn off the consumer tap will come for AMD too.

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      1 day ago

      If this is about supply pressures, it’s not Nvidia acting as a cartel, is it?

      AMD has, as far as I understand, been outcompeting Nvidia on value for a good while. If this is Nvidia just being anti-consumer, I’d expect that to continue

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        19 hours ago

        AMD has, as far as I understand, been outcompeting Nvidia on value for a good while.

        And yet their market share doesn’t increase. Because Nvidia holds a stranglehold on both the software (CUDA, RTX support, frame gen, etc) AND sheer brand recognition- gamers always complain about Nvidia and want better AMD cards, but continue to line up in droves to buy Nvidia cards no matter what.

        Nvidia knows they can do whatever the fuck they want right now.