What's the precedent for discontinuing older models of GPU?

[Birdseed007]

As a VR flight simmer my RX6800XT does struggle a bit sometimes. I have been looking at the RX7900XTX for ages and thinking that would be my next move.

Money is a bit tight after Xmas though so I would really prefer to wait 3 months or so before buying, although I might be able to buy one at a push just now.

Does anybody know what is the AMD precedent for continuing/discontinuing graphics card manufacture after they launch a new range? Given the 9070 won't be quite as powerful as the 7900XTX and certainly have less memory do you think AMD will continue manufacturing the 7900XTX as their flagship even after the 9070 launches??? If I thought I could wait a bit and still get one then I wouldn't rush to buy one. If on the other hand they're likely to become unobtainable new then perhaps I need to just buy one now.

Grateful for any advice. None of the 9070's appeal because of limited memory and slower anyway. I'm not an Nvidia fan due to their unscrupulus market manipulation but frankly the 4080/5080 are overpriced and impossible to get anyhow.

Many thanks,

Birdseed

 

[harmattan]

AMD has very likely already stopped manufacturing 7900 chips, and going forward 9070/xt will be their only top-end cards. I'd buy one now if you can find one in stock, or look at the used market. Unfortunately, prices are inflated at present: where you could find them new a month ago for around £700, you'll be lucky to get one used for £800.

As a side note, 7900 XTX is a superb card. I went back and forth between a 7900 XTX, 4080 and 4090 over the past two years and the 7900 XTX was the best high-end option considering price/performance.

 

[kute]

I'd never fanboy one side or the other, but yesterday I tried out the new DLSS on ACC in VR, and it was actually stupidly improved - not perfect, but ACC has gone from ******* ugly, to playable even on ultra performance. It always was in 2D on quality, but in VR, any DLSS version made things blurry as ****. The new versions don't.

I hate that videocard companies are seemingly software companies now, but I wouldn't want to lose access to DLSS. Even though the game I play 90% of the time (iracing) doesn't even have it.

 

[heatonpkmassive]

but I wouldn't want to lose access to DLSS.

DLSS was just okay until recently. The new transformer DLSS is actually fantastic and well worth having.