Until someone shows me exactly how much of "markershare" is exactly not China, I will always look at that as a better explanation of how Nvidia has become so dominant. Remember the US Govt banned them from selling 4090s. Remember the TPU story that they shifted production to Eastern Markets? Remember by the time the ban was in place the 4090D had been created. Remember when the 4090 laptop launched and about 2 months later you could buy 4090M DGPUs on Ali Express? Remember that when Nvidia announced the 5090 they also announced the 5090D? Is China a Red Herring? Look up Steam users before and after the release of TW 3 Kingdoms.
Unfortunately the "marketshare narrative" is now supported by Steam Charts and they now have more credit than user reviews. It is also the community. I did an investigation and it did not take much to see that the tech media lean heavily into Nvidia. Let's use an example. Jays2Cents grew his channel on WaterCooling and used to recommend EK. What did we learn in that Company going nuclear? That he was owed by Ek allegedly $600,000. What do you have to do for someone to owe you $600,000 for what you say?
Do you know why Wizz uses DLSS as a reason? TPU were gifted Nvidia cards from PNY. Before that Wizz was one of the only reviewers that listed AMD software as a reason to buy AMD. After the PNY interaction that was replaced with DLSSand DLAA.
I was not interested in this card, until AMD said that it was 40% faster at native than a 7900GRE. Why that is significant is that the 7900 cards all have the same GPU core. If the numbers are true these will be a huge hit at the prices. I won't pull the trigger this time but when that 32GB monster is available I will be upgrading.
