It really feels like a coin flip with Asus. I cautioned a forum member here recently about it when he needed to RMA a 4090. Fortunately for him they gave him no problem and everything got done properly. I feel sorry for all these other folks who were on the other side of the coin. It's just...
I'm still confused how it's going to stop someone from enjoying the game? It's such a minor change. It's like making a male character less muscular in the sequel, is anyone going to complain about that?
The only thing for certain is the scalpers will be there right on the first release, whatever card it happens to be. And some morons will go on ebay and pay them.
He probably should get an apples to apples comparison by using the same game/bench before opening it up and doing a re-paste. I've done lots of cards myself but it's still a job I'd rather avoid if possible.
I certainly do not recall it being discounted that hugely a month or two after release. Perhaps others can chime in about it. Nearly 6 months after release the 4090 came out, which is one reason it was not a very good buy at the time.
I think we both know those are too high. Like I said they could monkey around with the prices and performance and make the math harder for people. I mean what do you think it would take for them to convince a bunch of people to buy an AMD card?
There's no doubt it's on them. I'm just thinking nvidia could make the math hard for them. $2500-3k for the x90 and then $1200 for the x80. Something like that. This is all complicated a bit now due to the 4090 being priced as it was and how it would compare to the 5090 of course.
Why do...
I think they can, they just leverage the pricing and RT performance. It's the one feature AMD can't compete on very well and lots of people care about it.