TIME FOR TEAM RED
Guy Cocker
WE PROMISE it’s nothing personal, but we’ve been maligning AMD and its GPUs for the past six issues. True, it’s mainly because Nvidia has been drip-feeding its Lovelace-powered 4000-series cards to market, starting with the flagship 4090 and then running down to last issue’s 4070Ti build. Nvidia is also the undisputed king when it comes to discrete GPUs, claiming 88 percent of the market in Q3 2022.
But we don’t need to tell you that there’s been a collective sigh when it comes to Nvidia’s pricing this generation, with the RTX 4080 ($1,199) being a particular disappointment in the price-to-performance department. With AMD’s RX 7900 XT being cheaper than the RTX 4080, but promising similar performance, is it time for people to ditch Team Green and head over to the relative value offered by Team Red?