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[H] Stock Alerts, Tips & Tears 2025

Going to be fun watching the AiB justification for their mark ups on 5070 and slower cards as if they really need exotic cooling solutions
 
My MN MC got another drop - tons of MSRP XTs. This one fit my case.

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Out goes the ASUS RTX 5080 Prime OC. Big cost savings for about 80%+ performance.

Unfortunately, no stock benches for the RTX 5080 (this was +205 clock, +4004 mem), but this thing is SPICY for $600! No OC on the 9070 XT.
https://www.3dmark.com/compare/spy/53859681/spy/53452719

$1430 - $650 = $780.00 cheaper! Nuts. (Tax included)
 
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for us canuckistanis, mem-ex still has some of the more pricey ones left, in store only though.
 
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My MN MC got another drop - tons of MSRP XTs. This one fit my case.

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Out goes the ASUS RTX 5080 Prime OC. Big cost savings for about 80%+ performance.

Unfortunately, no stock benches for the RTX 5080 (this was +205 clock, +4004 mem), but this thing is SPICY for $600! No OC on the 9070 XT.
https://www.3dmark.com/compare/spy/53859681/spy/53452719

$1430 - $650 = $780.00 cheaper! Nuts. (Tax included)
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I think you are optimistic on that performance. The benchmarks I saw from several sites put the 9070XT anywhere from 6-80% slower than the 5070TI and the 5070TI is like 13% slower than the 5080. Plus no frame gen on AMD and it actually does work pretty well for 50x0 cards. I was playing with CyberPunk 2077 and frame gen and on my 5070TI and it worked surprisingly well. My 3080 would max out at like 35-40FPS at medium high settings. With frame gen my 5070TI was pegged at 120Hz with similar and better settings with frame gen. AMD is not gonna be close to that with no frame gen. I wasn’t sure what to expect not having tried it before, but in all cases of switching back and forth between on and off. I liked frame gen better on and didn’t feel extra lag, just saw smoother frame rate.

Worst case example:
80% slower than 5070ti (and that’s before frame gen options on Nvidia)
https://gamersnexus.net/gpus/incred...enchmarks-vs-9070-xt-rtx-5070#9070-benchmarks
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However…….I get the very valid point on savings. A $1400 5080 is simply too much. A $1000 MSRP 5080 is worthwhile.
 
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I think you are optimistic on that performance. The benchmarks I saw from several sites put the 9070XT anywhere from 6-80% slower than the 5070TI and the 5070TI is like 13% slower than the 5080. Plus no frame gen on AMD and it actually does work pretty well for 50x0 cards. I was playing with CyberPunk 2077 and frame gen and on my 5070TI and it worked surprisingly well. My 3080 would max out at like 35-40FPS at medium high settings. With frame gen my 5070TI was pegged at 120Hz with similar and better settings with frame gen. AMD is not gonna be close to that with no frame gen. I wasn’t sure what to expect not having tried it before, but in all cases of switching back and forth between on and off. I liked frame gen better on and didn’t feel extra lag, just saw smoother frame rate.

Worst case example:
80% slower than 5070ti (and that’s before frame gen options on Nvidia)
https://gamersnexus.net/gpus/incred...enchmarks-vs-9070-xt-rtx-5070#9070-benchmarks
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However…….I get the very valid point on savings. A $1400 5080 is simply too much. A $1000 MSRP 5080 is worthwhile.
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I mean I went from 5080 to 9070 XT and the gameplay is basically the same. Sure there are compromises and yes the statistics are lower. 80% performance is real - and playing with OC it gets even closer. The 9070 XT is the best card this gen overall. I still have a 5080 and I have a 5090 coming Wednesday.

I understand preferring NVIDIA and all that and there’s nothing wrong with a 5070 Ti.

The 5080 that I returned was $1320 and most are there or higher now. Only the PNY and FE remain at $999.
 
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sk3tch said:
My MN MC got another drop - tons of MSRP XTs. This one fit my case.

View attachment 715257View attachment 715267View attachment 715268

Out goes the ASUS RTX 5080 Prime OC. Big cost savings for about 80%+ performance.

Unfortunately, no stock benches for the RTX 5080 (this was +205 clock, +4004 mem), but this thing is SPICY for $600! No OC on the 9070 XT.
https://www.3dmark.com/compare/spy/53859681/spy/53452719

$1430 - $650 = $780.00 cheaper! Nuts. (Tax included)
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What are the the hotspot, VRAM temps, and noise / RPM on your Reaper? I read the core temp is great.
Just bought one from Newegg today. Might use it temporarily until I can find a $1k 5080.
 
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What are the the hotspot, VRAM temps, and noise / RPM on your Reaper? I read the core temp is great.
Just bought one from Newegg today. Might use it temporarily until I can find a $1k 5080.
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Nice! I’ll have to check - a lot of my suite of tools (HWInfo) don’t support it fully, yet.

I doubt you’ll find a 5080 for $1k so I’d settle in with the 9070 XT - better value anyway!
 
