There‘s some people that are really disconnected from reality on Anandtech’s forums. They are saying better than 7900 XTX performance for $479.
Someday. This is not that day. Or year. Or decade.
There's going to be a performance floor like ~7900XTX level just to push the pixels on our 2K/4K screens.
As in that will be the minimum silicon scrap to launch. It sounds weird, right?
It will be when 8K becomes somewhat common and priced well under $1000 USD.
Are kidding me? 5070 series comes in February and 9070 series comes in March. Are you saying people are so OCD that they can’t wait a couple of weeks? Nice try dude.
These aren't high end cards by any means but the first interesting products in a new lineup.
This also bootstraps the trajectory for UDNA, whenever that happens.
Many of us don't want or need anything new and that's GREAT.
Many of us have been waiting on new drops for a while.
I passed up the 5700XT, 6800XT and couldn't manage the 7900XT.
Maybe the 9070XT is okay but then all this weird secrecy and aversion to launch details happens. Not cool.
Do you see how maybe this would be a little frustrating?
Now add creators and content brains that need these for work.
We already suffer weird problems with launches because of cryptobros, sneakerheads and other garbage infecting this space.
Then there's the Chinese chopping block that makes a buck off the pain by selling mutilated mining cards.
Then vendors get in on the action because "oh, normies are now buying THIS slop, time to capitalize and make it a
race to the bottom!"
The rest of us are left behind because a card that was originally the target for gaming gets co-opted and ruined by non-gamers.
I hope the entire marketing team gets fired for this.
