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I think to compete with NVIDIA's mindshare advantage, AMD need to price their cards exactly the same as NVIDIA, but be faster.

For example, the 9070 XT should be $750, but 30% faster than the 5070ti.

It's too awkward to be 13.3% cheaper and 12.7% faster, which does work out to the same 30% price/performance improvement. Doing it this way makes the AMD feel like the 'budget' card and the NVIDIA feel like the 'premium' card, and price/performance gets lost in the numbers. Does that make sense?

For marketing purposes, it should "same price, 30% faster". Simple.
What about %30 faster than 5070 12GB but with $549 fake MSRP as well :cry:
 
Not sure what I've done now but whatever.

I assumed that quoting you in my reply was clear enough. Here's an explanation:

You wrote this:
So instead of spending the same amount of money to get more performance you choose to get the same performance but save £100?

Why am i finding that hard to believe, could it be that outside of the money is no object type of people I've never heard of someone deciding on what GPU to buy based exclusively on performance, how most people seem to set a budget rather than a minimum required FPS.

You never heard of someone doing that. Now you have heard of someone doing that. More than one person. There are people who don't set a fixed budget and spend all of it, never spending less regardless of what's available at a price lower than their budget. There are people who set their budget as a maximum spend, not a required spend.
 
Chinese leakers say the RX9070 series is going to be priced aggressively:

Still vague since they generalised the card name. The leak could in theory mean that the base 9070 could go up to £600!

With that said it's a leak and I get at least a little bit excited when I see some news. It's the most we've had for about 10 pages :D
 
If AMD want to really gain the marketshare they have to price extremely aggressively, even making a loss if they have to for long term gain. As their top chap said developers are not incentivised to optimise for a platform with 15% marketshare even if they could. (Case in point the WoW DX12 crashing bug on the 7000 series which has still not been fixed as far as I am aware).

My fear though is even if they do this, they might not be able to actually produce enough cards to meet demand. Fab capacity is a finite resourcce there's only so many silicon wafers to go around.
 
If AMD want to really gain the marketshare they have to price extremely aggressively, even making a loss if they have to for long term gain. As their top chap said developers are not incentivised to optimise for a platform with 15% marketshare even if they could. (Case in point the WoW DX12 crashing bug on the 7000 series which has still not been fixed as far as I am aware).

My fear though is even if they do this, they might not be able to actually produce enough cards to meet demand. Fab capacity is a finite resourcce there's only so many silicon wafers to go around.
They can price aggressively, but then it’s down to the retailers that have turned into scalpers that are ruining it. Only got to look at the 50 series prices.
 
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AMD are not really missing any major features or performance this time around. The hardware and software will be excellent.

There isn't a single gaming feature that seems to be missing from the spec sheet, it won't run hot and it will be a very powerful card.
 
AMD are not really missing any major features or performance this time around. The hardware and software will be excellent.

There isn't a single gaming feature that seems to be missing from the spec sheet, it won't run hot and it will be a very powerful card.
Any more info on it, Mystic Meg? :D

I have no hopes for this card now. I’m sure it’ll be another good card, ruined by AMD’s management.
Just waiting for Intel to do something, because it’s difficult to support the other two.
 
I have no hopes for this card now. I’m sure it’ll be another good card, ruined by AMD’s management.
Just waiting for Intel to do something, because it’s difficult to support the other two.

Regardless of how AMD decides to price their new cards, improving raytracing and providing a solution that can compete with DLSS would be nice. Intel releasing something more powerful than the B6580 would also be interesting to see.
 
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