Seeing a lot of positivity around the AMD cards, and FSR3 especially. High demand, some cool designs, tech social media persons being on board.
While it is really good, I feel like people are somewhat over-enthusiastic because we're all cheering for AMD and against Ngreedia.
The way I see it for AMD:
+ Less unattractive pricing, way better value proposition than the 5070
+ Great positioning in the market
+ Raster performance basically reaching one price tier higher
+ Good and reliable designs, no melting cables
+ Finally, passable to good RT performance in general and in most use cases
+ Finally, an awesome image reconstruction solution. FSR3 rocks
+ VRAM!!!!!!!
- some weirdness with the OC potential
- still lagging behind in RT, especially when it gets complex with multiple effects or path tracing, performance crumbles significantly
- no ray reconstruction, meaning the high-end showcase games like path traced Indiana Jones or Cyberpunk aren't possible. AMD is working on a solution but it doesn't look good yet from what they've shown. Will take more time.
- overall ecosystem is worse, Nvidia has better latency reduction with Reflex, better frame gen if wanted, strong features in the Nvidia App like the very good auto HDR
- FSR3 availability is very limited. Nvidia offers the new DLSS version for old cards as well and it's available for a large library of games. FSR3 is only available on the new cards and in a few games. AMD started to use a .dll for FSR pretty late in the game, in most games you can't inject the new FSR3, you're stuck with the ultra fugly FSR2. That's a significant gap in favor of Nvidia, majority of games is FSR2 vs the new DLSS model. Those are universes apart.
AMD caught up quite a bit in the most important features and deserves huge respect for that, they're on a great track. But once the enthusiasm settles a bit and you look at the pros and cons, it's not like going with AMD is a no brainer. They beat the super bad 5070 and there's barely an argument to buy the 5070 vs the AMD cards. Once the 5070ti prices normalize, the decision won't be as clear anymore. Pay a bit more but get closer to the high end and get all the Nvidia stuff. 9070XT is still a strong option, especially for that price, but it gets more competitive and it's not like everything is great with AMD.
(btw. It's week three of no 5090 cards in the MSI store. Alternate.de got a few ZOTAC cards and a bunch of 3.5k Gainward Phantom ones.)