just look at where 4060s sit they are the replacement for them and where they are priced currently. they dont even sell there. £300 cards. at best. 9600xt at £400 isnt a long term card so not worth £400 just like the 5060ti aint.
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Poll: What would you buy in the £400 - £700 ?
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@Gibbo please add 'nothing' to your poll - that's what I vote, am so done with this bs and the world of artificial panic to push up sales, worlds gone mad.
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And the 9070 non xt. Would have to redo the poll tho.
The best value cards in this price range, are the RX 7800 XT, RTX 5070 and RX 9070.
For me (for a new build), it would probably be the RX 9070, but for 1080p, the RX 7800 XT should handle 99% of games very well, with high minimum framerates.
If AMD comes up with a replacement for the RX 7800 XT, I imagine it would be pretty competitive.
A RX 7700 XT class GPU at around £300 would offer the best value.
The RTX 5070 seems OK at £500. But wouldn’t pay more. It’s cheaper than the RX 9070, and only a bit slower.
It handles demanding games like Silent Hill 2 remake and Starwars Outlaws well, at 1080p:
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5070-founders-edition/34.html
Prices on the RTX 5070 TI are ludicrous.
It would be good to see RX 9070 XTs priced at £600.
For me (for a new build), it would probably be the RX 9070, but for 1080p, the RX 7800 XT should handle 99% of games very well, with high minimum framerates.
If AMD comes up with a replacement for the RX 7800 XT, I imagine it would be pretty competitive.
A RX 7700 XT class GPU at around £300 would offer the best value.
The RTX 5070 seems OK at £500. But wouldn’t pay more. It’s cheaper than the RX 9070, and only a bit slower.
It handles demanding games like Silent Hill 2 remake and Starwars Outlaws well, at 1080p:
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5070-founders-edition/34.html
Prices on the RTX 5070 TI are ludicrous.
It would be good to see RX 9070 XTs priced at £600.
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I bought a 9070xt Sapphire pure for £635 - it was the best value at the time.
Between a £699 xt and a 5070ti at £729 - it depends what the cooler is like on the ti - my pure is whisper quiet, which counts for a lot.
If the ti sounds like an aircraft taking off, then that would be a no go for me.
My 9070xt pure does fine at 4k and looks great in my white with some black bits, and brushed metal on my mobo, build.
We all wanted an xt between £5-600 though, and preferably at the lower end of that, but we are where we are.
Between a £699 xt and a 5070ti at £729 - it depends what the cooler is like on the ti - my pure is whisper quiet, which counts for a lot.
If the ti sounds like an aircraft taking off, then that would be a no go for me.
My 9070xt pure does fine at 4k and looks great in my white with some black bits, and brushed metal on my mobo, build.
We all wanted an xt between £5-600 though, and preferably at the lower end of that, but we are where we are.
Sapphire cards are great, I have the Pulse and it's very well engineered for being an MSRP card.
Those MSRP Gainward and Palit 50 series cards don't look great, I didn't realise but the backplate is flimsy plastic with a ton of flex.
I've had Sapphires in the past and always appreciated their build aand is why I was always going to go for one this time around.
Got the non-XT Pulse and again pleased with the build, using PTM7950 and being the lowest MSRP card at the time were a big bonus.
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The pulse is basically the same card as the Pure, minus the small overclock, white hardware and led.
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Yep that's the exact card I have got, really impressed with it's build quality and performance/temps. Dead quiet, cool and no coil whine to speak of.
My last card (6750 XT) was an XFX card. Really happy with the Pulse though, wouldn't hesitate to go Sapphire again in the future.
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Ideally, a 9070XT for me, and preferably not at anything north of £650.
The Asrock Challenger 9070 looks somewhat attractive, considering the climate anyway, at £579 (as do the Gigabyte Gaming OC and the Sapphire Pulse).
The downside is the performance difference between that and my current card will result in less than what I am used to seeing.
I might consider a 9070, though I'm managing to hold out to see if prices shift for the better in any shape or form during the coming weeks/months.
It pains me to say it, but the cheaper 5070Ti cards also look, dare I say, somewhat appealing.
However, I'm already feeling a little uncomfortable at the thought of ~£650+ 9070XT's, so I doubt I will seriously consider one.
The Asrock Challenger 9070 looks somewhat attractive, considering the climate anyway, at £579 (as do the Gigabyte Gaming OC and the Sapphire Pulse).
