10 Years since AMD took the graphics crown? What AMD needs to do better going into 2024+?

They need to improve the machine learning features. Rasterization is great, but has limits to what devs can reasonable accomplish in a given power budget. I want to see them match nvidia in this area.

Seems like they could improve their drivers too. I grabbed a used 6800 xt recently because I didn't want to jump into nvidia's 4xxx cards late into the generation with the prices still as stupid as they are. Been pretty happy with it, aside from some system stability issues (used card, sample size of one, so who knows).

6800 XT is a great choice! Great bang for the buck in the mid-end.

I don't have faith in them retaking the crown like the 7970 last did. They can still make a competitive product and pricing though. I like it for what it is and I can undevolt them to mitigate power draw. Intel did alright for their first try, a random Chinese company tried to make a card that only performed to GTX 780 levels which goes to show you how hard it can be to make a GPU.

what they need to do is make good enough, and i do mean that, focus on removing 8gb vram from the stack 10gb+ at least with good memory bus width, at a good price, especially that 400 dollar price tag like the 6700xt is now, if you put like the 7700XT with 16gb at 400 dollars whooo nvidias bacon would be greased something fierce.

trying to fight nvidia for the 99%th percentile is no longer relevant, thats a pointless horse to chase, nvidia will simply do it and theres no catching them but those are also the only 4000 series that really have sold well, 4060's pop up because of prebuilts mainly or a lack of available 3060's still on the shelf where someone is geographically situated. but between there is a gulf that the consumer has avoided because none of it is appealing.

the 8800gt back in the day sold like crazy, so much so they basically released the same card twice (9800gt) and THAT sold like crazy too, amd needs that. it needs a product that sits in the center of the stack that everyone is willing to pony up too, "good enough" for most things, with the vram for 2k gaming and the preformance needed to play games without a fuss at like medium and high at 60fps. if you can hit that mark dead on at a reasonable price. you will sell and sell, and sell, and AIC's will roll in doubloons, we are in a time of pc gaming boom, AMD needs to capitalize now before the bust.

if you do that there is no.. 5090 nvidia can make that will counter that, yes, crypto bros are rich and ai bros too, but what they are is elite, they are few in number the bulk of the consumer has always been the mid and low end, and if you can make that segment profitable and successful, there really is no catching you