The sad part is that in Europe on Amazon the Gigabyte store sells RX 9070 XT for 1150€. That's absolutely grotesque. Mind you this card is supposed to be 550$ before tax, after tax it shouldn't be more expensive than 650€ and Gigabyte is charging 80% on top of that. Who needs scalpers with businesses like that.
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Hard to justify blowing a couple grand on a card when 5 years of GeForce Now costs well under half that amount. I normally dislike subscriptions but this one is solid IMO
That's how subscription services get you. Why buy DVDs when you can stream all day long on Netflix? Suddenly, DVDs are no longer for sale and streaming services take down content for one reason or another. Then you have no other legal alternative but to pay whatever they ask, be shown whatever they want and continue to own none of it.
At least you can still use your older hardware, and at least Radeon cards as old as GCN1 are still actively supported outside of Windows.
Also, old games still exist and will continue to exist in some form into the foreseeable future, legitimately or not.
Like, if you're not into multiplayer games, the Mesa drivers last time I thought still work well, great even, on Polaris and Vega cards as well as even legacy GCN on the Linux side of things, you can still use your RX 580 or 590 with full support going that route, for example.
Ya I get the hype and the desire to get these cards but do you really NEED it? This is like waiting in line for days to buy the newest iPhone.
You can play all the latest games on the highest setting with the previous generation cards, and they are in stock too.
At this point buying the card isn’t about need. It’s just purely status symbol and people in this article are complaining like spoiled children that they can’t get exactly what they want the SECOND the card hits the market. Jfc.
I upgraded to an open box 7900 XT from my Vega 56. I tried getting a 9070 XT and was still in my return window, but damn am I glad I got the discounted previous gen card.
I definitely could not play all the latest games on the highest setting with the card I'd been rocking since 2017.
I don’t feel like the 4000 series ever really got to easily available at MSRP prices.
But on top of that I know a lot of folks skipped the last couple generations because the scalping was outrageous.
I hate it though. They’re not wrong that the companies selling or making GPUs could easily solve the problem, but they just don’t care.
Yea I'm just saving up for an oled monitor at this point. My 5800X3D + 3080 12GB combo can still pretty much play everything above 60 fps with optimized settings on 1440p.
I also got a handheld for local streaming so I can push the graphics settings down more and still get a good IQ due to smaller size.
Increased demand for new cars raises the price of used cars
Everyone deserves more choices. We need European gpus now!
I just got the sole rx7900xtx I could find in the state last week.
Glad I didn't wait for this :/
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