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Wait to buy the 7900XTX or buy the 6950XT?

01001101 said:
Probably, but if I buy the other components needed for the build on Black Friday, then with the savings I should hopefully be able to afford the £1200 if that's going to be the case.
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I dont think the cost is going to be the problem it will be the availability. These are going to go out of stock quickly. Then what usually happens is people hoover up whats left so you might end up with no 7xxx and cant buy a 6090 either as they have all gone.
Thing is no one knows for sure. To answer your original question I would wait and hope I get lucky. However you need a plan B these days.
 
uscool said:
Even on release day ? Or have I been lucky I know AIB will be priced higher but won't retailers have reference models at launch pretty sure gibbo mentioned it , It's usually after that when it can be difficult
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maybe i am just being too negative, lets hope there is plenty of stock and reference models anywhere near £1000
 
dave28 said:
maybe i am just being too negative, lets hope there is plenty of stock and reference models anywhere near £1000
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no you are not. AMD have got a lot to live up to after the 6xxx launch where none were available and AIB's were scarce.

AMD/AIB's have 1000's of stock given to etailers they will make a killing. Come in under £200 or more of a 4080 and they will sell like mad.
If they repeat Nvidia's recent 4xxx launch be lucky to get quantities in triple figures.
 
01001101 said:
AIB?
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3rd party. Not AMD manufactured.

You can pick up a 6900 for £650 just now if you're short of cash I'd go for that. You'll be luckly to pick up a 79xx reference card before xmas or even this year judging by past launches. They have a limited number to sell at launch and then they're gone and will be rarer than hen's teeth until near the EOL in 2 years when any existing stock will be sold off cheap. Until then, well good luck.
 
Blackjack Davy said:
3rd party. Not AMD manufactured.

You can pick up a 6900 for £650 just now if you're short of cash I'd go for that. You'll be luckly to pick up a 79xx reference card before xmas or even this year judging by past launches. They have a limited number to sell at launch and then they're gone and will be rarer than hen's teeth until near the EOL in 2 years when any existing stock will be sold off cheap. Until then, well good luck.
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There's always a chance. I'll give it a shot. I've waited this long to build a new PC. Hopefully I'll be lucky? If not, 6900 it is.
 
01001101 said:
I'm not sure if I should wait for the 7900XTX or buy the 6950XT and then sell it a few months after the 7900XTX is released?

What would you do?
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Neither I would buy the 6900XT they have on offer here, and then wait until next year to upgrade if you need too.

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AMD have been cutting 6000 gen cards pretty aggresively lately, waiting for the 7900 may not get you one if they sell out but they could trigger further price cuts to the 6000 series.
 
Joxeon said:
If it's priced £1200 then it won't be hard to get as we're finding out with the 4080.
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Depends on how much it beats the 4080.

The issue is the 4080 is that it's selling closer to the starting price of the 4090 so it makes the 4080 pointless, why buy a 4080 AIB when you can spend £100 more for a 4090 ref which will perform insanely faster.

That price of £1200 was what Gibbo was hinting the AIB cards would be at, and with AIBs going the 3x8pin route they could perform a lot faster than ref making it more woth it.

(I should add i still think GPUs are more expensive than they should be.)
 
kieran_read said:
Depends on how much it beats the 4080.

The issue is the 4080 is that it's selling closer to the starting price of the 4090 so it makes the 4080 pointless, why buy a 4080 AIB when you can spend £100 more for a 4090 ref which will perform insanely faster.

That price of £1200 was what Gibbo was hinting the AIB cards would be at, and with AIBs going the 3x8pin route they could perform a lot faster than ref making it more woth it.

(I should add i still think GPUs are more expensive than they should be.)
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I personally would pass at £1200 unless it beats the 4090 in raster and RT.
 
Joxeon said:
I personally would pass at £1200 unless it beats the 4090 in raster and RT.
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If it beats a the 4090 in raster but not in RT that means you place a £600+ value on RT... all 250 of them out of 10's of thousands of games, of which you probably will be interested in less than a quarter of those ray traced games.

Ray tracing seems to just be the next excuse Nvidia fans want to use to avoid AMD.

Ray-tracing is not worth £600+ if a £1200 can beat or come close to a £1600 card in pure rasterisation than that is a significant win for team red.
 
kieran_read said:
If it beats a the 4090 in raster but not in RT that means you place a £600+ value on RT... all 250 of them out of 10's of thousands of games, of which you probably will be interested in less than a quarter of those ray traced games.

Ray tracing seems to just be the next excuse Nvidia fans want to use to avoid AMD.

Ray-tracing is not worth £600+ if a £1200 can beat or come close to a £1600 card in pure rasterisation than that is a significant win for team red.
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No it means I value the 4090 at £1200.
 
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