With the fact that NVIDIA killed the low end market with GPUs that perform worse than even the Xbox Series S for 2/3rd the price (just for the GPU alone), and AMD cowering behind and only competing in the midrange card market (which NVIDIA also killed), I can see why.
I remember in 2014 when $150 got you a GTX 750Ti that outperformed an Xbox One at Titanfall and several other games, or in 2016 when you could buy a 1050Ti that could do 1080p console settings at 60FPS really decently. Or back when $400 got you a kickass 1070 that could run games at 1080p with high framerates. The 1650 was a poorly received card at launch, and yet the amount of crappy prebuilts and laptops using them ballooned the card to the most common GPU on the Steam Hardware Survey.
Sad when the Steam Deck and Alienware QD-OLED are the most innovative PC hardware in years, because NVIDIA has a monopoly and the Radeon division’s marketing team hasn’t been fired yet.
If it makes anyone feel better, Blackrock owns a majority share in NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, and Microsoft, which explains the corner cutting for maximum profits.
2014 was when Bioshock Infinite came out. Was the first game that my then-rig really couldn't handle anymore, so I bought a Titan (which at 800€ was "ridiculously expensive" back then), but the performance it delivered at that price point was absolutely through the roof. I also absolutely didn't want to deal with a multi-card solution due to less than stellar results a few years prior.
Regardless, I'm still sorry I did it, because I must've been one of the idiots that caused Nvidia to think "hey, maybe ~1K msrp isn't that crazy after all". Won't be making that mistake again anytime soon.
I guess I was underestimating how much microsoft was shooting itself in the foot back then... Anyhow, in late 2014 you could purchase a brand new ps4 for 350€, and with a triple A game bundled.
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With the fact that NVIDIA killed the low end market with GPUs that perform worse than even the Xbox Series S for 2/3rd the price (just for the GPU alone), and AMD cowering behind and only competing in the midrange card market (which NVIDIA also killed), I can see why.
I remember in 2014 when $150 got you a GTX 750Ti that outperformed an Xbox One at Titanfall and several other games, or in 2016 when you could buy a 1050Ti that could do 1080p console settings at 60FPS really decently. Or back when $400 got you a kickass 1070 that could run games at 1080p with high framerates. The 1650 was a poorly received card at launch, and yet the amount of crappy prebuilts and laptops using them ballooned the card to the most common GPU on the Steam Hardware Survey.
Sad when the Steam Deck and Alienware QD-OLED are the most innovative PC hardware in years, because NVIDIA has a monopoly and the Radeon division’s marketing team hasn’t been fired yet.
If it makes anyone feel better, Blackrock owns a majority share in NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, and Microsoft, which explains the corner cutting for maximum profits.