After nearly 15 years, I'm finally done with Nvidia. It's time to give AMD another try.
Contents With the launch of the RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT, this Nvidia fan was finally convinced to pick up an AMD graphics card as my next upgrade. I can’t believe I’m saying it, but for the first time ever, I couldn’t be more excited to be going Team Red.
Of course, as time went by, AMD improved. With the launch of Ryzen CPUs and RDNA 2 GPUs, I was ready to acknowledge that AMD is solid again, but still not quite ready to cut the cord and say farewell to Nvidia. But my resolve was slowly melting. There I was, with AMD’s graphics cards within reach; perhaps not quite as good as Nvidia in ways like ray tracing, but still more than sufficient. Still, knowing that both manufacturers would be releasing new lineups this year, I made the common mistake of waiting to find out what we were getting instead of building my PC right away.
A steady decline The last few weeks have been rough for Nvidia, even despite the initial success of its new Ada Lovelace generation of GPUs. First, the EVGA controversy — no matter how you spin it, it’s just not a good look. Then, the controversy surrounding the RTX 40-series GPUs started, and I was quickly running out of ways to defend my own choices.
Watching AMD’s announcement, I knew that I was on board. It’s sad that we’re at a time when a $1,000 GPU is a thrilling prospect, but it is — especially if we’re talking about a flagship that will likely become one of the best graphics cards of this generation. All of that is nice, but the best part is that AMD, unlike Nvidia, didn’t raise its prices. The flagship will cost $999 for the reference model, followed by $899 for the 7900 XT.
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