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The lesser of two evils I guess?. Curious to see how bad it gets, especially as tariffs go into play.

I think the schedule goes: - 5070 reviews tomorrow (March 4th) - 5070 launch and 9070 / 9070 XT reviews on Wednesday (March 5th) - 9070 / 9070 XT launch on Thursday (March 6th)

Depends if the 9070 XT actually sells at MSRP. If AIBs and demand drive price up, you may see 9070 sit at $550. Keep in mind Nvidia 5070 is at the same price with only 12GB vram. Unless Nvidia responds by lowering prices and demand is satisfied, we may not see AMD react. Time will tell. It’s hard to gauge how much interest there is with all this artificial scarcity from Nvidia. Actual revenue dropping from these companies in gaming segments make me believe there is less demand but who knows if that’s accurate. Could just simply be Nvidia / AMD redirecting inventory and wafers to different markets (data centres).

Thread updated with pricing info. I'll add additional sources and deep dives as they become available Pricing is fairly promising. Not as low as they needed but much better than the -$50 approach.

I would have gone to a 5080 if it had ~4090 level performance, 24Gb of VRAM, better RT, at less than 350W. A side grade with access to latest “software features” just to stay up to date. 90 series is out of my price range. All other Blackwell fell flat. I’ll likely wait until the next gen (UDNA / Rubin) and see where they go with 3nm. Also not much motivating me to upgrade. XTX is worst case only doing 40fps at 4K in the most demanding titles.

I think most kids these days are asking for hardware to play GTA Online, PUBG, Minecraft etc. All of which run fine on the 6600 XTs and 3060s. Maybe Black Myth Wukong is that title since it seriously favours Nvidia and was extremely popular but I get what you’re throwing down. I’d love to say I always favoured the underdog but the truth is I don’t care. I just want hardware with what I deem is good value for my time and money. AMD was that provider when I last upgraded (7900 XTX) but it still wasn’t an ideal purchase. It just had the least amount of caveats I was willing to accept. Expensive, disappointing RT but great performance, healthy VRAM, and a normal form factor. The launch was also an issue, with faulty vapour chambers and poor launch pricing. I’d gladly go back to Nvidia if they competed with Blackwell but instead they chose to stay status quo. Here’s hoping AMD will make the market a bit more competitive but I ain’t holding my breath. I believe they will continue to price fix and only an obtainable $550 or less 9070 XT would really change my mind. My bet is $550 9070 and $650 9070 XT “MSRP” but you’ll have a hard time finding cards at those prices for the first few months.

9070 XT starting @ $599 USD 9070 starting @ $549 USD Both cards will be available for purchase on March 6th, 2025 https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-introduces-599-radeon-rx-9070-xt-and-549-rx-9070-rdna4-gpus AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series Technical Deep Dive WWW.TECHPOWERUP.COM AMD's next-generation of GPUs is launching very soon. We have all the details on the architecture and the new models. Our preview article...

We're gonna crash this site with all these threads about Nvidia's launch failures Rushing launch to advertise unobtainable MSRPs before tariffs False advertising "5070 > 4090 performance @ $550" Absolutely pitiful supply Crazy scalping Poor performance vs. past gen (except 5090...) Failing / melting connectors Missing specs (ROPs disabled), basically customers receiving "D" versions and now cards burning.... I sincerely hope the next press conference people start booing and AMD capitalize with RDNA 4 to send the message so the Bloomberg's of the world start to take notice. They're treating their core audience like garbage.

5-10 seems reasonable in high end / data centre market. IBM believes approx. 7 years if I recall correctly from their latest demonstrations. I’m not sure how long it will take for general consumers to get their hands on them, if ever? It’s seems near impossible, without a major breakthrough to find a solution that scales affordably for your average consumer. Since these chips need to run near or at absolute 0 (-273C) to maintain their quantum state.

Note* This is a Microsoft production (PR) about their own progress on quantum computing hardware. Fascinating topic, especially as we’re hitting a brick wall with manufacturing nodes for traditional binary computing. Full source below, including links to peer reviewed studies. Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip WWW.THEVERGE.COM Researchers have spent 17 years working on this milestone.

There aren't a ton of unique games that I play that use PhsyX, and it effectively has been phased out in modern game development. I see a lot of titles there that support PhsyX but I don't think they actually use it. At least, there aren't any toggles within those games. Like Alan Wake II or Black Myth: Wukong. However, I do love a couple games that do use PhsyX well. Borderlands 2 is one of them. Another one is Killing Floor 2. It has the gibs system where you see organs and goop covered over the environment. Im not sure if Killing Floor 3 (due next month) will use it. Either way, a really crappy situation considering the support is disappearing. Hope this spurs some excitement to maintain it.

AMD debunks claims of 32GB Radeon RX 9070 XT variant WWW.TECHSPOT.COM There was excitement following rumors this week claiming AMD would be launching a high-end RDNA 4 GPU sometime in the first half of... If you want to get into the weeds of it, they technically did not rule out any 9000 series GPU with 32 GB of VRAM. That said, they've already outlined that they wont compete at high end. Further, this latest statement makes it clear their highest end gaming SKU on RDNA4 (that we know of today) won't have 32GB of VRAM. I'd be shocked if a lower end SKU based on RDNA 4 has more VRAM. I think it's more plausible that they add 32 GB of VRAM on a good bin die, that will be sold as a Radeon PRO. Like this https://www.amd.com/en/products/graphics/workstations/radeon-pro/w7800.html

A nice little watch that the folding community may enjoy.

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-to-unveil-radeon-rx-9070-series-on-february-28 and there we go... Ill get a new thread up for Feb 28 with all the PR info.

Is CD Keys legit? Asking for a friend... XD