I’m Torn…

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jfnirvana292

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I sold my 7800 xt to upgrade to a different card. I’m hearing the 9070 xt will release at the end of January or February. Im also hearing it will perform like a 9700 gre or a 4080.

If it’s like a 9700 gre id rather get a 9700 xt or xtx. But if its like a 4080, id rather wait.

Anyways, just wanted to rant. I’m sitting here with a desktop running my Radeon r7 360 gpu from 2015. lol. Not sure if I buy a cheap gaming card to just be able to play games for a couple months or if I wait a few weeks for a 9700 or a 9070.
 
Just going to have to tough it out a few weeks bud. I bet it's out by the end of the month.
 
KickAssCop said:
Trick is stated in the statement. :confused:
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I thought it said buy it now for 500 then profit off of it on January 30th somehow. I doubt anyone will be stupid enough to sell it for 500 even post 5090.
 
M76 said:
I thought it said buy it now for 500 then profit off of it on January 30th somehow. I doubt anyone will be stupid enough to sell it for 500 even post 5090.
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Ask the stupid people who sold 3090 for 500$ on 4090 release. They might have a 4090 right now...
 
undertaker2k8 said:
Never ever sell into a new NV/AMD release, if anything, prices tend to spike up right after as people frustrated at being unable to beat the bots drive up prices of older previous gen cards...may be this time will be different..not gonna bet on it.
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Plus without third party reviews you don’t know the performance.

And there are quite a bit of variance in numbers for the new amd cards. Both companies have a history of under delivering. I try to hold onto my cards now until things settle. Ironic since I don’t currently have a gaming pc lol
 
The only spec known about the 9700 and 9700 XT is both cards are 16GB, the benchmark on COD 6 was the 9700 and not the XT, the benchmark says faster than 7900 XTX.
 
Your going to have to wait if you want AMD, no info released yet.
 
Remember when everyone sold their 2080Ti for like $600 because Nvidia said the 3070 would match it, and then the 3070 launched and there was a crypto boom which massively inflated the prices of GPUs and made them almost impossible to acquire? That's why I always wait for the launch, myself. Don't want to be stuck without a card.
 
HockeyJon said:
Remember when everyone sold their 2080Ti for like $600 because Nvidia said the 3070 would match it, and then the 3070 launched and there was a crypto boom which massively inflated the prices of GPUs and made them almost impossible to acquire? That's why I always wait for the launch, myself. Don't want to be stuck without a card.
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That’s my point. AMD has done the same. For months the rumor was “it’s just a refresh. AMD will NOT be competing at the high end, and expect 7900xt performance with better efficiency and a slightly lower price” and that was said for months and months.
 
Dreamerbydesign said:
That’s my point. AMD has done the same. For months the rumor was “it’s just a refresh. AMD will NOT be competing at the high end, and expect 7900xt performance with better efficiency and a slightly lower price” and that was said for months and months.
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I mean not just that, but you need something to use in the meantime. In my case, I generally keep my cards long enough that the value in having a spare GPU is worth more to me than what I get on the resale market, but even then, I'd rather take a small hit on the resale price and ensure I can keep doing what I like to do on my PC than potentially getting stuck unless I want to get rinsed by scalpers or wait an indeterminant amount of time until inventory comes available. The extra $50 or $100 I might make by selling early just isn't worth it to me.
 
Ok guys. You convinced me. I ordered a 7900 xt to run for now. I’m guessing when it launches it’ll be hard to get and honestly this 7900 xt may be faster than the 9070 xt.
 
jfnirvana292 said:
Ok guys. You convinced me. I ordered a 7900 xt to run for now. I’m guessing when it launches it’ll be hard to get and honestly this 7900 xt may be faster than the 9070 xt.
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7900xt also will have more vram. This wasn’t really meant to be a major release by AMD, more of a efficiency refresh.
 
jfnirvana292 said:
So the 7900 xt was a good decision?
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I’d say so. We don’t know for certain but reports all along have been 16GB of vram on the refresh. Soon enough we will know.

Either way we know it’s not going to a generational leap from AMD. Now if you were buying a Nvidia card right now, id be more inclined to say you’d be getting much more for your money if what nvidia claims is true.
 
9070XT is big unknown at the moment. We don't really know much about it other than it having supposedly improvements in RT performance and having AI hardware along with fancy new ML based temporal upscaler and frame gen.
FSR4 from what we saw from "AMD Research Project" demo looks to be excellent alternative to DLSS2.

Is the card fast though? No one except AMD really knows...
If you sold your GPU to wait for new GPUs you might just as well wait some more for reviews and get what is the best for the money you want to spend at that time.
 
Put in the 7900 xt tonight. It’s a beast.

MW3. 4k. Pure raster. All settings on high.

7800xt: 110-120fps with lows around 100fps.
7900xt: 144fps, I’m maxing out my monitor. The lows are around 138fps.

I’m using up to 18gb vram as well. The 7800xt was maxed out in that regard at 16gb.

I guess I need a new monitor. 🤣
 
XoR_ said:
9070XT is big unknown at the moment. We don't really know much about it other than it having supposedly improvements in RT performance and having AI hardware along with fancy new ML based temporal upscaler and frame gen.
FSR4 from what we saw from "AMD Research Project" demo looks to be excellent alternative to DLSS2.

Is the card fast though? No one except AMD really knows...
If you sold your GPU to wait for new GPUs you might just as well wait some more for reviews and get what is the best for the money you want to spend at that time.
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I couldn’t wait any longer got a 7900xt. Worse case scenario if the 9070 is that much better I’ll sell it and get the 9070.
 
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