I saw a Black Friday sale for a 5080 for around €1k, a decent OC model too. I have no interest in supporting NVIDIA or their fire hazards with the way they’ve been acting.
It’s an obscene price to pay for a GPU no matter how fast it is.
The 9070xt is a great card and much better value than the equivalent Nvidia offering, last time I checked the benchmarks. The Linux compatibility was the other major draw. My system is now 100% AMD and I’m preparing to trial Steam os and Bazzite.
NVIDIA made like 4 billion on gaming GPUs and like 58 billion on AI GPUs last quarter. I’m sure 80% of those gaming GPUs were used for AI as well. To them it’s likely irrelevant how they’re doing in the gaming market.
Right now on Amazon you can get an RTX 5070 for cheaper than an RX 9070 XT. The obvious choice is still the RTX 5070.
RTX 5070 ~$550 RX 9070 XT ~$630
Honestly this whole “AMD sells more!” “Well Nvidia sells more in THIS place!” is a fool’s errand to keep fighting over. Different locations in the world will have different pricing and thus it will shift which brand/card is better value for the money, and it will also depend on local tax laws and a ton of other variables. Brazil, for example, has AMD have somewhat lower prices overall thanks to AMD having an assembly plant here, something neither Nvidia and Intel have, and thus, their GPUs/CPUs are more expensive.
They’d probably sell even more of their naming scheme was less confusing.
How is it confusing?
Well minus the part where theres 8GB versions with no name differences…
I can’t wait for an RTX 9070 to replace my RX 9070 XT!
Just like how the Z890 chipset from Intel is not the same generation as the X870 chipset from AMD.
so that’s not just me being unable to keep a good hierarchy of their shit in my thought cabinet?
It’s just “confusing” because people are used to nvidia naming
I thought it was confusing because this is the 3rd changeup to their naming in recent years.
RX 580 to RX Vega 56 and 64 to RX 5700 to 9070. Yes it’s still the intuitive “bigger number better” and “first number is generation”, but I can see how people might be frustrated with it whereas nvidia has consistency.
Consistency? Nvidia does the exact same thing, so yeah I guess that’s consistent. That reliable numeric with the Nvidia GeForce Titan, Nvidia Titan, and Nvidia Titan RTX (yes those are all very different cards).
And don’t even get me started on the workstation Quadro card naming, with the Quadro RTX 4000, RTX A4000, RTX 4000 (Ada generation), and RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell.
Then you have the server cards. L4, L40, A100, H100 then rtx 6000 Blackwell (workstation and server editions are same name but different cards)
It goes on
I think they had to make that change because there was a Radeon 9700 back in the ATI days or something. I just wish they hadn’t done the RX thing. Because those charts where people compare GPU performance will have legends like:
RX-7600 RTX-5060 RX-9060XT TXT-6060RXT TVX-5040T RTX-4060
and you say "There’s no consistency with generation or manufacturer and I’m pretty sure one of those is the part number of a cylinder head for a Toyota Tacoma.
Well good thing the 9070 series is the series that is trying to adopt a more Nvidia-like naming scheme.
Yeah it has two names. But slightly less confusing
The 9070 had two names? You’re talking about the regular, the XT, and GRE?
I am not retaking the GRE to use that card.
I’m wooshing. Is that some kind of test where you live?
Yeah it’s the exam you take for grad school in the US for some colleges. I think it is the “graduate readiness exam” but it’s been a few years and I cant spare 10 seconds to look lol.
It’s really good. I can see the 9070 and the XT being GTX 970 and GTX 1060 levels of long term relevance in gaming PCs
Currently running a GTX1060 and it’s such a workhorse, my gosh.
Got my RX 9070 on the way :)
With the rise of PC handhelds and cutting edge graphics not seeming like a great selling point anymore, I think you’ll be golden for about a decade like that 1060. Maybe more because of the rise of PC handhelds and the Switch 2 and future Switch 3
This 1060 is being sold (cheap) as well so I hope it lives another 10 years in retirement 😄
Great card. I am surprised how well this card performs on Bazzite.
