There are rumor about new intel SKUs coming out; they may be slightly more powerful than the two Battlemage GPUs that we know of.
Hurry up and say what the plan is then!
- A bargain!
At that heavy discount I’ll buy two. SLI is surely still a thing yeah?
You mean crossfire?
Of course! What was I thinking.
Your idea would simply make it more of a bargain!
I’m not entirely sure what to make of it. I am still rocking my Vega 56 and realized some time last year that it was time to retire it. I don’t wanna buy nVidia, so I was pretty close to pulling the trigger on the 7900 GRE. Decided to wait a bit longer because I figured that the 7000 series was more or less a 4 year old design and that it would be better to see if there was some decent progress with the 9000 series cards.
The way I’m currently looking at it is that AMD was going to offer upper midrange chips as their fastest models and ride the coattails of nVidia who, after Covid and more crypto mining demand, established insane price levels. I remember reading reviews of the Titan cards and thinking “4-figures for a GPU? That’s crazy!”. That is not expensive nowadays and I don’t like it. When I got my Vega and money was tighter than it is now, it felt like a big splurge to me. To be fair, the card is still doing fine (has been watercooled since 2018) and has been worth its money but still. I could afford a RTX 5080 or even the 5090, but I have other hobbies as well and I am just not willing to spend more than 500-600 Euros on a new graphics card.
The fact that retailers are already sitting on RX 9070s while AMD pretends to be working on software for what was always going to be an affordable new generation smells fishy. I’m sure they can improve drivers and features a bit more, but it’s pretty obvious they were targeting an MSRP at the higher end of triple digits and now realize that that is not going to happen.
If I can’t find an AMD card that’s within my budget, I may just put Kingdom Come: Deliverance II on my pile of shame and see what Intel comes up with some time this year. I’ll enjoy a new bicycle in the meantime.
The 7000 series cards sold like ass but they are honestly very good, still. Track one down used, or buy one new that’s come down in price/on sale, and I think you’ll be very happy with it.
6000 had some kinks, apparently, which 7000 sorted out. It might not be the case but 9000 on a new architecture might again be a case of “good, but with some problems”.
7000 is where AMD sorted RDNA3 out and just made some solid cards that still have me planning to eventually get a used XTX (currently on 7800) and then just roll that until it can’t compete anymore.
I was actually considering stretching my budget to get one of the remaining 7900 XTs. Should have enough raw (rasterizing) oomph and 20 GB memory to last a while. I don’t really wanna buy a card that was released in 2022, but it would be a huge upgrade for sure.
Old cards used to crash in price because each gen would significantly increase performance or reduce price, sometimes both.
That is no longer the case. GPUs have consistently increased in price to match the increased performance of new gens, which has made striving for the latest and greatest a bad value proposition.
Whats the point of buying a new card when the fps per dollar is about the same? The same amount of money no longer gets you more fps, you have to fork out MORE each time to get something that’s significantly better, because if you go with the same budget, you only get justabout the same.
Unless you care about raytracing and fake frames (which I don’t), newer cards only have slight power efficiency gains to offer.
Sure, but at least the same money (adjusted for basic inflation maybe) should give you the same FPS, just in more current games.
If I just order myself a Hellhound 7900 XT, I can at least ignore the joke of a product launch that AMD currently pulling. Plus, I might be able to get a water block for that card. Who knows if and when those are available for the new gen. Thanks for your input.
AMD testing the waters?
They were really hoping for NVIDIA to come through on this one.
They may have done in performance terms - marginal performance increase in most workloads and relying on dlss4 for any impressive fps gains. If AMD can give a decent performance boost over the 7000 series they stand a chance in the mid to low end.
they stand a chance in the mid to low end
Theoretically yes, but everything they’ve shown so far (nothing) leads me to believe they will manage to fuck things up again.
