Saying "it's just saying how it is" isn't a valid argument.
I could say you're an idiot for thinking that, but I'd be wrong because you're not an idiot. Do you see what I mean? Hyperbole is hyperbole. To claim that someone is a plum for buying an AMD card right now is extreme. That is the very definition of extreme because there are valid reasons for buying an AMD card, just as if I called you an idiot for not understanding that. Again, you're not an idiot; we all really enjoy talking to you. I'm just reaffirming a point: hyperbole is a thing, and not everyone understands that.
I don't see how being pessimistic and or cynical is hyperbole. It's truth. A brutal truth perhaps? but still truth. The best value card in the world for £ per FPS? 3070. That's just fact. Check out the HWUB value thingermerjig they do.
As for being a plum for buying AMD? you would be. Not because I am brand biased. I don't give a crap. It all comes down to that one brutal thing - £ per FPS. Then once you have gone past that you can start looking into other things. Like DLSS, RT, tensor cores, drivers. Then you can move onto the rest, hardware based Gsync and so on. You know? be less fussy. And at no point during all of that is there a reason to pick AMD. Just using your brains and valuing your money.
At launch most of the reviewers refused to even count DLSS or RT. Why? because Nvidia were leaning on them to do so. So they wanted to rebel, that's fine I get that. I wouldn't do exactly what someone asked
me to do either.
However, as you will know as we've been post buddies for a while? I am a big proponent of DLSS and have been pretty much since day two. What I mean is? the first round was gash. The second however? a pinnacle moment in gaming. That is completely ignoring RT which I do not like, because of the facts. IE you will recall me saying from my own first hand experience it looked "gritty" and "bitty" etc. Well apparently after lots of research that is just how it is, because of how it works etc. And again, I am not one of these people desensitised enough not to notice or care about it. So I prefer it off.
However, at the same time I would not turn down something that doubles my FPS figures for an apparently worse image that I
can't notice. So it's clearly good enough, even for a really fussy bugger like me.
As such I would not recommend any one line AMD's pockets because of what I have said. They put a thousandth of money into their development, which over the past few years has been absolutely embarrassing, and are asking the same or more as Nvidia. And apparently me pointing out all of those facts is hyperbole. Erm, sure dude.
I've used AMD/ATi many times in the past. Many, many times. All the way up to the Fury X where I bought two and got completely burned. In fact, I even bought a 6970 because I got burned by Nvidia.
What person in their right mind goes 470 1.2gb to 6970 2gb? me. The reason? the 470 did not have enough VRAM. I tried bloody everything to get one level of BF3 to play ball. It was a level based in a small outside mall. You caught a terrorist, and you had to keep him alive for intel. At which point waves of terrorists would rush into said mall, and all you could use was a sniper rifle. Now I tried this and failed about 40 times. I really thought it was me. Then after hours and hours of digging? turns out it wasn't. The GPU I had did not have enough VRAM for 1080p and when it ran out (like it did on that level) it would start using my paging file. Tanking the FPS and 1% mins, meaning when I ADS? they were already up the elevator and I lost.
And buying that 6970 totally fixed it. I literally did it first try. Moving forward into the future with the Fury X? that is the second case of "Not enough VRAM" I have had, which is why I am a huge opponent of cards without enough. Again, no hyperbole to be had just experience and facts.
The 6500XT is very poorly positioned, that's for sure. It's clear AMD are trying to milk the market as much as possible. But that doesn't change my point: there are reasons why a particular person would buy a particular AMD GPU and be happy with their purchase, and it's not because they're a plum. Is it the 6800XT over a 3080 from OCUK? No. We've established that. Is it a 6500XT over an Nvidia equivalent? No. We've established that too. But they are not the only comparisons or buyer sectors that exist.
The only position for the 6500XT is the bin. I apologise if research, facts and common sense go into my purchase decisions and my advice for others making the same said purchases. I won't change that until AMD change something. And releasing arse GPUs that belong in said receptacle and over charging for inferior GPUs won't change my mind.
That 6970 btw? £200. The same I had paid for the 470 with the cooler on (£170 clearout on the 470 two months after launch and £25 plus postage for the cooler).
Had it not packed up I am sure I would have had it ages.