Re: AMD weighs in on HD versus 4K

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, 28 May 2025 17:01:19 -0000 (UTC), ant@zimage.comANT (Ant)
wrote:

I have old stuff and usually don't upgrade until I need them. For an
example, I finally went to HD in the end of 2014 from my move. My
current computer setups are still 1080 HD, VGA, DVI, 3.5mm analog
speakers, etc. They still work. I'm old school.
>

Wait... 3.5mm speaker jacks are old-school now? What are the hip
digerati using then? And what's wrong with 3.5mm jacks anyway? Don't
tell me sending stuff to cheapo speakers over Bluetooh is supposed to
be better somehow now.

Don't people use those fancy HDMI, SDIF, wireless, etc. for audio these
days? :P

But, otherwise... you just prove the point. Gamers don't really see
the need anymore for super-high-end hardware. It doesn't help that a
surprising amount of people use laptops as their primary device, and a
surprising number of those STILL have < 1920x1080 resolutions on their
primary display.

   [Side note: According to the Steam Hardware Survey, 12.65% of
    users surveyed have Nvidia branded laptop GPUs (although not
    all laptops use GPUs that self identify as 'laptop' models).
    That's almost as many as all AMD GPUs combined.]

AMD knows their audience better than Nvidia. These mega-powerful cards
with 32GB are not what people need... or really want. Nvidia has
better marketing, though, and people gravitate towards Nvidia-equipped
computers because of that.

I still use old onboard and video cards (MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti
(N750TI-2GD5/OC; 2 GB of VRAM)) as my highest end GPU). :P
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