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AMD Says You Don't Need More VRAM
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You can confidently say that this is fine for most consumers today. There really isn't a great argument that this will serve most consumers well for the next 3 to 5 years.
It's ok if well informed consumers are fine with a compromise for their use case.
Misrepresenting the product category, and misleading less informed consumers to believe that it's not a second rate product in the current generation is deeply anti-consumer.
People have been saying that for years, my 8gb card is chugging along just fine. The race to vram that people were expecting just hasn't happened. There's little reason to move on from 1080p and the 75+ million ps5s aren't going anywhere anytime soon.
There's no NEED to move on from 1080p, but there are a lot of reasons.
I wouldn't even object to his position on 1080p if he said "the RX 5700 is fine for most users, don't waste your money and reduce e-waste".
He's telling consumers that they should expect to pay a premium price to be playing a slightly better than 2019 experience until 2028 or 2030. There are gullible people who won't understand that he's selling snake oil.
What exactly do you expect him to say? Get the same GPU, but with more vram, at no extra cost?
If you want more performance, you pay more, that's the way it's always worked, and he's correct in that 8gb is good enough for most people.
No, I expect him to gaslight naive consumers. Which is what he did. I just don't get why others are defending it.
In this case, at 1080p it's barely more performance for a lot more money. And if we're falling back on "good enough for most people" then an RX 5700 or 6600 is also "good enough for most people".
It's a free market, he can sell a low value product to suckers. That's his right. You're free to defend him and think it's not scummy. But it's scummy, and hopefully most people who know better are going to call it out.