I really wish AMD would just do it the regular way with an announcement. Price adjustments in the greedy GPU market have become such a pain lately.
The second most disappointing thing in GPU pricing, right after their initial MSRP is competition and demand response. Weak.
The way that most people buy video cards, I'm actually surprised that AMD hasn't thrown in the towel and that there is any competition at all.
You can say they did or they did not. In both cases you can justify your opinion.
Sold enough that is why the price dropped.
Did not sell enough that is why the price dropped.
Both answers make sense.
I'd focus rather on the part that the price dropped which means better value.
I agree with you but remember that "better" doesn't necessarily mean "good". This is a perfect case-in-point.
I think after RTX 4070 price of RX 7900 XT will decrease more.
We can hope.
Good move. This should move a few more units.
Yeah, but it's not enough to make a real difference. The card is still about $200 too expensive.
Hopefully the XTX, 4080 & 90 drop soon too : )
I honestly don't care about the 4080 and 4090 prices but I completely agree with you about the XTX. Pricing has no effect on nVidia sales, people who buy nVidia do so because value isn't high on their list of priorities (although some are just ignorant and aren't familiar with Radeon).
PC gamers are giving up gumtree is full of gaming monitors and it's always the same response prices are to high they are selling up. Sad to see.
Not really... I mean, it's sad that we're in this situation to begin with but I actually find the fact that nobody is buying them to be quite heartening. The fact that these greedy corporations aren't succeeding in their attempt to completely fleece consumers is a definite silver lining because it means that this situation won't continue. Ultimately, the power in any marketplace belongs to the consumers as long as they're willing to dangle that money-coloured carrot far enough away from the corporations to make them actually work for it.
The key to power in the marketplace is refusing to buy something unless it's a good value. Otherwise, you're just pissing your money away (which is what the corporations want).
How the turntables when Nvidia pricing forced AMD to drop price, instead of the other way around
Yeah but that's because nVidia customers don't care much about value. If they did, they wouldn't be buying nVidia to begin with.
DLSS is objectively superior quality and constantly being improved, FSR is lower quality and generally only receives an update every time AMD releases a new architecture.
Objectively, sure, I agree with you. The thing is that any gaming experience is completely
subjective. Comparing DLSS with FSR requires painstaking attention to details that nobody looks at when gaming (it's kinda like ray-tracing that way). It's a case of splitting hairs at this point.
If they both look "good" then nobody's going to lament having either of them. My gaming experience has nothing to do with the tiniest graphics details in a given scene because I don't look at them and I'd be willing to bet that I'm in the majority when it comes to that.
If I'm playing a good game and my rig gives me a smooth and responsive experience, I couldn't care less about what each individual leaf on a tree looks like. This means that to actually care about whether you're using DLSS or FSR would mean that you have a pretty bad case of OCD and probably wouldn't be able to enjoy gaming for one "flaw" or another anyway.
While I would agree that DLSS is objectively "better", I wouldn't agree that it's better in any meaningful way. Comparing the two is like the old Mustang vs. Camaro argument and every bit as futile.
The 4070 Ti
has very little problem with 4K currently, there is zero reason to expect it will in future. But this argument is irrelevant anyway, because both these GPUs will be obsolete long before 4K becomes the de facto resolution.
At the moment, you're correct. When it comes to your assumption about the future, that's nothing more than hopeful conjecture. You could be right but you could also be wrong. To me, my R9 Fury became a cautionary tale because even though its GPU is more potent than that of an RX 580, an RX 580 with 8GB can easily outperform it in games where 4GB is a hindrance, even at 1080p.
One day, my RX 6800 XT will be no longer usable for gaming but... it won't be because it doesn't have enough VRAM. The RTX 3080 will be a completely different story however.
I bought the Merc edition 7900xt at $900 about two months ago. It would have been nice to save $100 but GPU prices are so fickle you can never tell which way they are gonna go.
Well, at least you got a Merc for MSRP at the time. That's a bit of a bonus, eh? I guess XFX was feeling generous.
An even crazier comparison is the 7900xt versus the 4080. For 50% higher price on the 4080, you get a little over 10% gen ras and about the same power consumption.
Yeah but you can't look at it through rational eyes. Rationally, none of these cards are worth it but people still buy them. I personally wouldn't touch
any of these cards at their current prices. If I were in the market for a card, the RX 7900 XT would have to be no more than $600USD for me to even consider it. As for nVidia, they're
never a good value so I don't even bother looking at GeForce cards.
Awesome news, but I wonder where the actually affordable RDNA 3 cards are. AMD seems to be pulling an Nvidia by running the 7900 series and RDNA 2 in tandem.
I've been asking the same thing for over a month. AMD starts talking about RDNA4 and I'm like "Hey, you realise that it's almost Q2 of 2023 and you STILL only have 2 RDNA3 cards out!".
