They keep doing it. But I was wondering if they are doing it because they are getting many.... fully working chips by TSMC, so making more 9070 cards with probably artificially cut down chips, chips that are good to be used as fully working GPUs for the 9070XT model, wasn't making much sense to them. Of course in that case they could price the 9070XT at $550, but then we would be asking for a cheaper model at $450-$500.
In any case this is AMD. If the price doesn't skyrocket and it probably would, just not as much as Nvidia cards, we might start seeing in a month of two both 9070s and 9070XTs getting small discounts.
I'm waiting on someone trying to flash the bios, no lie. I see *someone* is still hiding them.
There's also this small fact that if you volt-mod it or fool the PL since it has the same bw and 9070xt is bw-limited by about 17.5% or so (at stock)...it all makes sense.
Getting all the shaders of 9070 vanilla to clock high would actually match up really well with the ram. I feel like they are expecting people to do this somehow. How, I don't know...yet.
Just a theory; A GPU THEORY.
Not by AMD, but by the tech circles and the fanbase. Expectations were certainly running high. People were calling this the Nvidia killer, and even the review is titled "beating NVIDIA"... except that on practice, looks like it is unable to conclusively beat 2022's RTX 4080, averaging -5% in raster and -20% in RT as per this very review (of what is arguably the most advanced model of 9070 XT we'll receive). These -5% seem to be after the games which are outliers, there were great gains in Cyberpunk 2077 with RT off, and the historically AMD friendly games seem to continue that trend (such as Call of Duty).
I do think it's a solid product with a far larger list of things to like than to dislike, but anyone calling this an Nvidia killer definitely hit their head somewhere. If the market situation wasn't so crazy, with the 50 series launch being completely botched, without any stock whatsoever, preorders from January going unfulfilled, 10+ week lead times, scalped prices on any few units that do show up for sale, and lukewarm progress by the competition (5090 aside, the 50 series barely even moves the needle in the overall level of performance made available stackwide), and if Navi 31 itself scaled better than it does, this card wouldn't look even half as good as it does.
Show me this in W1zard's review. Not averages, because that's why people think 5070 is a 4k card, and that makes me sad. Because, I dunno...It's wrong? Guy, look at the literal minimums; what counts.
Where is this true? BMW is literally a RT game, limited by RT, and they are almost identical.
This is a straight up nVIDIA killer. Show me how it is not, and I will show you how you are wrong. En garde. It literally the same power efficiency (granted overclocked vs stock) as a 5070, better than stock 5080.
It beats stock 5080 is many circumstances, and the OC can be seen as an avg; at-worst ties 5070ti in most others; neither of those cards will give you better resolution experience, and they cost a metric ton more.
You're right, if it wasn't for the fact LITERALLY EVERYTHING NVIDIA DOES ON PURPOSE DIDN'T HAPPEN, nvidia would look okay. That is what you're saying. Read what you wrote, it's apologist AF.
