As expected, and the good thing as well is that the AMD GPUs look to keep their architectural benefits across all resolutions, whereas NVIDIA’s Ampere GPUs see fewer performance gains as the resolution decreases, which is weird.
This means those people playing in 1440p and slightly higher resolutions will be able to get a decent chunk of performance back, and should put the RDNA 2 GPUs even further ahead of their direct NVIDIA competition in like for like game comparisons. It may even be enough to where games AMD lost in at 4K, they are now tied or winning in 1440p.
Good times, although it’s questionable if it last with the next generation which is why I’m debating back and forth on picking up a 6800 / 3070ti (depending on the application performance of RDNA) or getting something in the $300 to hold me over until RDNA 3 or NVIDIA’s Hopper comes out later next-year. I can get the 6800 or 3070ti and sell it for around $400 next year, and get the 7900XT / 4080ti next year as that will be another big leap in performance as both AMD and NVIDIA plan on moving to 5nm.
