2070s - 2080 - 2080s - 2080ti is really half the market. Just going by steam statistics alone a large number is buying xx90s, let alone all xx80, xx80s, xx2070s etc. You don't think at the very least 20% of the market buys these cards?
20% i could believe. 50% - no.
As for the steam stats:
4090 is at 0.90% at #28th place.
3090 is at 0.48% at #49th place.
5090 does not even appear in the list.
Only 3070 appears on the TOP10. No other 70, 80 or 90 class card is in the TOP10.
2070, 2070S, 2080, 2080S and 2080 Ti combined are only 2,55%. This is less than any of the top 7 cards individually. Not exactly 50% of the market.
3070 variants, 3080 variants and 3090 combined fare better at 7,51% combined.
4070 variants, 4080 variants and 4090 combined are at 9,79% combined.
5070 variants and 5080 combined are only at 1,5% combined.
Combining all these percentages for the 20, 30, 40 and 50 series cards results at 21,35%
Like i said. 20% i could believe, but it's nowhere near 50% like you claim.
Now think about it logically, amd nowadays withdrew from the high end market to focus on the lower end, and yet for all these months while nvidia was busy selling 300 and 400$ gpus amd had NOTHING to offer there.
What cards you are talking about specifically?
I assume you mean 5060 Ti that launched in April vs 9060 XT that launched in June?
Also 5060 Ti 8 has MSRP of $379. Im pretty sure for most of it's time it was not even available below 400.
So you saying that Nvidia spent months selling 300 to 400 GPU's is false. There was initially very little stock and prices were 400+
By the time they got stock up and prices came down 9060 XT launch was already imminent.
A for the volume of cards sold - Nvidia would outsell AMD even of they launched on the same day. There's no denying that.
How is it possible that the company that doesn't care about gaming and focuses on AI to have their entire lineup out from top to bottom offering the cheapest current gen GPUs while the company that focuses on the low end market has 0? How are people surprised that they aren't selling?
But they dont. 5050 is supposedly coming and who knows what other model that Nvidia reserved for the inevitable super series refresh.
Also Nvidia is not offering the cheapest current gen GPU's. That title goes to Intel. Nvidia or even AMD has noting modern below 300 like Intel does, with 12GB no less. The cards they have - 5060 at 299 and 9060 XT at 315 are both 8GB at that price range and thus obsolete already.
And you also have to take into account all that antinvidia vitriol that holds no water. I'd pay a rather hefty 10% extra to get an identical nvidia card just because I don't want to associate with the cult.
Holds no water? Only a fanboy could write something like that by dismissing all legitimate complaints against Nvidia as "vitriol".
You say you dont want to associate with a cult. Yet you are already in another cult that ignores all legitimate complaints as "vitriol" and buys the same thing at higher price just because. If you had told me you bought it for legitimate reason like CUDA or better performance in pro editing/rendering programs i could at least understand it because those are the areas AMD is most lagging behind.
They are basically calling everyone else an idiot and they are the enlightened ones. No, thanks.
Is it any different to how Nvidia elitist's call AMD buyers "dumb" and "poor" all the time?