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PC Gamers, would you rather....

Would you rather....

  • Cloud game with GeForce Now and deal with <100hrs of weekly playtime?

    Votes: 4 3.1%

  • Buy a Chinese GPU for <$200 and deal with the potential of spyware.

    Votes: 14 10.7%

  • Buy AMD/Radeon and take the performance hit on RT, upscaling, rendering, etc

    Votes: 113 86.3%
  • Total voters
    131
64gigabyteram

64gigabyteram

Reverse groomer.
Here's a silly proposition for PC gamers in the midst of all this ram/GPU Bullshit. If you were just getting into PC gaming in this unholy year of 2026, would you rather:

Cloud game on Nvidia's Geforce now?
Buy a cheap Chinese GPU?
or, get a Radeon GPU?

would be really funny to see the results.
 
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Should've added an option like "stay with my current rig"

Having a capable 2 year old PC and laptop, I think I'll be fine going through the craziness.
 
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Cracking Up Lol GIF by HULU
 
Or stick with what you have and let game developers extract more bang for that buck.

If we're still able to extract more performance out of old console dating back to the 80's, then we've got a hell of a long run to extract more magic from current hardware.
 
I'm happy with my 9070 XT, so that was a very easy answer.

Although if we're thinking about it, if there was a Chinese GPU and it ended up with open source drivers on Linux would there even be any danger?
 
Neither. On the hypothetical case you describe I'd play some games on my retro-consoles until things went back to normal.

Thankfully, in real life, I have a nice PC that should carry me through those times.
 
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Easiest choice of my life, AMD and it's not even close.

The upscaling of FSR4 is close enough to DLSS that it doesn't matter, and RT performance will inevitably get close enough over time. I think their frame-gen is a bit weaker too, but I don't really use DLSS frame-gen in many games unless I'm already getting 80+ fps (latency hit not worth it otherwise), or it's a turn-based game.

Most importantly, the 9070XT has better raster performance (the thing every game uses) than any equivalent priced Nvidia card...so if I was building a PC this year with Nvidia still on the table, I'd pick the 9070XT anyway. I only have Nvidia because I used my tax return to get a RTX 4080 earlier, and the 9070XT didn't exist yet.
 
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What an odd poll and post tbh, the chinese GPU has the only downside of "potential spyware". The Radeon card has "performance hit on RT, upscaling, rendering, etc". Sounds like "huh, if you're desperate enough and you can't even get a chinese GPU, maybe a Radeon?". I'm one of those that jumped ship from a Nvidia 3070 to a RX 9070 (not even XT) and I don't regret it at all. Great purchase for 1440p gaming and my needs.
 
Kazdane said:
What an odd poll and post tbh, the chinese GPU has the only downside of "potential spyware". The Radeon card has "performance hit on RT, upscaling, rendering, etc". Sounds like "huh, if you're desperate enough and you can't even get a chinese GPU, maybe a Radeon?". I'm one of those that jumped ship from a Nvidia 3070 to a RX 9070 (not even XT) and I don't regret it at all. Great purchase for 1440p gaming and my needs.
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the AMD pick waas tacked on last minute because I thought it'd still be a hard choice considering the general grip Nvidia has on PC gaming. I use a Radeon so it isn't out of any hate or ignorance just thought it'd be funny.

Maybe if i had removed that poll choice the results would've been more interesting
 
What's that GPU bullshit you are talking about? there are good deals at least in Europe from the 5060TI 16gb to 5070Ti and from 9060XT 16gb to 9070XT, higher tier cards are not that great i agree tho.

And from these options obviously an AMD card, i think they are fine now, FSR4 is a good upscaler, their framegen is solid... take the RT hit and play at 144-240 FPS is a winning move
 
64gigabyteram said:
the AMD pick waas tacked on last minute because I thought it'd still be a hard choice considering the general grip Nvidia has on PC gaming. I use a Radeon so it isn't out of any hate or ignorance just thought it'd be funny.

Maybe if i had removed that poll choice the results would've been more interesting
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I think it's just the proposition isn't balanced because it's two different things. I mean, if I have to choose between a limited playtime cloud service or a local GPU, I'll take the local GPU every single time and I'd go through my backlog, which is massive.
 
Buy AMD/Nvidia and turn off both DLSS and Ray Traycing.

I'll take a lower, sharper resolution with higher framerates over smearing Vaseline all over my now 60 fps.
 
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I already made my choice when I got a 6900XT. Hoping not to have to choose again for another 5 or so years.
 
I'll be honest
IF some Chinese company goes all in on gaming GPUs.
And IF they have good compatibility and driver support (for all games, not just Chinese/Asia focused ones).
And IF they don't have any reliability issues.
And IF they offer comparable performance for a substantially lower price (I'm taking like 30% lower or more).
And IF they have some sort of DLSS/FSR comparable upscalling tech that gets widespread support.

Then sure, I don't care, give me the Chinese GPU. I don't care which foreign governments spies on me.

But those are a lot of "IFs" and I doubt all of them will be met anytime soon.
 
If Chinese companies can sell a GPU that cheap, then I'm sure there will be import restrictions in the USA to protect Nvidia.
 
Option 4: id pay whatever Nvidia asks and then just complain about Radeon doing a poor job keeping competitors prices down by having the same price/performance ratio while having none of the cool features thus not giving me a choice like a normal person.
 
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If the chinese managed to make a GPU that matches let's say the 5090 and sell it for 400 or 500$ I'll be honest, I'd probably buy one. Build a rig purely for gaming, isolate it on my network and I'd finally be able to migrate to Linux on my everyday PC.
I honestly only see pros here, I couldn't care less if the chinese or the americans or whomever spy on what I play, it's the other stuff I have issue with.

But as things currently stand if I really had to change I'd probably go AMD for now.
 
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If the chinese managed to make a GPU that matches let's say the 5090 and sell it for 400 or 500$ I'll be honest, I'd probably buy one. Build a rig purely for gaming, isolate it on my network and I'd finally be able to migrate to Linux on my everyday PC.
I honestly only see pros here, I couldn't care less if the chinese or the americans or whomever spy on what I play, it's the other stuff I have issue with.

But as things currently stand if I really had to change I'd probably go AMD for now.
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With how flaky Nvidia drivers are on Linux, I'd reckon a Chinese gpu might have a lot of issues.
 
As long as I can do so, I'll always opt for self hosted hardware and not from China. AMD route 100%, but I'm still NVIDIA for now. 4090 gang until my GPU dies I guess.
 
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With how flaky Nvidia drivers are on Linux, I'd reckon a Chinese gpu might have a lot of issues.
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Perhaps I expressed myself wrong, I'd install Windows on the gaming machine for obvious reasons. Then I'd get myself another PC that I'd use for everything else not gaming related and that would be the one I would install Linux on. Perhaps I'd get myself an Intel GPU for it as well just to give AMD and Nvidia the finger.

All this assuming China managed to make a GPU that competes with the best Nvidia has to offer which seems impossibly far-fetched at the moment, obviously. But one can dream...
 
Chinese GPU wouldn't have spyware but being sub <$200 i assume that card is going to be lower spec than option 3 which is a new Radeon/AMD card. Which is why I choose number 3.
 
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