gourimoko
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@gourimoko So if I'm reading your post correctly, AMD's new hardware is definitely better than Intel's, so should take a chunk of market share, and Vega will take some VR market share from Nvidia? Or is Vega not for VR? I'm not totally up to speed, other than knowing Nvidia dominates that space currently.
P.S. to everyone, didn't mean to hijack this thread, but hopefully this is decent insight for everyone...
AMD's desktop processor technology is "better" quantitatively, cost/performance; yes. I would argue that for the vast majority of users, a Ryzen CPU is a better purchase than an Intel offering. I wouldn't have said that a few months back; and the last time I've ever said that for AMD was ... a very long time ago. AMD was relegated to budget PC offerings, and was terrible in workstation configurations. That's totally not the case anymore.
Vega remains to be seen, but from leaked benchmarks; it looks like the real deal. Once the mainline Vega cards come out, I fully expect Nvidia to have some very very real competition...
Also a lot of folks will also buy AMD graphics cards simply because they've bought AMD CPUs. So one benefits the other.