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humbug said:
The one thing AMD did do wrong was not sell reference cards, i hope they go back to doing exactly that because clearly their partners cannot be trusted to not immediately go for the consumers jugular as soon as they have nothing holding their feet to the fire.
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AMD doesn't make the reference cards though - it's the AIBs, to a reference design.
 
ICDP said:
You are looking at it from a performance only perspective.

It works out about 55% better and an additional 60% more VRAM when we consider MSRP (ignoring fake MSRP for both). Not amazing but certainly not terrible and not as bad as many of you are trying to imply.

I’m not defending AMD here, just pointing out all the relevant variables. I say this as a former 3080 owner who got mine for MSRP.
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Maybe on the 3080 but the 6800XT already had 16gb vram and was $650 while the 6800 also had 16gb and came in at $600 all those years ago so progress hasn’t exactly been amazing.
 
ChosenName said:
AMD doesn't make the reference cards though - it's the AIBs, to a reference design.
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IDK where AMD's RX 7000 series reference cards were made. But not necessarily, Nvidia FE cards are made by Foxconn, the same people who make Apple phones and the socket your CPU sits in.

They could be made by anyone...
 
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humbug said:
The one thing AMD did do wrong was not sell reference cards, i hope they go back to doing exactly that because clearly their partners cannot be trusted to not immediately go for the consumers jugular as soon as they have nothing holding their feet to the fire.

I want to see UDNA reference cards, AMD, they betrayed you and tech journalists are going to do the same the moment they have their Russian Key sites sign sponsor contracts.
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It's the retailers are the main culprits. A competitor added nearly £100 to the base 9070XT's within seconds of people adding them to baskets. I had a £570 card in the basket and at the payment stage when it shot up to £675 just when I was about to verify payment via the bank app. That is daylight robbery and many actually processed payment without actually realizing what happened. Luckily I saw the increase and cancelled.
 
humbug said:
IDK where AMD's RX 7000 series reference cards were made. But not necessarily, Nvidia FE cards are made by Foxconn, the same people who make Apple phones and the socket your CPU sits in.

They could be made by anyone...
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Anyone who would be prepared to accept AMD's set price per unit....

My reference 5700XT and 6800 were made by Sapphire.
 
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Dicehunter said:
Give it about a year and you may be able to.
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Dunno. I got a sneaking suspicion they might drop to that (well 449-499) relatively quickly.
Rumours surrounding the 9060 & xt are gathering pace and seems like there’ll be a 16gb variant at the 60 level too - which could well be within my budget/criteria, long before next year.
 
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