I've only been watching HWU since the summer and I got that vibe myself, I wasn't sure if I was reading too much into it.
No, your not reading too much in to it at all

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I've only been watching HWU since the summer and I got that vibe myself, I wasn't sure if I was reading too much into it.
What is the background of his displeasure?No, your not reading too much in to it at all![]()
Sorry I should have said it like that, obviously MSRP means nothing even too AMD if retailers are also going to take part in scalping (like 9800X3D)The problem is, if it's legit £50 cheaper than the 5070ti msrp, that actually means it's £150-200+ cheaper in reality. This is the problem, msrp means damn all especially with nvidia.
Also if nvidia doesn't have decent stock the 5070ti could reach over £1k on the scalpers market which would make AMDs £50 less price look much better as well.
£699 is too much but it could end up being the best card available on the market due lack of stock of anything else and people will buy it. I'm hoping it will be £649 at the very most
You're correct about thr 9800x3d but I don't think theirs a scalpers market for amd gpus and generally radeons come out at msrp and then 3 months later they do reductionsSorry I should have said it like that, obviously MSRP means nothing even too AMD if retailers are also going to take part in scalping (like 9800X3D)
That's preloading a bad review, he knows there is no way its going to be $300 less than its Nvidia competitor (in some instances half the price) he's setting unrealistic expectations because he doesn't want give it any positivity.
This petty bickering of his with AMD needs to stop.
AMD needs it to be priced at a level which is too good to refuse.
What is the background of his displeasure?
I do agree with his stance on RT though
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AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT & RX 9070 GPU Performance Leaks Out: Comparable To RX 7900 GRE & RX 7800 XT
The first performance benchmarks of AMD's RDNA 4-based Radeon RX 9070 XT & 9070 GPUs have leaked out at Geekbench.wccftech.com
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FFS
AMD are useless!
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AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT & RX 9070 GPU Performance Leaks Out: Comparable To RX 7900 GRE & RX 7800 XT
The first performance benchmarks of AMD's RDNA 4-based Radeon RX 9070 XT & 9070 GPUs have leaked out at Geekbench.wccftech.com
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Hype train derailed:
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AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT & RX 9070 GPU Performance Leaks Out: Comparable To RX 7900 GRE & RX 7800 XT
The first performance benchmarks of AMD's RDNA 4-based Radeon RX 9070 XT & 9070 GPUs have leaked out at Geekbench.wccftech.com
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Improvement in price though... these are definitely going to be £299 / £399 right?That's interesting, that would be a regression in performance vs RDNA 3.
£750 apparently![]()
The WCCF benchmark, compute units 28? It has 64, I'm sure one of the new Strix APU's has 28 CU's.
If true 9070xt shouldn't be priced above 450
Was that ever in question? Both those GPUs are high end and AMD said ages ago they wouldn't be competing at that level.
Hmmmmm with the new information just come out I cannot see the 9070xt being faster than 7900xt in raster closer to 7900gre.