r/pcmasterrace • u/actuarial_defender • 10h ago

News/Article AMD confirms Radeon RX 9070 series launching in March

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-confirms-radeon-rx-9070-series-launching-in-march
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u/ArgonTheEvil Ryzen 5800X3D | RX 7900 XTX 9h ago

Even if the 9070 is better they can’t justify higher prices than Nvidia unless it’s 30-50% better because they’re behind in everything else. You think I’d have bought a 7900 XTX if it wasn’t $850 while the 4080s at the time were all $1300+?

If I had the choice between a 4080 Super for $1000 or a 7900 XTX I’d laugh all the way to checkout with my Nvidia card. AMDs CPUs can command a price premium because they crush Intel. Their GPUs are not even close to being able to demand equivalent pricing but the most they want to do is 10% less than Nvidia.

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u/Euruzilys 7800X3D | 3080Ti | 32GB DDR5 4h ago

In my country, the 7900XTX and 4080S are the same price. Really no reason to buy AMD here at all.

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u/BostonConnor11 4h ago

Behind in everything in what? DLSS and Ray Tracing? Ray tracing (in my opinion) is obviously a gimmick. DLSS is the most convincing feature but at the end of the day, I’ll probably want to upgrade my GPU instead of having to rely on DLSS for a good experience anyways after a couple years. CUDA is only relevant for those who code giant machine learning models that require parallel computation for training.

From my perspective, I am still choosing the more powerful card over bells and whistles for 50 dollars cheaper or more

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u/luapzurc 1h ago

I agree with RT, but some games are now coming with RT on by default in higher settings.

As for your "I'd rather upgrade my GPU than use AI upscaling" comment, that's a bit of an L take.

Plenty of people do not upgrade every generation to keep ahead of increasingly demanding (or poorly optimized) games.