That’s a pretty big “unless”. I love how a lot of people just downplay that Radeon are absolute cheeks in anything apart from gaming. If you do, for example, any amount of work in Blender you basically have no actual choice. NV is the only game in town. The fact that AMD still hasn’t even tried to compete with OptiX is pathetic, to be blunt. How they think that they can just keep their back turned while the competition reaps the rewards is baffling to me.
Just out of curiosity....do you just assume that Radeon and Nvidia are competing on the same playing field? You understand that Radeon operates on a much, much, much smaller R&D budget than Nvidia does, right? That Nvidia has way more resources in basically every sense of the word, more money, more employees, better employees (because they can pay them more), and all those resources can be used as leverage to get better deals from suppliers, to pressure videogame developers to use their technology, etc.
Why do so many people just ASSUME that these two companies are competing on the same field with the same resources and the ONLY thing radeon has to do is make the correct choices? I'm just getting really tired of the following: Armchair quarterbacks saying something like the following: "Radeon should just lower their prices by $150 across the board" as if it's that simple.
Almost every single one of these "suggestions" operates on the incorrect assumption thar Radeon has all the resources and "options" that Nvidia does and that Radeon's lack of success is solely due to making the wrong choices. For example, we are all aware that a publicly traded company has to maximize profit for shareholders or could risk being sued by those shareholders, right? So then just releasing a new line of videocards with an MSRP $150 below Nvidoa's competing option and that leaves a huge amount of profit margin on the table, probably wouldn't go over too well with shareholders, right? And we know shareholders and stock prices are basically the primary focus of publicly traded companies these days, right?
I'm not trying to defend AMD, not trying to tell anyone that can't offer their criticism, but what I am doing is suggesting that criticisms be actually anchored in and acknowledge reality and the limitations presented by reality. For example, Radeon group is probably NEVER going to "overtake" Nvidia in the marketplace while Radeon probably has an R&D budget less than half of Nvidia's (I haven't been able to find how AMD divides its overall R&D budget among its different division, but based on the fact that x86 has a larger T.A.M. and represents a much larger revenue stream, I think it's safe to assume x86 receives the majority of R&D funds). And they're never going to be able develop something to counter Cuda while spending significantly less than Nvidia does on Cuda.
. People are spending a lot of money into camera gear, painting supplies even though they don't make money from it. There are a bunch of blender tutorials that got several millions of views. One should also not underestimate the amount of people who buy something "just in case". Someone just needs to think: "I might be interested to learn Blender for fun" to choose an Nvidia GPU just in case. Even if they never actually do it.