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Navi Rumours... should i really take these seriously?

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I've been in the market for a new GPU recently and I've been hearing rumblings the last few days about AMD revealing Navi at CES in January. I've no reason to doubt that, but part of the rumour has surrounded the price of the cards.

The leaks seem to have come from vaguely reputable sources, but I just can't see how they are going to introduce a card that would beat the Vega 64 in performance for $250. if this is true then there is absolutely no point in even thinking about any other option, but I was going to see if I could pick something up in the sales, so if it isn't true and I wait ill be mighty ******!

has anyone heard anything from any actual sources? or anything I've missed? what does everyone else think about this as a possibility? I understand that no one can k now for certain until the announcement, but people here seem to have more of a knowledge and insight so I thought I'd ask anyway!

Ta.
 
Well that’s about the response I was expecting! For info I’m currently running an ancient hd7870xt which is still working and running what I ask it to but I was looking at a vega 64 in the Black Friday deals, now I’m thinking I’ll wait and see what might be available later this year. Vega pricing isn’t likely to go up so either way i should be ok.

I will be watching the specialist press on January 9th though. Just in case!
 
And the reason that I was worried about the validity of the pricing was basically the “new” 590. If you know your gonna announce something like that then why bother to release a rebranded card for a price like that... just didn’t make sense to me. If they do announce the rx 3080 at £250 though it might very well be the first tome that I actually preorder hardware!
 
I’m certainly going to be waiting till after Ces to upgrade. It’s not worth spending £400 on a vega card now if they’re going to be obseye in less than a year and replaced by something better and cheaper! Might look for a 144hz 1440p monitor though I’m the meantime though.
 
Welp, that’ll learn me not to pay attention to rumour! Still might be worth waiting for feb to see what the reviews say but at $699 I’m not going to be rushing out to preorder a Radeon vii...
 
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