They need to bring a lot more value than the 5070, otherwise only Linux users and fanboys will buy these. A $50 discount is not enough, and I don't know if these rumored $70 will do it.
this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2025
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AMD is notorious for screwing their releases, they usually announce prices very close to NVIDIA, then reviewers give them subpar reviews and after a couple of months they start to lower the prices but it is usually too late and very few reviewers are updating their verdicts so people think they are still crap even though now the price is a lot more competitive making the whole package a bargain.
I don't know why they do it that way, and I can only imagine that this hurts their brand and sales.
I like the 16GB mem vs 12GB on the 5070 but it is a bit slower mem. Hard to say how much that will matter in the real world. I'm also dual booting Linux so AMD wins there.
For me it will come down to performance comparisons once they are released. Huge note: I don't really care much about ray tracing. It's cool tech, but not a big enough difference for me in the vast majority of games.
I used to think vram wasnt a big deal, but my 10G 3080 is already useless for some newer games, namely indiana jones
Not literally unplayable, but severely hamstrung, which is not OK for a high end card thats only 2 gen old (soon to be 3 gen, i guess)
Realistically people just won't be buying them because "AMD drivers bad" or "I've always had Nvidia"
I've had 2 cards in the past 10 years. One was AMD and it was a nightmare to find the one driver that didn't crash my PC at least twice a month. The other card was NVIDIA and never had a crash on any driver ever.
Maybe it's just bad luck but I won't buy AMD again after that crap and probably won't go green either. I'll keep waiting to see how Intel advances.
Fair enough. I'm not necessarily advocating for people to buy AMD cards, just that realistically the price is pretty irrelevant for a lot of people buying GPUs. They're going to read AMD and bow out.
I'm also very interested in how Intel shapes up, though.
It doesn't matter how much cheaper or more powerful it is if AMD cant secure OEM partners for being difficult to work with