I remember the good old days when these cards would have been sold off in a fire sale for like £500, and even then wouldn't sell out that quickly...
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AMD 7900 xtx out of stock.
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I remember the good old days when these cards would have been sold off in a fire sale for like £500, and even then wouldn't sell out that quickly...
Ideally the upcoming (couple of weeks*) 9070XT would be what you are after.
If you need Nvidia cuda for non gaming reasons, then just wait for the summer for 5070ti cards to get down towards msrp pricing if you can.
* probably gona be another better be good at 'F5-ing' situation
I went for a 7900xtx now (at a reasonable price) as for content creation and raw rasterisation, it's a solid card.
Sure, it doesn't have RDNA4, or NVidia framegen or the AI madness... but 24GB RAM on a GPU at that price is likely not going to happen again any time soon.
(and afmf2 along with lossless scaling is easily enough for me if I *want* framegen)
It seems the GPU pricing is all about AI capacity these days, rather than raw rasterisation improvements, and I'm settling with decent value.
Sure, it doesn't have RDNA4, or NVidia framegen or the AI madness... but 24GB RAM on a GPU at that price is likely not going to happen again any time soon.
(and afmf2 along with lossless scaling is easily enough for me if I *want* framegen)
It seems the GPU pricing is all about AI capacity these days, rather than raw rasterisation improvements, and I'm settling with decent value.
If you want a laugh, take a look at the "I've just upgraded to a 7900 XTX/XTX" posts on r/Radeon. It seems like there are a lot of very delusional people suddenly buying old Radeon cards in response to Nvidia 50-series scalping. The consensus among them seems to be that they won't regret their purchase because the 9070 cards are going to have poor availability and high prices, and won't move price/performance forwards much even at MSRP.
Reality is going to hit hard tomorrow, even (and I think this is about the worst case scenario) if the cards are $599/$699 MSRP. No doubt these people will be among the loudest complainers about FSR4 being an RDNA4 exclusive.
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It depends on what they want from the card. If cost is the only metric, and they do come in at MSRP, then maybe some will be unhappy but they would likely be unhappy no matter what.
The sudden realisation that if you want more than 16GB it going to cost you a kidney, going 7900xtx is the way to go. Few people at work are buying them for AI. I’ve never seen them for 700 quid. Well done if you have.
Aye, these days they just get more expensive for some utterly moronic reason. Back in the day there was actually a point to have them hold, or even increase their price, that being sli\crossfire. So if someone wanted one they'd have to buy used or pay the new price, or the new pisstake price. But that didn't happen back then, they'd usually get flogged off that bit cheaper so someone already with a card could get a second to sli\crossfire, get a decent fps bump and they'd be set for another generation
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Was lucky enough to snag a b grade 7900xtx taichi for £600 last week from ocuk.
Can’t possibly see that as a bad buy. If I could have I would have got a FE 5080 but 24gb vram on a solid card for half what the cheapest no FE 5080 would cost me was an absolute win
Can’t possibly see that as a bad buy. If I could have I would have got a FE 5080 but 24gb vram on a solid card for half what the cheapest no FE 5080 would cost me was an absolute win