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Yeah people need to realise this isn’t a sale, this is prices returning to where they should have been. We still haven’t seen a sale on any of these GPUs.
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OUR LOWEST PRICE EVER ON 9070 XT (BETTER THAN PRIME) - £555
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OcUK GUIDE TO ORDERING YOUR AMD 9070 GRAPHICS CARD TODAY AT 14:00
Hi there So first of all let me wish you good luck for today. Due to immense traffic to our website over last 24hrs due to a Borg Armada reference and sighting of a very large solid cube made from Sapphire 9070 XT Pulse cards our website traffic has gone absolutely bonkers. Anti BOT/Script...
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It's a £14.99 saving over launch MSRP=it's on sale.
Those prices were inflated.OcUK GUIDE TO ORDERING YOUR AMD 9070 GRAPHICS CARD TODAY AT 14:00
Hi there So first of all let me wish you good luck for today. Due to immense traffic to our website over last 24hrs due to a Borg Armada reference and sighting of a very large solid cube made from Sapphire 9070 XT Pulse cards our website traffic has gone absolutely bonkers. Anti BOT/Script...
It's a £14.99 saving over launch MSRP=it's on sale.
Back then we were assured they'd never be cheaper either, yet here we are.
Assured is a strong word, I can't seem to find evidence of it? I see reference to how the special MSRP sale would be over and higher prices would resume immediately afterwards, but that's obviously not talking about prices >6months later.
You have to remember the MSRP at launch was just a dollar conversion +vat based on the strength of the pound at the time, since launch the pound has strengthened quite a bit, up from 1.26 in march to 1.34 today.OcUK GUIDE TO ORDERING YOUR AMD 9070 GRAPHICS CARD TODAY AT 14:00
Hi there So first of all let me wish you good luck for today. Due to immense traffic to our website over last 24hrs due to a Borg Armada reference and sighting of a very large solid cube made from Sapphire 9070 XT Pulse cards our website traffic has gone absolutely bonkers. Anti BOT/Script...
It's a £14.99 saving over launch MSRP=it's on sale.
You also have to take in to account that AMD started shipping these to retailers at the start of the year when the pound dipped as low as 1.22 so the slightly higher launch price probably reflected that.
Unless Nvidia is planning to substantially beef up the 5070 super performance or slash the price of the 5070ti super I can't see prices dropping by that much at least till this time next year.
I didn't say Nvidia were dropping the price... I said the AMD card will need to be £449.
They were talking about doubting the AMD card price dropping to 449 as you said before.
I can't see it either.
What was that techtuber channel spouting that AMD needed to be a fraction of Nvidia prices, HUB wasn't it and then we had the 9000 cards all selling above MSRP for months and months. Not sitting on the shelf and ignored but selling.
Speculated I'd say, link to post by Gibbo.
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In Jan when the Supers are out the AMD cards will be 2 months short of a year old, the honeymoon period is over, there is stock freely available all over the place - the tech press have done a great job of making sure people look mainly at VRAM so when the 18GB 5070 is out at £499, the 9070 XT will either have to match it or be a good amount less not more. I get people asking for 5070's all of the time still, trying to explain to them the 9070 or 9070 XT is already hard work and that is when Nvidia are significantly behind on price/performance.
Set your alarm for the Super launch and give me an @ if I am wrong I'll say fair enough, but I doubt I'll be wrong.
Well I'm reading you saying the faster card with 16GB of memory needs to be £50 cheaper than the slower card with 18GB.
That's putting a lot of weight on edge cases of 18GB being enough where 16GB fails and for this not to be a joke, the cards have to be putting out proper fps at those settings. I say edge cases because at 16vs18GB the youtubers will be sweating to make a scenario that lands in the 12.5% extra memory band. It's far from 100% more like 4v8, 50% more like 8v12 or even 33% more like 12v16.
Of course there's room for haggling over what "need" means so I'll define what I'm doubting as AMD finding it financially necessary to slash the price to 449 (over £100 lower than today) to sell as many as they'd like.
We will see.
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I caved and bought a RX 9070 XT, the Gigabyte Gaming OC.
Still not selling my RX 7900 XTX. The RX 9070 XT will go in another system, to experience FSR4, plus other meddling.
Besides price, amount of VRAM had been what held me back from buying into Navi48, but more and more I looked at it become questionable if this was an issue.
Some recent TPU reviews sorted by highest VRAM usage at 4K.
www.techpowerup.com
www.techpowerup.com
www.techpowerup.com
www.techpowerup.com
I also take the view all never makes in to the news.
www.tomshardware.com
www.tomshardware.com
So perhaps on the horizon are techniques that may get implemented to lower VRAM usage, dunno, but food for thought.
Still not selling my RX 7900 XTX. The RX 9070 XT will go in another system, to experience FSR4, plus other meddling.
Besides price, amount of VRAM had been what held me back from buying into Navi48, but more and more I looked at it become questionable if this was an issue.
Some recent TPU reviews sorted by highest VRAM usage at 4K.
Battlefield 6 Performance Benchmark Review - 40+ GPUs Tested
Battlefield 6 is coming! The newest version of the large-scale warfare game brings numerous improvements, but sticks to the battle-tested Frostbite Engine. In our performance review, we examine its graphical fidelity, VRAM usage, and how well it runs on a variety of modern GPUs.
Borderlands 4 Performance Benchmark Review - 30+ GPUs Tested
Borderlands 4 brings major improvements to gameplay, gunplay and character progression, while finally delivering a true open-world experience. Hardware requirements are steep, though. In our performance review, we examine its graphical fidelity, VRAM usage, and how well it runs on a variety of...
Silent Hill f Performance Benchmark Review - 30+ GPUs Tested
Silent Hill f brings new material for lovers of the survival horror genre. While the game uses Unreal Engine 5, it generally runs much better than recent titles like Borderlands 4. In our performance review, we examine its graphical fidelity, VRAM usage, and how well it runs on a variety of...
Dying Light: The Beast Performance Benchmark Review - 30+ GPUs Tested
Dying Light: The Beast improves core mechanics with smoother parkour, satisfying melee combat, and the introduction of Beast Powers, while delivering a strong story. In our performance review, we examine its graphical fidelity, VRAM usage, and how well it runs on a variety of modern GPUs.
I also take the view all never makes in to the news.
VRAM-friendly neural texture compression inches closer to reality — enthusiast shows massive compression benefits with Nvidia and Intel demos
AI texture decompression promises better image quality, lower resource usage
AMD researchers reduce graphics card VRAM capacity of 3D-rendered trees from 38GB to just 52 KB with work graphs and mesh nodes — shifting CPU work to the GPU yields tremendous results
What would take 38GB of VRAM to hold now takes just a measly 52KB.
So perhaps on the horizon are techniques that may get implemented to lower VRAM usage, dunno, but food for thought.
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