How Can I Roast Nvidia Fanboys?
Fanboyism is peasantry. Don't fight peasantry with peasantry. I agree 100% with @gcubed.
As many others have noted, a GTX 1080 for $200 is...well...complete BS. Maybe a 1060. And the guy with the 960...well...your 380 is better in most cases, and that's that.
For the purpose of helping you out with your issue, I have only listed pro-AMD arguments (there are obviously arguments to be made from both sides). It's perfectly fine to like either company, or even both. I think something a lot of people don't take into account is that WE ARE CONSUMERS. WE DON'T BENEFIT FROM ONE COMPANY GAINING DOMINANCE OVER THE OTHER. In fact, we should be encouraging AMD to gain some market share and become a serious threat to Nvidia again. It's a basic principle of business - products are better for the consumer when there is more competition.
Nvidia has only really been leading the market for the past few years. It's been pretty even for most of the time. Older AMD cards also tend to perform better in the long run than their Nvidia counterparts. Take my 290X, for example. Basically neck-in-neck with a 780 Ti (at the cost of heat/power draw ), although it was outpaced way back in 2013/2014. Remember that the 780 Ti was $100+ more expensive at launch. Also, basically all of AMD's cards from the past while have better performance with new APIs. They also have longer driver support, which can really help to extend the life of cards. In my opinion (although this is definitely one of those unpopular ones), AMD has much, much, better game bundles than Nvidia does. Total War: Warhammer, Star Wars: Battlefront, Battlefield 1, Hitman, DOOM, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, and Civilization VI. The traditional "Nvidia has better games" argument is invalid, IMO.
Lately, AMD's really been focusing on performance/cost, and increasing their market share by targeting the masses rather than aiming for the top-performance spot. People seriously don't give AMD enough credit. "AMD doesn't have a chance against Nvidia"? Yes, they do, and if you doubt that...well...I don't know what to say. I'm rather disappointed to see how misinformed even some people on this forum are. Remember that AMD still hasn't released their top line of products yet, and they haven't updated their CPUs in years. We need to think about what they could announce on the 13th before we make any assumptions.
People just haven't seen AMD truly dominate in a long time - that's the reason they think Nvidia is "the one and only top-tier maker". But when you step back and think about it, they've been making more progress than most people give credit for.
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