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At what point do you say GPU's are too expensive and refuse to buy?

It's those little things, you know, the attention to details, like the haribo pack, lube perhaps, that delights .... anal-retentive people.


Disclaimer: it is a play on words, but it is also a real term/expression, so don't shoot the... massenger <- for the mod team :)
 
9070XT is most expensive card I've ever bought at £569. Replaced my 3070Ti FE which cost £519 I think.

I thought about a 5080 this gen, until I saw the prices and the fire hazard lol

Glad I didn't pull the trigger on 5080 as 9070XT has allowed me to crank up settings at 4k and runs cooler than 3070Ti still
 
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I'm happy to stick with my RX7800XT Sapphire Pulse that i got from OC for £419, My 5950X and 64GB of DDR4 3600 ram, Tinkering with the 7800XT it now boosts to 3038MHZ with a 75 degree hotspot and it plays what i want great at 1440P on my Alienware AW3423DW QD-OLED which i got from a mate for £550 with barely 20 hours of use by him, I mainly sim like MSFS, AC, ACC, LMU and Automobilista 2 etc, I have no plans to upgrade anytime soon.
 
GhostDog1981 said:
I really truly believe the 9070XT at £650+ is priced too high for its performance. As time goes on flagship performance should be offered for 50% cost in the next gen as a 700xt or 70xt as they’re known as now.

Eg 6900xt was $999 and then came the 7800XT (aka 70class) for $499 offering 98% of the prev gen flagship performance.


AMD are profiting by charging $100 more this time round for the fake msrp ($599 in reality $700-800) 9070XT.

People can make excuses for these companies stating increasing manufacturing costs etc but as a gamer I don’t really care for all that. All I want is for prev gen price to performance to be maintained otherwise I see people keeping hold of their cards longer between upgrades.

Just my two pence.
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You can easily get a 9070xt for well under £700. You might have to wait a week though.

But you're right, Nvidia delivered 4090 performance for £800 so they made AMD look silly there, didn't they.
 
Bidley said:
You can easily get a 9070xt for well under £700. You might have to wait a week though.

But you're right, Nvidia delivered 4090 performance for £800 so they made AMD look silly there, didn't they.
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But I’d want one for £569.99 not between £600-700.

I didn’t know Nvidia had a great price to performance card released? When and what was that lmao?
 
GhostDog1981 said:
I didn’t know Nvidia had a great price to performance card released? When and what was that lmao?
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He's applying your rule of:

GhostDog1981 said:
As time goes on flagship performance should be offered for 50% cost in the next gen
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In your fantasy criteria, nvidia should offer 4090 performance for £800. That's being generous as apart from a few months where its sale price was lowest, the price it would have been selling for most of its time would be closer to £900 (50%).
 
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gpuerrilla said:
He's applying your rule of:



In your fantasy criteria, nvidia should offer 4090 performance for £800. That's being generous as apart from a few months where its sale price was lowest, the price it would have been selling for most of its time would be closer to £900 (50%).
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Nvidia really should offer 4090 performance for 70/70ti tier. The reason they don’t is they can get away without doing it and still make bank.

This is why the market is so screwed right now if we don’t expect a lot of performance next gen for half the price. Eg 3060ti (£369) was equivalent to a 2080 super that was selling for £700…..

Well I can’t legislate for people overpaying and this is why the manufacturers are raising prices.
 
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GhostDog1981 said:
Well I can’t legislate for people overpaying and this is why the manufacturers are raising prices.
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Capitalism in a nut shell - stuff is worth as much as people are willing to pay for it. Which is why we have super ridiculous situations now where shops are selling faulty Nvidia cards (with missing ROPs), open box (so, returned to them) with just a bit lower prices than brand new ones. Because Nvidia decided to not do a recall of that and so they're still considered good, just slower. I hope nobody is silly enough to buy that.
 
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GhostDog1981 said:
Nvidia really should offer 4090 performance for 70/70ti tier. The reason they don’t is they can get away without doing it and still make bank.

This is why the market is so screwed right now if we don’t expect a lot of performance next gen for half the price. Eg 3060ti (£369) was equivalent to a 2080 super that was selling for £700…..

Well I can’t legislate for people overpaying and this is why the manufacturers are raising prices.
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The reason Nvidia get away with it because people are happy to give AMD a kicking over price, then turn around and salivate over a 5070ti.

I find it utterly bizarre that on this forum people are paying around £2500 for a GPU that offers 25% over the previous gen flagship, but when somebody buys a 9070xt for anything approaching £700 it's some kind of economic apocalypse :cry:
 
GhostDog1981 said:
Nvidia really should offer 4090 performance for 70/70ti tier. The reason they don’t is they can get away without doing it and still make bank.
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Yeah, I would really want your improvement condition but I think the issue has been for too long people invest blindly buying the one brand. To go against your tier reasoning, they also at the same time have been diluting the stack. A 70 class card is now realistically a 60 etc. The gap between the 80 and 90 is another example of their questionable behaviour. This gen as a guide for your expectation is the £800 gets you a 70Ti yet it falls way way short of the 4090. The 70Ti should also be around £500, there's your £300 price hike for nowhere near last gen flagship performance. Your being done from both ends.
 
cjgardens said:
For me, anything over £400-450 is to expensive. I usually buy used so I can get a decent card in budget. I could spend more but I think it's silly when you can get a full console for that price new.
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I definitely agree with that sentiment. I only really spent more this time as I had a tax rebate :p Any more than £500 for a GPU just doesn't make sense to me.
 
Bidley said:
Yeah I wouldn't have paid that for a Prime, but it's your shout. Hope you enjoy your card, don't let anyone guilt-trip you :)
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Seems a nicely made card to be fair, but definitely overpriced at £700. My patience just ran out and I hit the buy button :p

Then of course ocuk got a load of sapphire pulses in for a much more reasonable £650. Sods law.
 
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