The downside is the performance difference between that and my current card will result in less than what I am used to seeing.
I might consider a 9070, though I'm managing to hold out to see if prices shift for the better in any shape or form during the coming weeks/months.
It pains me to say it, but the cheaper 5070Ti cards also look, dare I say, somewhat appealing.
However, I'm already feeling a little uncomfortable at the thought of ~£650+ 9070XT's, so I doubt I will seriously consider one.
the mid range upper mid range 300 - 500 is a no mans land. all cards in this sector are all £100 too dear. why no one is bothered with em at the current prices.
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Wow, 9070xt way out in the lead!
I guess because you can actually buy one (even if a bit overpriced), who'd have thought eh Nvidia
I guess because you can actually buy one (even if a bit overpriced), who'd have thought eh Nvidia
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My vote would be for the RX 9070.
It performs well in virtually every game at 1080p:
If you want to play demanding games at higher resolutions smoothly, using frame gen should allow that.
It performs well in a few games where the RTX 5070 does not. And it has more VRAM.
Surprisingly low TDP of 220w, for it’s performance (lower than the RX 7800 XT):
www.techpowerup.com
Makes me wonder what AMD could do with a card with double the TDP of 440w.
I hope there’s a £50 price cut, it seems likely in 2025.
It performs well in virtually every game at 1080p:
If you want to play demanding games at higher resolutions smoothly, using frame gen should allow that.
It performs well in a few games where the RTX 5070 does not. And it has more VRAM.
Surprisingly low TDP of 220w, for it’s performance (lower than the RX 7800 XT):
AMD Radeon RX 9070 Specs
AMD Navi 48, 2520 MHz, 3584 Cores, 224 TMUs, 128 ROPs, 16384 MB GDDR6, 2518 MHz, 256 bit
Makes me wonder what AMD could do with a card with double the TDP of 440w.
I hope there’s a £50 price cut, it seems likely in 2025.
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Yeah I was wondering why it wasn't up there, there is even a space for it between the 5070 at £499 and the 7900 XT at £599, it sits right in the middle.My vote would be for the RX 9070.
It performs well in virtually every game at 1080p:
If you want to play demanding games at higher resolutions smoothly, using frame gen should allow that.
It performs well in a few games where the RTX 5070 does not. And it has more VRAM.
Surprisingly low TDP of 220w, for it’s performance (lower than the RX 7800 XT):
AMD Radeon RX 9070 Specs
AMD Navi 48, 2520 MHz, 3584 Cores, 224 TMUs, 128 ROPs, 16384 MB GDDR6, 2518 MHz, 256 bit
Makes me wonder what AMD could do with a card with double the TDP of 440w.
I hope there’s a £50 price cut, it seems likely in 2025.
it's interesting that the TVs, Monitors and a lot of other electronics products don't seem to be affected that much by the inflation... competition, perhaps...?
The entire world is going through the crisis, not the UK only. Most European economies, both Americas, China, South Africa, they all struggle
We are just being extorted by a monopoly. AMD doesn't have much to say on the GPU market, they will just follow Nvidia, take their share and protect the shareholders.
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Or the opposite - there's only really a handful of different manufacturers of actual monitor/tv panels, however they are used in hundreds of different products (i.e. the same panel 32" panel might be in 10 different monitors and 10 different TVs, so probably economies of scale, and large quantities of stock have meant the impact hasn't (yet) been felt.
or the reason being is that the 'handful' is always more than 1 thus they have to compete to sell. If there is no significant collusion on the market, 3 competing companies (with healthy mkts i.e. 40% + 30% + 30%) suffice to make the products and services (and prices) customer focused, at least temporarily until one of them give up or find something more profitable. Monopoly will ALWAYS go for incremental extortion.
We are never going to be told how much the GPU makers really pay for the chips at TSMC but I suspect, much less than we all think.
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I think the problem is that PC gaming is seen as a dying market, it's not something they can grow just through competitive pricing. So both sides have decided to just extract as much money as they can out of what remains.
AMD's GPU division probably make most of their money out of selling chips to console manufacturers, NVidia likewise to other industries. The average PC gamer is bottom of the list nowadays.
AMD's GPU division probably make most of their money out of selling chips to console manufacturers, NVidia likewise to other industries. The average PC gamer is bottom of the list nowadays.