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[64gigabyteram]

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.

 

[Gaiff]

RT performance is fine on RDNA4.

 

[64gigabyteram]

RT performance is fine on RDNA4.

true but still not as good as it is on Nvidia. Whether that's a big deal or not is down to the person making their choice.

 

[LectureMaster]

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.

 

[Sticks]

 

[64gigabyteram]

Should've added an option like "stay with my current rig"

Having a capable 2 year old PC and I think I'll be fine going through the craziness.

should've prefaced it with a hypothetical like "if you were just getting into PC gaming in 2026, would you rather...?"

 

[Unfortunatecookie]

I'll take the AMD performance hit over spyware and lagware.

 

[falconhoof]

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.

 

[OverHeat]

Buying Nvidia anyway should be an option

 

[LectureMaster]

should've prefaced it with a hypothetical like "if you were just getting into PC gaming in 2026, would you rather...?"

Yeah, probably wait and see what exactly Steam Machine can do, if getting into PC gaming this year.

 

[64gigabyteram]

Buying Nvidia anyway should be an option

It IS an option. You can buy Geforce now!

 

[TrebleShot]

The worst news is that whatever information you think the Chinese want from you they most likely already have it.

Give me the Chinese knock off GPU

 

[Mister Wolf]

Buy AMD. The 9070XT is a solid gpu. Hopefully they can build off its momentum.

 

[HRK69]

would be really funny to see the results.

Yeah

I'm really laughing my ass off already

 

[Soodanim]

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?

 

[OverHeat]

It IS an option. You can buy Geforce now!

Would rather pay whatever they are going to charge then playing on cloud…

 

[64gigabyteram]

Would rather pay whatever they are going to charge then playing on cloud…

Hard agree! if Radeon closed down tomorrow i'd rather make a down payment on the 5090 than ever do any cloud gaming BS.

 

[yet_another_alt]

Oh no, China is going to find the info that I already gave to AliExpress.

 

[rm082e]

Already bought a 9070 XT after seeing the silly Nvidia pricing for 5000 series. So far, it's worked flawlessly.

 

[Gamezone]

Chinese cars selling like hot bread, why not PC hardware?

 

[TintoConCasera]

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.

 

[Durin]

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.

 

[xenosys]

AMD alternative and take the hit > Geforce Cloud > Chinese Spyware

 

[Kazdane]

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.

 

[64gigabyteram]

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.

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

 

[Denton]

Why are the most obvious options (to buy Geforce, new or second hand) missing?

Anyway, 3080Ti will be fine for the rest of this gen.

 

[CrustyBritches]

9070-series are solid performers. We should be so lucky.

 

[owandeseis]

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

 

[Kazdane]

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

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.

 

[ReBurn]

Deal with less than 100 hours of weekly play time? Who has 100 hours or more per week to play video games?

 

[Wildebeest]

Ni hou gaf.

 

[analog_future]

AMD's great for everything but the highest of high-end. If I wasn't a whore with my 5090 I'd have gone AMD already.

 

[Polaris]

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.

 

[R3TRO]

Those options all sound horrible.

 

[poppabk]

I already made my choice when I got a 6900XT. Hoping not to have to choose again for another 5 or so years.

 

[Fbh]

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.

 

[Shifty1897]

In your head the results were a lot more balanced, eh OP?

 

[Crayon]

Already prefer amd for the linux support so that's an easy one.

 

[diablos991]

If Chinese companies can sell a GPU that cheap, then I'm sure there will be import restrictions in the USA to protect Nvidia.