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I bought a reference 7900xtx direct from AMD like almost 2 years ago and feel like I'm missing nothing by skipping this shit show.

Oh, and by the way, it was $999.
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You’re not! The only thing to consider is the used market - I haven’t looked at the 7900 XTX but since my 7900 XT sold for $760 used I can only assume you can get more for XTX (although this was before the 9070 XT launch).

You can basically sell your card and get a newer card that’s better in a lot of ways for a couple hundred less $. Worth looking into…

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What are the the hotspot, VRAM temps, and noise / RPM on your Reaper? I read the core temp is great.
Just bought one from Newegg today. Might use it temporarily until I can find a $1k 5080.
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5 min of Furmark. HWiNFO says Red Devil but I can assure you that it is a Reaper. :)
 
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Not sure if everyone receives it or not but Newegg emailed me this past weekend saying 9070 xt's will be in stock at 10am pst today. I had ordered one and then like 30 mins later received cancellation notice that it was out of stock. Maybe they send this to those this happened to or something.
 
Keep an eye on newegg, they dropped gigabyte cards that went instantly at 10am pst and 30 mins later dropped some sapphire pulse cards. Will have to wait and see if they all get canceled or not.
 
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Keep an eye on newegg, they dropped gigabyte cards that went instantly at 10am pst and 30 mins later dropped some sapphire pulse cards. Will have to wait and see if they all get canceled or not.
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I watched the 9070XTs for a while and the Gigabyte cards seemed to hang around showing in stock for almost a half hour for me.

Did anyone here buy a 9070 XT today and get their order canceled? Gamers Nexus got all 4 cards they bought on Thursday canceled. I wonder what the overall percentage of Newegg cancelations was on Thursday.
 
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I watched the 9070XTs for a while and the Gigabyte cards seemed to hang around showing in stock for almost a half hour for me.

Did anyone here buy a 9070 XT today and get their order canceled? Gamers Nexus got all 4 cards they bought on Thursday canceled. I wonder what the overall percentage of Newegg cancelations was on Thursday.
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I managed to get a sapphire pulse yesterday during the "restock". Shipped that afternoon. Free mouse pad with it. Supposedly there was an asrock card too. I just kept checking every couple minutes on the app, saw them pop in, and got lucky. The gigabyte cards were gone within minutes. Showed in stock, try and buy, get out of stock error.
 
Nvidia is sending out a huge amount of invites to purchase a 5090 directly from the Nvidia store. Keep an eye out!
 
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Nvidia is sending out a huge amount of invites to purchase a 5090 directly from the Nvidia store. Keep an eye out!
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Just got home from running errands; received the email 24 minutes before logging in and joining the queue. Had 288 people ahead of me with an estimate of 24 minutes. Now down to 210 people at 15 minutes...keeping my fingers crossed!
 
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Just got home from running errands; received the email 24 minutes before logging in and joining the queue. Had 288 people ahead of me with an estimate of 24 minutes. Now down to 210 people at 15 minutes...keeping my fingers crossed!
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I'm attempting to check out but the site is struggling.
 
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Just got home from running errands; received the email 24 minutes before logging in and joining the queue. Had 288 people ahead of me with an estimate of 24 minutes. Now down to 210 people at 15 minutes...keeping my fingers crossed!
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I had about 200 people in front of me and I was able to make it through the queue and finish the purchase. Good luck!
 
I have two nvidia accounts, neither got an invite. Have purchased GPUs directly from Nvidia in the past.
 
I sold my 4090 for $1900 and just got a 5090 fe invite. Was worth it to me.

Now buying something like an 5090 astral, heavens no.
 
They probably get a terrible responses rate that slow down the process a lot (many would have clicked on the 5080 and 5090, even if they have no real intention for either by the time they receive the invite), they are probably trying to avoid scalper (geforce app users) and at the same time rise that response rate, 4090 owner that took time to register, probably an excellent response rate versus the average, as they can sales the 4090 to easily justify getting the 5090 and are a known type of people that actually buy those.
 
4090 owner, waiting on my invite.

Edit: 5090 is +60-80% more PPD, while only consuming an additional 100w.
 
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I believe I signed up quite some time ago with Nvidia - no invite yet. No 4090 though, but a 3090 - something they ought to be able to see via Nvidia driver update utility account with the same email - which demonstrates the willingness to buy an xx90 device and very likely to want to upgrade given the performance uplift between them. Guess I'll wait and hope there will be more both direct from NV and opportunities at other vendors.
 
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I believe I signed up quite some time ago with Nvidia - no invite yet. No 4090 though, but a 3090 - something they ought to be able to see via Nvidia driver update utility account with the same email - which demonstrates the willingness to buy an xx90 device and very likely to want to upgrade given the performance uplift between them. Guess I'll wait and hope there will be more both direct from NV and opportunities at other vendors.
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I worry it's because I don't run Nvidia Experience they can't tell I have a 4090, so no upgrade for me....
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That people that did get an invite, are you all running Nvidia Experience?
 
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