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Poll: What would you buy in the £400 - £700 ?

What are you buying for upto £700 budget?

  • RTX 5060 Ti 16G at £399

    Votes: 8 3.3%

  • RTX 5070 12G at £499

    Votes: 12 4.9%

  • RTX 5070 Ti 16G at £729

    Votes: 46 18.9%

  • RX 9070 XT 16G at £649-699

    Votes: 148 60.9%

  • RX ????? at £349-399

    Votes: 15 6.2%

  • 7900 XT at £599

    Votes: 7 2.9%

  • Intel B580 £249 - 299

    Votes: 2 0.8%

  • RTX 5060 8G at £299

    Votes: 1 0.4%

  • RX 9070 NONE XT at £549-599

    Votes: 4 1.6%
  • Total voters
    243
I'd buy a 9070xt put of them being the most reasonable but I'd rather wait as them prices are just not great at all. I'm sitting on a 6700xt and tbh I don't see the need.
 
humbug said:
Nothing on that list, why is the 9070 XT £650 to £700 when the MSRP for those cards start at $600? Currently at $1.33 to £1 that's £452 + 20% VAT = £543.
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Brexit blah blah blah, trump tariffs blah blah blah. All the usual excuses.

The reason the prices are like that is because people can't wait to buy them. They would preorder if the price was anywhere from between 550 and 800 quid just so they knew they would get a card.
 
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9070XT but not now and at those prices, was hoping to grab one on realease day but we all no how that went. My 5700XT can hold out for the time being and im not dissapointed in its performance, wish it was better obv but not complaining. Ill get one when/if they ever return to release day pricing if not ill wait till they are end of life or next gen cards are released as next gen wont be any different to how this launch went.

Not blaming OCUK for the pricing as not like any other retailer is any better/different but i refuse to pay more when its hyped for a set price on release day then oh sorry its this price now. AMD/Nvidia are equally to blame for this.
 
If actual physical stock at MSRP had been available for the 5070ti, I'd have bought that.

But of course it wasn't, so I overpaid for a 9070xt. The Asus prime was the only one in stock at the time, so I paid Asus tax too :p

Impressed with the card though, it's a huge improvement over my old 3070.
 
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looking to upgrade from a GTX 1080, for me i originally wanted a 5080 but can't stomach the price of it for a 16gb card that should have been a 24gb card.
then i had a look at the 4060TI as a stop gap, still considering it. but i'd probably be better getting a 5070 Ti, trouble is that is at an inflated in price . if i am paying over the odds for a 5070Ti i might as well just get a 5080 but i hate that its only 16gb. Seems a rip off! Nvidia again isn't offering a clear value for money winner for this series and i think if there was one people would be buying it like hot cakes.
 
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After missing out on 9070 & 9070 XT at launch pricing, I bought a used 7800 XT for £320.

After seeing the 5060 Ti reviews, that still feels like a good decision :p It'll be interesting to see what the 9060 XT brings to the table.

EDIT: I hadn't noticed that 5070 prices had dropped to £499. If I hadn't bought the 7800 XT, I'd be tempted by one of those.
 
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McPhee said:
After missing out on 9070 & 9070 XT at launch pricing, I bought a used 7800 XT for £320.

After seeing the 5060 Ti reviews, that still feels like a good decision :p It'll be interesting to see what the 9060 XT brings to the table.

EDIT: I hadn't noticed that 5070 prices had dropped to £499. If I hadn't bought the 7800 XT, I'd be tempted by one of those.
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The 5070 isn't worth anything with 12g. I suppose I'd take one for free if I had no other option.

There is a good reason they're sitting on shelves.

It's a £550 card for medium settings at best. And various deep dives have shown stuttering in modern games even then. You'll constantly be hitting the vram limit.

8g cards are an unfunny joke in 2025, where 16g is now bare minimum for anything other than e. Sports.
 
Nothing until pricing returns to semi normal levels.

I have a 3070 and really want to upgrade to something with a minimum of 16GB VRAM.

An MSRP 9070XT would have ticked the box but I refuse to get drawn into this game that everyone seems to be playing at the expense of the consumer.

The weather is getting better so I’d rather be outside biking and spend money on that.

GPU upgrade can wait.
 
threebagsfull said:
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8g cards are an unfunny joke in 2025, where 16g is now bare minimum for anything other than e. Sports.
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Today I agree, although I do remember back when the original 3080 10GB was released everyone on here said that 10GB would be a massive limiting factor, over 4 year later @ 3440x1440 I've not ran into any issues thus far.
 
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GuruJockStrap said:
Nothing until pricing returns to semi normal levels.
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This from someones who had everything from a NVIDIA GeForce4 4800ti, through to ATI x850 xt pe golden samples(in crossfire) through to 8800gtx ultra ie most flagship gpus from the 2000s onwards. Upgrading the day anything new came out.
Price are a complete and utter joke these days for nothing exciting or ground breaking and games are trash so whats the point in having a high end card to play unoptimized trash.

These days im not about willy waving with hardware in my sign - Instead Im playing my steam back cat and its saved me a fortune a fortune id rather spend on a nice holiday, my car or the house. :D
 
Spils said:
This from someones who had everything from a NVIDIA GeForce4 4800ti, through to ATI x850 xt pe golden samples(in crossfire) through to 8800gtx ultra ie most flagship gpus from the 2000s onwards. Upgrading the day anything new came out.
Price are a complete and utter joke these days for nothing exciting or ground breaking and games are trash so whats the point in having a high end card to play unoptimized trash.

These days im not about willy waving with hardware in my sign - Instead Im playing my steam back cat and its saved me a fortune a fortune id rather spend on a nice holiday, my car or the house. :D
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Yeah it's worth remembering that the 9070 is a mid range card. These prices are anything but mid range.

The 5080 is the first high end card, and that should really have 24g vram at it's £1000 price point.

We're just being asked to pay more and get less this gen.
 
Spils said:
This from someones who had everything from a NVIDIA GeForce4 4800ti, through to ATI x850 xt pe golden samples(in crossfire) through to 8800gtx ultra ie most flagship gpus from the 2000s onwards. Upgrading the day anything new came out.
Price are a complete and utter joke these days for nothing exciting or ground breaking and games are trash so whats the point in having a high end card to play unoptimized trash.

These days im not about willy waving with hardware in my sign - Instead Im playing my steam back cat and its saved me a fortune a fortune id rather spend on a nice holiday, my car or the house. :D
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Same here, I 'had' upgraded to every GPU release since the Voodoo 2!! but since the 3080(10GB) that has stopped, the Steam Deck has essentially been free with the money I saved on not upgrading my GPU over two generations now, will probably even wait it out for 6000 series, with a combination of G-SYNC and DLSS games still run well for me.
 
pastymuncher said:
So sad that people think that £730 is reasonable for a mid range card such as the 5070ti (it certainly isn't high end). Before Covid that class of card would have been less than £400!!
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Unfortunately, AI is like the super COVID that isn't going away

All so Google can summarise a Wiki page on page 1 of your search results, and you can deepfake Judi Dench into an adult movie... (Other use cases may exist).
 
pastymuncher said:
So sad that people think that £730 is reasonable for a mid range card such as the 5070ti (it certainly isn't high end). Before Covid that class of card would have been less than £400!!
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RTX 2070 was £440 ($500) in 2018, with inflation that's £565 today.

28% inflation, real inflation in this country is higher than that. This GPU actually also only costs £608, 20% or £122 is tax, the higher the USD price the more tax you pay, it compounds.

If you feel poor, its because increasingly the UK is.
 
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