Soldato
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I get what you're saying, but weren't the 7900 XT and 7900 XTX the 6900 XT and 6950 XT replacements? And they only had 16GB VRAM, so it's possible for AMD to make a gen on gen replacement with more VRAM.Because it's the 7800xt replacement... The 7900xt was to compete with the 4080, and the 7900xtx was meant to compete with the 4090. AMD have stated multiple times they're not doing high end gpu's this time, so that rules out the 7900xt and 7900xtx replacement... In their launch event they even showed slide saying 85% of gamers purchased a card under $700, so that's their target audience this time round...they're trying to increase mkt share, and that's not by going high end. hopefully frees up production for more 9700xt's. Even though they've had time to build up inventory and are meant to be producing more compared to last gen, it may not be enough...Remember most buyer skip a generation before buying a new card, so they'll be coming from the 6000 series amd or 3000 series nvidia. This was also lockdown when demand went through the roof (not lack of supply..they actually increase supply at time, it was just demand was more than double)..that and the paper launch of nvidia means that not only are the catering for their own AMD upgraders, they may have to cater for a lot of nvidia buyers also, as they have nothing worthwile in this price bracket at the moment...now seeing as nvidia have 85% market share, even if 10% move to amd, that might double the demand...in which case you'll see amd run out of stock fairly quickly also. Gibbo saying he has a fair few thousand though, so not expecting a nvidia launch where it went from 'coming soon' to refresh and 'out of stock'Personally I think they'll see well..looking around at other platform threads, a fair few people waiting for the 9070xt now....all depends if they have msrp cards though..shove up at £800, and they'll sit on the shelf
I don't know if it will be the same, but my Sapphire 7900XT Pulse has dual HSMI ports but I can't use them both to output 4k @ 120Hz. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be able to but I've read that HDMI shares bandwidth (I guess that's why there's often only 1) so it wouldn't completely surprise me. If you're running lower res and/or refresh it might be OK though. It might be fine, just thought I'd raise the point.nitro+ too expensive for the list?
prob going for saphire or gigabyte as they seem to have dual hdmi, which is what I need..suprising the asus tuf doesn't as the nvidia version do, but being tuf, they'd prob be horrendously expensive (unlike the 3000 launch where they were only a little more expensive i seem to remember...asus seem to have pushed it upmarket in price)