expiredtDames | Staff posted Jan 28, 2025 05:54 PM
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expiredtDames | Staff posted Jan 28, 2025 05:54 PM
SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24GB GDDR6 Graphics Card $830 + Free Shipping
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The GPU market needs more competition and anyone and everyone purchasing Intel cards right now will make that happen. My hope is that Intel can eventually scale their performance up to compete in the mid to high range and will keep prices low to gain market share. People like you are potentially helping to create a more healthy competitive gpu market and I genuinely thank you!
My hope is that Intel continues to scale up their iGPUs, which are quite capable and sold in the hundreds of millions, and delivers an answer to AMD's "mega APUs" like Strix Halo (e.g. the Ryzen AI Max 395+). These could replace low/mid range GPUs in the long run and eliminate VRAM concerns by using large memory pools.
Things have gotten WAY outta hand...
maybe I'm exaggerating but are you planning on spending double for 15% more performance?
unless you're talking about the next generation of AMD cards. we have heard nothing about it except for the leaks, which is not promising at all.
I think the latest leaks suggest higher MSRP and less performance
Things have gotten WAY outta hand...
I've been waiting for an excellent APU though - Zen4-RDNA2 was the first truly decent product years back, and this RDNA3.5 stuff looks like an excellent replacement for larger portables, or small PCs.
25 years ago I would upgrade my $200 videocards every 8-16 months for 50-100% gains each time. From 2000-2005 I probably spent a bit over $1k on videocards, which would be over $2000 adjusted for inflation, and the final card was probably 800% the performance level of the one 5-years prior. Now if one buys a single card every 5-years, you get double the previous card's performance...for $800-1000.
Even two Voodoo2 12MB cards for SLI would set you back $600 in 1998. The GeForce2 Ultra was a whopping $500 on release. Most people never bought the most expensive option. The 4090 was basically last gen's Titan, and Titans have always been a step above the GeForces - the first model was $1,000, and a lot of people purchased Titans for gaming.
I think 5-year upgrades are about correct now, for a doubling of GPU performance, for anything that is not "Titan" level of performance and price.
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Be closer to 750 when the 5070ti comes out for $750. This does have more vram though
This card will age better than the 4080 Super due to it having a lot more Vram. 4080 Super with 16gb is already only "good enough" at 1440p or 4k high refresh rate. In 3 years it will be not enough.
Buy whichever is cheaper.
Things have gotten WAY outta hand...
My hope is that Intel continues to scale up their iGPUs, which are quite capable and sold in the hundreds of millions, and delivers an answer to AMD's "mega APUs" like Strix Halo (e.g. the Ryzen AI Max 395+). These could replace low/mid range GPUs in the long run and eliminate VRAM concerns by using large memory pools.
I finally returned a Hellhound 7900xtx to Amazon that I got on a super pre-Black Friday deal (extended returns). I don't play games, but do video Ai upscaling and, unfortunately, the software I employ (Topaz) doesn't appreciate AMD cards, but it does like Nvidia with as much VRAM as possible. I currently use an AMD 7800xt with 16GB, so 24GB would have been a jump, but after ordering, I spent a lot of time reading actual user benchmarks and determined that an Nvidia RTX 3090 would clean the 7900xtx's proverbial clock.
I can find all kinds of used 3090 cards for about $650.
Thanks, as always for this forum
I'd like to see them employ multiple strategies simultaneously. They could ramp up production on current gen cards, improve the iGPUs segment as you suggest, and develop/release some high end cards, too. If they do even as decent a job as they have with their ARC cards and don't price the stuff to the moon I know a lot of people would be happy.
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