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who would buy a chinese GPU that will play years of chatch up with drivers?
who cares about the spyware if it will probably not even play most games correctly? look at the issues Intel had, and intel isn't even new to the GPU market either, they had iGPUs for more than a decade.

also, AMD is finally starting to be competitive

 

[Knightime_X]

I have an RX 9070 XT, and I am hard as a rock.
I am loving it

 

[Gp1]

I went with AMD after 15 years of NVidia.
9070xt vs 5070 TI scenario. In raster AMD trade blows and win in some scenarios, FSR4 is good enough (optiscaller...), Rt performance is a little hit and miss but in the worst case scenario you have 70% of a 5070 TI.
All of that while paying 70-75% of the price a 5070ti.

9070 vs 5070 scenario is even more favorable to AMD because of the 12 vs 16 gb ram scenario.

Its a no brainer. Nvidia's value proposition, especially in the mid-range segment, simply died for the last 2 generations. (12 gb 5070, 8 gb 5060ti is a fricking joke)

The difference is that AMD got it right with RDNA 4.

 

[DavidGzz]

China doesn't care about me. Number 2, eacy ese

 

[baphomet]

I'd quit playing games before I pay to stream them.

 

[MayauMiao]

Amd route. RT is over hype

 

[poppabk]

who would buy a chinese GPU that will play years of chatch up with drivers?
who cares about the spyware if it will probably not even play most games correctly? look at the issues Intel had, and intel isn't even new to the GPU market either, they had iGPUs for more than a decade.

also, AMD is finally starting to be competitive

They caught up with game development pretty fast. I don't think catching up with Nvidia would be the biggest hurdle but catching up to TSMC.

 

[Mortisfacio]

Amd route. RT is over hype

RT is, but pathtracing... CyberPunk 2077 with pathtracing is just next level. The problem is there's select games it's noticably better.

 

[Xaeroxcore666]

Or buy an older generation Nvidia card? I bought a second hand 4060 TI 16 GB, as good as new, and i´m really happy with it (tried to get through Amazon twice an RX 9060 XT 16 GB but both orders were cancelled, so came with the used Nvidia plan B and worked).

 

[MrAlwaysRight]

I've got a 4090 with 24gb of VRAM i'm good for the next decade

 

[manlisten]

This may be a naive question but is there any chance that Intel steps up as a relevant alternative in the near future? Feels like they're never mentioned.

 

[V2Tommy]

Where's the option for us rich folk that don't care how much things cost?

 

[Aenima]

Why does a chinese GPU had to have spyware? Why does the AMD card had to take performace hits? Why isent there an option to buy a Nvidia card at whatever price?

In all the whatabout scenarios i would pick the AMD GPU, as they recent GPUs are pretty good and they RT game is improving.
If the chinese 200$ cheaper GPU had better performance than the others on the market, even with spyware that would be an easy pick. Spyware can be removed, but you cant add more performance to your GPU.

Anyway you wount see me paying a sub. to play games from the cloud.

 

[Madflavor]

Freedom and Privacy, always.

 

[Gameplay Gods Bless]

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.

AMD was the first one to increase prices. Id rather game on Intel but AMD is a decent alternative to Nvidia right now

 

[drotahorror]

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...

I just installed Linux to dual boot with windows. Only using it to play Mortal Kombat 11 with a friend. In that game you will disconnect if you fight if the other person has Windows 10 and you have 11. It's ridiculous.

 

[kiphalfton]

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.

I don't understand what you mean by that.

You either get Nvidia, AMD, or Intel.

 

[existensmaximum]

Is this even a serious question?

 

[Shubh_C63]

Yeah when things are 1000$+, I would rather sell my personal data to get stuff I need for 200$.
But I doubt my country will ever allow Chinese gpu with spyware fly, so realistically speaking it's AMD's game to lose now.

 

[dcx4610]

Radeon. They are perfectly fine GPUs. They might not be top of the line, but they'll get the job done. Zero interest in streaming my games. I'd rather not even game at that point. I'll just play old consoles at that point. There are 1000s upon 1000s of games I've never played in my life that I could play.

 

[MayauMiao]

RT is, but pathtracing... CyberPunk 2077 with pathtracing is just next level. The problem is there's select games it's noticably better.

I watch quite a number of ray tracing and path tracing for games. Its a nice feature but honestly if I have to spend $1000 GPU just to have that, I rather just play with a cheaper GPU without such feature.

The cost isn't worth it for me.

 

[I wasn't selling any]

Cheap Chinese GPU all the way. My gaming PC was always a dedicated gaming machine with almost no personal data on it and even in a separate VLAN with all the other IoT Chinese crap. Because even by using mods or trainers, you never really know what's lurking there.

 

[Sand Dan Glokta]

Lol Chinese GPU "Spyware"

lmao

Go look in the proverbial mirror, Mr. My Government Definitely Doesn't Spy On Me.

 

[roosnam1980]

already swapped to an AMD gpu
chinese gpus might be a good second option in the future
fuck nvidia

 

[winjer]

RDNA4 have good performance both in raster and RT. And FSR4 looks great.
No point in going with some crappy Chinese GPUs or with cloud gaming.

 

[Shockwave_Fox]

First pc and have an AMD GPU - has been perfect for what I want it to do and have no interest in ray or path tracing at all.

I would just stop gaming altogether rather than stream from the cloud - tried it and it's wank.

 

[I wasn't selling any]

Lol Chinese GPU "Spyware"

lmao

Go look in the proverbial mirror, Mr. My Government Definitely Doesn't Spy On Me.

US spyware is more threatening than Chinese spyware. I don't intend to travel to China anymore, so it's not like my data in their databases has any influence on my life. But I can almost guarantee that the US has some kind of publicly unknown agreements with my dictator country to share the data about it's citizens. So I have to fear that spyware way more.

 

[Exede]

GPU with Spyware?

God i love weekend GAF

 

[I wasn't selling any]

GPU with Spyware?

God i love weekend GAF

What's your point here? That a GPU can't have spyware, or that it would economically make no sense to sell a powerful GPU for a subsidized price just to get some data from a peasant?

 

[DenchDeckard]

I have an RX 9070 XT, and I am hard as a rock.
I am loving it

Its an incredible GPU. Blown my mind.

 

[Fortress of Regrets]

Why is everyone obsessed with Chinese spyware? We're all using shitty spyware from fascist America all day long.

 

[Exede]

What's your point here? That a GPU can't have spyware, or that it would economically make no sense to sell a powerful GPU for a subsidized price just to get some data from a peasant?

It's just to funny to me, everybody is using phones with chips from China. Not just Xiaomi, Redmi and what not, i mean Samsung and Apple.
I have absolutely no concern about a spying GPU... zero!

I would buy a Chinese GPU when it equals Nvidia ones. No question