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expired Posted by eddie11228 • Dec 25, 2024
Dec 25, 2024 12:34 AM
PowerColor Hellhound AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24GB Graphics Card
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I think getting a new card at MSRP on launch will be very unlikely. A more reasonable expectation would be a few months after launch. Also, a lot of people seem to think AMD is going to price their new top card at $500 but it will perform at 7900xtx levels for raster but significantly outperform it in RTX.
This would be a 50% price to performance value increase, and AMD is simply not going to do it. AMD is in businesses to make as much profit as possible, not hookup gamers with good deals.
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$900- 5070ti
$1.3k- 5080
$2k- 5090
$900- 5070ti
$1.3k- 5080
$2k- 5090
That's pretty much how market pricing works, isn't it? The price is adjusted to whatever people are "willing" to pay. And for some reason, people have been indoctrinated and continue to willingly pay $800, $1000, $2000, or more for those upper tiers.
And yet, there will be so many blind apologists who "stand up" and defend nVidia like it's their dearest family member. No bro, they just want your cash.
That's pretty much how market pricing works, isn't it? The price is adjusted to whatever people are "willing" to pay. And for some reason, people have been indoctrinated and continue to willingly pay $800, $1000, $2000, or more for those upper tiers.
And yet, there will be so many blind apologists who "stand up" and defend nVidia like it's their dearest family member. No bro, they just want your cash.
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But of course if you can wait for now
I'm not a brand loyalist, but I consider the Geforce 4080 Super at $999 to be obscene and this is fundamentally AMD's entry at the same performance class, but with some key features stripped away compared to the Nvidia offering. Honestly for just a 20% "discount" I don't think the sacrifices in driver quality or higher end features to be worthwhile... AMD needs a reality check on how they price their cards, Nvidia doesn't really care about the gaming space as they can sell their silicon for higher margins in the pro/AI space.... I'd skip anything at this point and wait until the next gen cards from both Nvidia and AMD launch unless you absolutely need to buy something right now to see how the prices settle out. Yes, the possibility of tariffs are on the horizon but the Intel Battle Mage cards are also proving there is a lot of unmet interest in high value cards so pricing could be better this generation if the bigs decide to adjust course as the discrete GPU market overall continues to shrink.
Really hoping the new Radeon cards are priced to be more competitive instead of just coat tailing Nvidia on pricing, as Nvidia has done a great job making things arbitrarily more expensive in the past few generations of cards and shows no signs of slowing down on this strategy while AMD simply lets their GPU market share shrink by shipping fewer/higher margin cards and leaving Intel to start gobbling up the budget end of the market.
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While I am the proud owner of a full AMD system, I am also under no illusion that AMD is not my friend and will do everything in its power, ethical or not, to sell stuff--just like Intel, Nvidia, and others do.