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I have a discounted 7900 XT on its way and am desperate to know if it would be better to return it and wait for the 9070 XT. Three guys will offer me four opinions on that, unfortunately.
I mean, no one really knows at this point. The fact that they were apparently postponed it is not a good sign, but it might just be a change in pricing
No way to know until we get pricing info and independent benchmarks for the 9070 XT.
In theory, it would make sense to return it and wait for the 9070 XT, but we can't know for sure.
I have a 30-day return window, so maybe we have some benchmarks, independent or at least from AMD themselves by the end of February. The 20 GB on the old cards are nice and water coolers are readily available. The question is, how will the 9070 XT perform and will it be reasonably priced?
If AMD can launch these cards in reality, unlike Nvidia's mockery of a launch, they can make pretty deep headway into wiping out Nvidia's lead. Team green has been shooting themselves in the foot with consumers for years now, but competition hasn't been able to fill the gap. With these obscene prices now, lack of availability, and even seeming abandonment of gamers with a hard shift to AI, there's a large set of customers opening up to AMD and even Intel offerings now.
Own AMD stock since it was under $20/share so I am a huge fan of AMD buuuuuuut I just feel like I've read your comment verbatim now for every previous gen of AMD gpu.
Possibly, but I'm one of the newly convinced, my 3080 is the last product I'll get from them at this point I don't think I'm alone at this being the final straw. Especially with everything inflating in price so dramatically across the board in just the last few years, and Nvidia being at the forefront of that.
Nvidia isn't going to get another cent from me at this point. I already recently bought an Arc GPU for my streaming server instead because it was half the price and just as capable as other options for my use case. And it has been working perfectly. Previously I would have just bought an Nvidia GPU out of habit and familiarity.