I'm not saying they aren't good. But if rumors are true, they won't have an answer to DLSS or raytracing performance of Nvidia. They will be cheaper for sure, but how long into the gen till you need more performance?
Interesting for you to say, with the history of a console warrior....
Many PC gamers(like humans in general) are blind morons whom lost their point .
Why? Because they have lost the point: joy of gaming.
Instead of just playing, they stress from the idiotic things like is fps 80 or 90, is fps 140 or 170, does game feel laggy once in an hour?
Fastest card isnt the best card(technically it is, but not in reality), unless they are super rich.
Like spending 700€ vs 1500€ to gain 5-20% performance is just plain stupid. Getting better desk/chair/audio etc would benefit them more. Or just save the money.
All PC parts are "slow" eventually, so it is much smarter to buy 400-500€ card now, and upgrade it after 3-4 years than buy one 1000€ card now, because it will be slower than 500€ card 4 years in the future. Nothing is Future proof so buying expensive parts isnt smartest move. Those last 20% of performance cost way too much.
IMO pc gaming went nuts around 2010, people are special snowflakes whom cry if fps is under 60.
If AMD can sell cards for half the price but 80% performance, they are much better investiment.
It is just sad that people stare those fps counters + pixels instead of just gaming.
Anyone whom says "30fps is unplayable" isnt gamer, they are benchmarkers.
Almost any modern cpu with +6 cores and any gpu above 1060 is good enough for gaming, so it is collective madness to think that cards like 3080 are really that good or needed.
Like yeah, you can buy ferrari for grocery shopping trips but it is horrible overkill
Good that amd continues their business, otherwise nvidia would ask 2000€ for entry level stuff