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So 7900xtx still a good card for the foreseeable?
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Why wouldn't it be?
I think so, you should wait tho, the new cards are out in about 2 weeks.
What manufacturers are good to go to for AMD cards? I've been team green for a long while, but will likely try to pick up a 9070XT. Need it to be as quiet as possible (whilst as performant as possible of course).
Sapphire.
Sapphire, PowerColor and XFX are all generally really solid for AMD cards, as you'd expect from exclusive partners. Personally, I wouldn't look outside of those three, but ASRock would probably be next in line. I'd avoid Asus and Gigabyte entirely. They've historically treated AMD cards as afterthoughts and put little care into their design or construction. MSI the same, but they've already jumped ship.What manufacturers are good to go to for AMD cards? I've been team green for a long while, but will likely try to pick up a 9070XT. Need it to be as quiet as possible (whilst as performant as possible of course
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Because I'm driving myself simple trying to figure out if I should return it and try for something newer (50 series or 9070xt).
It's a fantastic card right now for 4k high refresh but I'm worried more and more stuff will have baked in ray tracing and it will be useless within a year or two, which would also lead to terrible resale value.
So i can just makeup anything and when asked for link say use your own time to find. Lol.
Unless you can afford a 5090 then any other 50xx card would seem very much a pointless sidegrade.
9070xt is likely to be a downgrade for the most part.
Can't see it "being useless" even in 5 years. Raytracing uptake has been so slow that even in 5 years time I doubt it will be embraced everywhere. Even if you did change, then unless you went for a 4090 or 5090, anything else is going to be a VRAM reduction, which may be more of a limiting factor in a few years time than your "early gen" raytracing tech.
Hmm, would a 7900 xtx be a decent pick up now then rather than playing the waiting game for rdna4 cards?
One of my goals is displayport 2.1.
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XFX Radeon RX 9070 non-XT cards spotted on Amazon, boost up to 2.7 GHz - VideoCardz.com
XFX Radeon RX 9070 SWIFT and QUICK SILVER pictured Thanks to the leak from Amazon, we have the first look at official images Radeon RX 9070 from XFX, and no, these are not XT variants. Some of our readers were concerned that the focus on RDNA4 seems to be on the 9070 XT variant. However, […]
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They’re not cheap anymore btw. (Circa £900)
I’d save the outlay for next gen or buy a 9070 XT.
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I wonder whether OCUK will have the mba 9070 and 9070XT? @Gibbo
Well now we know the 9070XT is rumoured to be about right where the utterly underwhelming 5070Ti hit. That means AMD can’t price this product over $699 max and that is their “we aren’t the budget brand” price. Realistically we are looking at $650 max, well at least for their fake never to be seen MSRP.
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The 7900 XTX is going out of stock faster than I have ever seen. I think the RX 9070 XT will perform at the same, or in excess of the 7900 XTX.
However, the disaster known as the RTX 5000 series (no stock, vastly overpriced when in stock) has pushed lots of enthusiasts towards AMD.
So, my prediction is that the RX 9070 XT will sell-out faster then we will believe upon release. Due to performance and price of RDNA 4.
So, it depends upon whether you need a GPU right now. Or can wait for the madness to subside, around summer time. I predict that with the fair weather people will focus on other stuff rather than shiny new GPU's during the sunny weather.
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What manufacturers are good to go to for AMD cards? I've been team green for a long while, but will likely try to pick up a 9070XT. Need it to be as quiet as possible (whilst as performant as possible of course
If the 7000 series was any indication, all the card builds from all the companies were decent across the board (with the exception of the MBA version i.e. FE). The theory is AMD AIBs don't need to cut corners as much in PCB components and cooling solutions as much as nV AIBs do. A few tear down videos out there showing how all the AMD models were very good, even some base ones being over-engineered whereas some nV models were questionable.
But generally, Sapphire Nitro and Powercolor Red Devil (to which I can attest myself) are the "Strix" and "Suprim" equivalents on the AMD side.
Not in 90% of the country with crap internet and you still get really bad latency on anything competitive
There are only a couple of GPUs with more VRAM and only a handful of GPUs that can beat it. So in that respect, I'd say it's great and would keep one for many years to come. Obviously depends on how much folks care about raytracing, as much as 9070XT will improve on that front, I don't think folks will be buying them for the ray-tracing performance, especially as most games still don't use it or have it as an option that drains FPS, with little gain in visual quality.
I like their better naming scheme, the existing names are so confusing as to what's what in the lineup. That quicksilver looks nice and with only 2x8pins. If it has 0 rpm mode and compares well to the Sapphire Pulse, it could be a decent alternative option.XFX Radeon RX 9070 non-XT cards spotted on Amazon, boost up to 2.7 GHz - VideoCardz.com
XFX Radeon RX 9070 SWIFT and QUICK SILVER pictured Thanks to the leak from Amazon, we have the first look at official images Radeon RX 9070 from XFX, and no, these are not XT variants. Some of our readers were concerned that the focus on RDNA4 seems to be on the 9070 XT variant. However, […]
Also, not wanting to add fuel to the rumour/hype fire... but Paul got another package with the lately arrived review 5070ti and he's excited for this other package...
Why would he be excited? Is it a GPU? Is it an AMD GPU?
These terrible Nvidia launches have been the biggest opportunity AMD has ever had on the GPU front...
For the love of PC gaming AMD... don't mess this up!