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Poll: What would you buy in the £400 - £700 ?

What are you buying for upto £700 budget?

  • RTX 5060 Ti 16G at £399

    Votes: 8 3.3%

  • RTX 5070 12G at £499

    Votes: 12 4.9%

  • RTX 5070 Ti 16G at £729

    Votes: 46 18.9%

  • RX 9070 XT 16G at £649-699

    Votes: 148 60.9%

  • RX ????? at £349-399

    Votes: 15 6.2%

  • 7900 XT at £599

    Votes: 7 2.9%

  • Intel B580 £249 - 299

    Votes: 2 0.8%

  • RTX 5060 8G at £299

    Votes: 1 0.4%

  • RX 9070 NONE XT at £549-599

    Votes: 4 1.6%
  • Total voters
    243
uscool said:
Better RT and dlss 4 still has the edge, premium 9070xt should be around £649 to be good deal imo

Premium models are not worth the premium at current prices , you basically paying for aesthetics
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You're right on RT but its far from bad, its still decent, its better than the 5070.

I agree for £650 its ok, if only those were in stock.... better yet at £580 they were great. I don't think anyone could complain at £580.

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Kirkatron said:
Premium models have rarely offered more than a few % gains over their none premium counterparts. People will buy the cheaper models if they just want plain performance.
It's always been about better cooling and aesthetics for the higher end cards.
For some people it is worth it.
The same goes for outside of the computer world too. Some people just want premium things. Cars are a prime example where people pay for a badge despite the underpinnings being the same as their lesser premium badged counterparts.
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Maybe I missed something but the pulse and nitro isn't much difference in it , be it temps, noise levels and performance

Both are overpriced anyway , pulse at £649 and nitro at £719.99 both should be lower

Let's say if base was £549 and nitro £649 even that would look more reasonable
 
humbug said:
Ok, i take that as read, but why when MSRP is achievable for Nvidia, what are AMD doing or not doing?
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It's just pure greed on the part of the manufacturers and the resellers. They're bolting on extras to the card and as there's no official reference design, they're working their own upgrades into the mix even on the normal cards and this is then causing the prices to go up. Steve over at Gamers Nexus mentioned this in his reviews and inability to find any at launch around the actual MSRP. It really is a crappy practice because the manufacturers and resellers know most people will stretch to the higher prices.
 
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If I had to be pushed it would be the 9070 non XT which isn't on the list. Realistically though none of them as they are all overpriced, I can no longer bring myself to pay these over inflated prices. The price of the Nvidia cards are a joke, £500+ for the 5070 with only 12Gb of memory!! At least AMD gives us 16Gb even if £570+/£650+ is a disgrace for what is essentially a pair of cards at the higher end of mid range.
 
uscool said:
Basic 5070ti probably still overall out performs premium 9070xt , even the basic 9070xt to premium 9070xt there really isn't much in it basically just paying for aesthetics
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and temps/noise
Kirkatron said:
So little difference over a 25 game average it is negligible.

Source: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/sapphire-radeon-rx-9070-xt-nitro/
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this is on the older drivers amd got a nice boost on the last update blackbird had them ahead of the 5070ti not ray tracing of course

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Game said:
and temps/noise


this is on the older drivers amd got a nice boost on the last update blackbird had them ahead of the 5070ti not ray tracing of course

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Even though it's the best deal currently it's still overpriced which I won't be entertaining no cards do, with 5070ti hitting MSRP more it's got them more into the mix now
 
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I have a B580 and a RTX 4090. For a new GPU today the budget option has to be the B580, because it's perfectly capable of playing games at acceptable framerates, even if you don't get the highest settings. The reviewers test at max settings to stress the GPU and don't have the time to mess with the settings of each and every game but - outside RT - you lose very little dropping down a notch or two and it doesn't affect the gameplay. A good game is still a good game. Both Daniel Owen and Hardware Unboxed have done videos on this.

BTW I get 60 fps on my 4090 at 1080p in the Black Myth Wukong test when everything is maxxed and not using DLSS. Any game can cripple even the most powerful GPU.
 
Game said:
and temps/noise


this is on the older drivers amd got a nice boost on the last update blackbird had them ahead of the 5070ti not ray tracing of course

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What source is this from put of curiosity? I was trying to find info with latest drivers but most are launch reviews using press release driver.
 
Kirkatron said:
What source is this from put of curiosity? I was trying to find info with latest drivers but most are launch reviews using press release driver.
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These guys from a quick search:

www.youtube.com

Blackbird PC Tech

Break through tech content overload with Blackbird PC Tech, a trusted one-stop-shop to help guide you on your PC building journey. After designing the world's fastest helicopter, leading AI for the world's largest defense contractor and building PC's for over 20 years, you can trust me when I...
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Relatively small youtuber, first time I've heard of them.

The quoted screens appear to be from this video specifically:

 
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If you're giving me £700 to spend on a GPU, it's going to be either the 9070xt or the 5070ti, depending on their prices and how good bad the actual cards are in terms of temp/noise.

I'd rather not have an nvidia "burn your house down edition", but if there's £30 difference between the 9070xt and 5070ti, with comparable temps/noise, then I'm picking a 5070ti for the extra ~£30 that'll I'll throw towards it (+ the cost of a fire extinguisher)

If I were buying any of these, I'd buy -

None of them.

I'd be looking at around the £300 mark, and it seems the performance increase of the lower mid range is pretty **** vs the very high end since the 3000 series. Intel drivers leave much to be desired, probably fine as a second PC card, but not for a main PC.

Any card with 8G is a joke - full stop.

If my card broke tomorrow, and I couldn't deal with the RX580 I've got somewhere (assuming it still works), I'd probably look to pick up (begrudgingly) either a 9060 of some kind, or the 5060ti 16g.

Or I'd say **** it and buy a steam deck.

Or really **** it and take a break from gaming.
 
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Purely guesswork on my part, but I suspect nvidia fab allocation is at least an order of magnitude higher than amd and they not splitting theirs between cpu and gpu. No doubt nvidia are mostly making ai chips. But I bet they making 10x as many 5000 series as amd are making 9000 series. Factor that into the demand and I can see why Nvidia's prices seem to be trending downward and amds upward
 
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