My rig is full AMD (5800x/5700xt), but that's purely because they happened to be the better value at the time. The second they get a lead in the consumer GPU market (which they likely will since nvidia simply doesn't care about it vs the ML market now) prices are going to rise again.

And don't pretend that these prices are anything resembling affordable. That would be when you could get a legitimately mid-range card for ~$150 (rx580).

[–] Spudwart@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Corporations aren’t your friend.

Correct. But AMD is doing things that benefit FOSS and Linux, where as nVidia is a menace. Intel is also doing pretty decent, they just need to catch up in terms of driver features.

[–] Alto@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Honey their x80 equivalent cards are over double what they used to be. Stop praising them for doing the bare fucking minimum.

[–] BattleBeetle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man, I could use another $200 MSRP mid-range card. I'm also running RX5700XT (for $430!) and it's probably going to be the first card I will use until it dies, unless there's a reasonably priced mid-range coming out soon.

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I have that card too but i think it was closer to 500 when i bought it. I felt like i got a terrible price but it was better than what folks after me had to deal with. Itcs still a great card and i hope it outlasts this crazy price gouging.

[–] Hexarei@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Yep. I'm running a Ryzen CPU for the first time as of late last year because the 5950X was on sale and Intel had no competing options anywhere near the same price. It was 16c/32t AMD for like $220 or the same core and thread count for $560 from Intel.