• insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe
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    1 day ago

    I still see it being an issue of pricing and questionable value (over older/used/already-owned) of a bottlenecked part, particularly when it ends up with users who aren’t esports users (for a multitude of reasons). In other words: stagnation.

    It’s more obvious with AMD selling new 4GB cards still in the budget category rather than ultra-budget, as in they aren’t raising the floor. The jokes still work:

    Sheen (from the show Jimmy Neutron) as AMD holding a GPU in the air: "This is the 6500XT!" Teacher: "AMD, this is the 5th year in a row that you've launched the RX 480"

    EDIT: There were even polaris GPUs with 8GB