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harmattan said:
Eh... Or they're not mature enough to talk to their partners like adults and make bad financial decisions. £2500 is a ton of money for some people, and just like any personal luxury purchase, tons of people overextend themselves because they feel like they "have to have it" and/or "deserve it" without discussing what might be a bad decision as a unit.

Even I, for whom this amount isn't a huge deal, know tell my wife to expect a charge on our card lest she think it's fraud or thinks I've gone squirrelly buying a £2k+ video game toy (for which she would have a very valid point :) ). For others, it's a more inportant discussion to be had about budgeting, savings, and the value of things.
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Going OT a bit but this is why my wife and I have separate accounts for our own purchases and a joint account we pay into for household bills. As long as the bills are paid, no issues with silly PC toys.
 
KentMan said:
Weirdly looks like AMD officially launched these in China,

$599 for 9070XT
$549 for 9070

$50 higher than I expected tbh but they are still priced competitively I guess, although I suspect initial stock will fly off the shelves I reckon Nvidia will adjust its price and AMD will likely drop lower in a few months

Interestingly someone pointed out that the 7900GRE was launched in china at a higher price than everywhere else. So don’t be surprised if the official global pricing changes later today lol.

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AMD RDNA4 officially presented in China: Radeon RX 9070 XT priced at 4999 RMB (~$599), RX 9070 at 4499 RMB (~$549) - VideoCardz.com

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT might cost $599 AMD surprises with pricing. The Radeon RX 9070 XT series will cost 4999 RMB, and RX 9070 cards will retail at 4499 RMB. These are the official prices of Radeon RX 9070 cards in China. The cards were officially presented during a special event for...
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I'm a bit skeptical about this. AMD said they would have a full launch event in the 'near future' after barely mentioning it at CES, so is this it? A small unannounced event somewhere in China and in Chinese?

Scratch that turns out there is full event scheduled on their main YouTube channel from 13:00
 
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CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
FOMO crowd who did the same during the Pandemic.
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I think this unprecedented period was responsible for Nvidia and AMD thinking they could get away with utterly bonkers prices. I’m hoping it looks like AMD learned a lesson but obviously Nvidia haven’t and people still reward them.

Will these alleged RDNA4 prices help push Nvidia to do a price reduction? I don’t think anyone can defend 5070Ti or 5080 pricing now. Even the 5090 looks woeful if a GPU gives ~60% the performance for 30% of the price.
 
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Freddie1980 said:
I'm a bit skeptical about this. AMD said they would have a full launch event in the 'near future' after barely mentioning it at CES, so is this it? A small unannounced event somewhere in China and in Chinese?
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They have a full launch event in 4 hours time.
 
I deffo run purchases like this via Mrs. Nitefly. We have some pretty mega outgoings at the moment and this month is unusually tight, so I offered up the 5090 pre-order for the chopping block.

However, she was absolutely adamant that I get more FPS and an overall much better gaming experience than @mrk - I couldn’t argue with that.

Unfortunately, that means we still have to budget for a sprinkler system.
 
Freddie1980 said:
I'm a bit skeptical about this. AMD said they would have a full launch event in the 'near future' after barely mentioning it at CES, so is this it? A small unannounced event somewhere in China and in Chinese?
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No, there is also an official event later today for a price and performance reveal. This China event was unannounced and was for their market. What this does is just provide the most concrete price indicator we have seen yet.
 
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ICDP said:
Going OT a bit but this is why my wife and I have separate accounts for our own purchases and a joint account we pay into for household bills. As long as the bills are paid, no issues with silly PC toys.
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the same it was decided when we bought our first house and it works well for us , she saves I spend until I run out
 
Nitefly said:
I deffo run purchases like this via Mrs. Nitefly. We have some pretty mega outgoings at the moment and this month is unusually tight, so I offered up the 5090 pre-order for the chopping block.

However, she was absolutely adamant that I get more FPS and an overall much better gaming experience than @mrk - I couldn’t argue with that.

Unfortunately, that means we still have to budget for a sprinkler system.
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I mentioned 4 months ago the computer is four years old in Feb and its time to start thinking about upgrading it ,but I do tend to build on a tighter budget what with warhammer ect on the side things can get expensive there
 
R3dRaven said:
$600 for 9070xt msrp, I bet you can add another $100 to that from retailers..... not what we wanted.
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To be fair to AMD this is actually a great MSRP if true AND if the alleged performance is true. The scalping from retailers is due to limited supply and if there is reasonable stock the scalping should be minimal.

If stock is limited then yes, that’s on AMD as it drives scalping and they (as well as Nvidia) know this. So if we end with more fake MSRP nonsense, then AMD deserves the same stick Nvidia have been getting.
 
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Under £600 for the entry level models would be pretty good. I'll probably get one at some point in a few months if that's the case.

I'm surprised there is such a small difference between the 9070 and 9070xt though. Who's buying the 9070 if it's only £50-£60 less :confused:
 
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And it's going to be £600 9070XT and £500 9070 with tax over here

I mean, that's fine if that's how it ends up. But we know we'll be seeing AIB cards at 700+
 
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Jono8 said:
Under £600 for the entry level models would be pretty good. I'll probably get one at some point in a few months if that's the case.

I'm surprised there is such a small difference between the 9070 and 9070xt though. Who's buying the 9070 if it's only £50-£60 less :confused:
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AMD have a habit of doing it tbh

It's the reverse of diminishing returns
 
Martini1991 said:
And it's going to be £600 9070XT and £500 9070 with tax over here

I mean, that's fine if that's how it ends up. But we know we'll be seeing AIB cards at 700+
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This has always been the case with GPUs. The reality is that it is the base MSRP that GPUs are judged on each gen. Higher end AIBs have always been a more premium option.

If these MSRP are accurate, then the 9070 XT is going to look very good value compared to the 5070Ti and especially the 5070.

Imagine a GPU only 10% more expensive and ~25% faster with 4GB more VRAM and I see no way these won’t review well compared to the 5070 and 5070 Ti.
 
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What a shame no MBA :(
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