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For their first ever card thats not terrible, look at how shit intel was when they first released the Arc GPUs.
Priced like a RTX 5060 Ti 16GB (485 USD), performance of a RTX 3060 (~330 USD).
Toms Hardware is such a weird rag now in how it baits on geopolitical yellow journalism Weird to see a formerly well regarded tech journalism site using politisphere-bro low brow terminology like paper tiger
I personally don't see the usage of the term paper tiger to be that big of a deal in context of a tech journalism site. Professionalism of reviews, knowledgeable journalists and editorial independence are the kinds of things that make or break a technology journalism site.
That being said I personally would have avoided such a term; there are other article types were it could be a better fit.
These days you can't be too picky if you prefer written articles (I am one of those people that doesn't find the video format to be workable for reviews of even opinion pieces, but I fully understand why video is so popular).
"hype trumps performance" sounds like American cope. People desperately want an alternative to Nvidia and AMD.
Me too, but not from China. The CCP and its goons make the US oligarchy look like a reasonable choice.
Although the US oligarchs and the segment of the US population that genuinely supports crime and corruption are doing their best to change this.
Strong disagree. China is a reliable if not self interested partner.
The US goes from selling you weapons to threatening to invade you randomly at the flip of narcissistic coin.
I mean... What's the price? If it has "lukewarm" performance but only has a "lukewarm" price, then its competitive.
Article says $485
Yeah they're like the first words in it too, oops haha. Thanks!
How many of them were bought not to actually play with them, but to analyze,them, discuss them in a blog, or similar?
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