What a terrible bunch of cards AMD is releasing. They are clearly behind Nvidia in features, popularity and arguably performance yet they think releasing dogshit expensive cards is gonna make them look favourable. All this because they know gamers have no choice.
This gives you an insight of what AMD would be like if they were dominant like Intel was. They would pretty much be the same as Intel.
Any company would have done that. This is what people don't seem to get, when they hope for AMD/Intel/Nvidia to "die"
AMD has raised prices many times over the years, and then cut prices when Intel/Nvidia came back, which they always do.
I remember paying 549 for my 7970 on release back in early 2012 for example. GTX 680 launched at the same price and AMD cut price.
This what AMD does (and should be doing). Keep prices high when they have something decent and lower prices, when Intel and Nvidia makes the comeback. AMD is the small player and probably always will be. They need to have a good value proposition or most people won't bother buying AMD.
Ryzen 5600X is almost twice the price of Ryzen 3600 and AMD did not bother doing a 5600 Non-X. Same thing. I bet AMD lowers CPU prices when Alder Lake comes out. Rumours say that i5-12400 beats 5600X, and that i5-12400 is probably going to be 150-200 dollars like i5-11400 (which disrupted Ryzen perf/value)
