DukenukemX
Supreme [H]ardness
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Knowing AMD, they'll have something between RTX 3070 and 3080 but won't be priced competitively. I expect AMD to price Big Navi at $600 - $700 and that won't be enough to justify going with their hardware. AMD has always had a history of pricing it just $20-$50 cheaper than Nvidia while only being faster in a select few games. Gotta be cheaper and much more faster if AMD plans to put a dent in the GPU market. Also lets not forget that Intel is coming out with their own GPUs next year.AMD will likely catch 3080, but they will pretty much have to double 5700Xt to do that, and then aren't even going to be able to price it much beyond 5700XT pricing if they hope to make a splash.
I agree, these GPU's are still expensive. $100 cheaper than the rumors but that's still expensive. The GTX 970 was $330 at launch, so how did a 3070 end up at $500? Hopefully AMD will stop being idiots and price Big Navi competitively. Everyone remember when the 5700's were announced and Nvidia showed them by dropping prices before they were released? That made AMD look real stupid. Eventually the 5700's dropped so much in price that they fell bellow $300, which is $50 cheaper than the MSRP price drop. Now the 5700 XT's are $350. Since 2013 AMD can't price their products properly.Still pricey. The 3070 has an MSRP of $500, which is a lot for a **70. Realistically it will be $550 and it still only has 8GB. I'm not sure if I'd spend that kind of money for 8GB to keep for 2+ years, especially if I upgrade to an ultra wide monitor. Last thing I want is to run out of VRAM in upcoming games.