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  • The 6900XT/6950XT were great.

    They briefly beat Nvidia until Nvidia came out with the 3090 Ti. Even then, it was so close you couldn’t tell them apart with the naked eye.

    Both the 6000 and 7000 series have had cards that compete with the 80-class cards, too.

    The reality is that people just buy Nvidia no matter what. Even the disastrous GTX 480 outsold ATI/AMD’s cards in most markets.

    The $500 R9 290X was faster than the $1000 Titan, with the R9 290 being just 5% slower and $400, and yet AMD lost a huge amount of money on it.

    AMD has literally made cards faster than Nvidia’s for half the price and lost money on them.

    It’s simply not viable for AMD to spend a fortune creating a top-tier GPU only to have it not sell well because Nvidia’s mindshare is arguably even better than Apple’s.

    Nvidia’s market share is over 80%. And it’s not because their cards are the rational choice at the price points most consumers are buying at. It really cannot be stressed enough how much of a marketing win Nvidia is.







  • Yes, they need heating in winter… for a tiny population. And they have very little in the way of data centres.

    Again, these are only suitable depending on the environment you’re in. E.g. pumped water storage is only effective if you have the terrain to allow for it (a large hill or mountain with space for a large body of water).

    I never said lithium was an outright requirement. I said batteries can’t currently take the planet off of fossil fuels, then I said that other energy storage systems are very dependent on the location.

    E.g. despite there being a lot of rainfall in the UK, there are only 3 places suitable for pumped water energy storage. It can’t be relied upon for powering a country unless you’re phenomenally fortunate with geography.