Question are video card prices headed down yet?

[Golgatha]

- I hope I don't find an altruistic seller. I'm not looking for anyone's charity. I'm looking for someone who values their time like money and is happy to sell a product at an agreeable price for the guarantee of a sale quickly. Someone who wants to move their merch quick and accepts that there is a cost associated with selling quick vs the time it would take to get market or above market pricing for their product.

I'm always open to a negotiation and if someone came back at my "lowball" with something I'm willing to accept then that's fine by me.

Golden Rule applies here. Treat others like you'd want to be treated. For me that's give a fair price, don't waste my time, and don't try and pull one over on me; you'll get what you give with me in terms of dealing with me in PMs too. My 100% positive Heatware (316 starting in 2003), eBay (471 starting in 1999), and FB Marketplace (5.0 starting in 2019) feedbacks speak for themselves.

 

[jpiniero]

Sorny just announced they are raising the price of the PS5... given that even they are feeling it, even nVidia MSRP cards is like a price cut.

Golden Rule applies here.

He who has the Gold makes the rules?

 

[marees]

Sorny just announced they are raising the price of the PS5... given that even they are feeling it, even nVidia MSRP cards is like a price cut.



He who has the Gold makes the rules?

The 9060xt 16gb is down to $370. Pretty close to MSRP now

 

[DAPUNISHER]

For me that's give a fair price, don't waste my time,

Precisely.

and don't try and pull one over on me; you'll get what you give with me in terms of dealing with me in PMs too. My 100% positive Heatware (316 starting in 2003), eBay (471 starting in 1999), and FB Marketplace (5.0 starting in 2019) feedbacks speak for themselves.

Hear hear.

GPU value has remained high, I don't know why anyone thinks sellers are highly motivated for a quick sale? If you are low balling them, they have many months before depreciation will make the card worth that little.

 

[GaiaHunter]

In the UK the 9070 and 9070XT seem to be coming down as well with some model selling for under £500 and £600 respectively.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/powe...-pci-express-graphics-card-gra-pwc-04020.html

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/xfx-swift-radeon-rx-9070-xt-triple-fan-gaming-edition-16gb-gddr6-gra-xfx-05454.html

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus-radeon-rx-9070-xt-prime-oc-16gb-gddr6-pci-express-graphics-card-gra-asu-04155.html

Should make it a better match for the 5070 (£480) and 5070ti (£699) although you can get borderlands 4 bundled with these.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/palit-geforce-rtx-5070-ti-gamingpro-s-oc-16gb-gddr7-pci-express-graphics-ca-gra-pal-05411.html

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/gainward-geforce-rtx-5070-phoenix-12gb-gddr7-pci-express-graphics-card-gra-gnw-04587.html

 

[manly]

If you're local to a Micro Center, they have a 9070 XT for $600:

PowerColor AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Reaper Triple Fan 16GB GDDR6 $600 Microcenter - In-Store Only - 2025-10-06

9070 XT available at MSRP https://www.microcenter.com/produ...phics-card

slickdeals.net

 

[dlerious]

The Hellhound 9070XT is $630 at Amazon right now.

 

[Stg-Flame]

Am I dumb or has AMD not released anything close to competing with the 5090 yet? I don't keep up to date with hardware until it's coming time for upgrades/new builds, but seeing some of these prices, it looks like I can either spend almost $3,000 or less than $750 to get each brand's top of the line cards. I understand the 5090 has double the VRAM and higher core speeds, but hasn't AMD made anything competitive yet? I refuse to spend almost an entire paycheck on a single piece of hardware, so I won't be grabbing anything Nvidia has to offer for quite some time, but the RX 9070 XT feels like a downgrade to my overclocked 3090 Ti. Not to mention, the 3090 was released almost four years ago and according to benchmarking sites, it still outperforms AMD's newest card.

Is AMD trying to capitalize on being the economic value card or am I missing something here?

 

[igor_kavinski]

Is AMD trying to capitalize on being the economic value card or am I missing something here?

I'm assuming they can't be competitive within 600W of power so they simply gave up, rather than release some power hungry card that barely beats a 5080.

 

[gdansk]

Is AMD trying to capitalize on being the economic value card or am I missing something here?

Why would they make a big chip? They did it one (1) time in the entire RDNA history.
They made a chip that competes with the 5070 Ti and they have to sell it at a lower price.

Of course they're going for some economic value. How are they going to justify making a 700mm² GB202 fighter if they only get 5% of the sales?

 

[igor_kavinski]

How are they going to justify making a 700mm² GB202 fighter if they only get 5% of the sales?

Still one wonders if they could "cheaply" put two GPUs on one card like they used to do in the old days. Maybe once LPDDR6 is cheap enough since the VRAM will have to be duplicated.

 

[gdansk]

Still one wonders if they could "cheaply" put two GPUs on one card like they used to do in the old days.

No, that would be useless. They need multiple chips working as a single GPU which means it won't be cheap. They have done it for other markets but gamers don't buy Radeon* so AMD has no incentive to actually build that. They will never make money building that for gamers. So they will never make it for gamers.

* within a margin of 5% error this is true

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Still one wonders if they could "cheaply" put two GPUs on one card like they used to do in the old days. Maybe once LPDDR6 is cheap enough since the VRAM will have to be duplicated.

- That was kinda the goal of RDNA3, but the chips didn't clock high enough, AMD still couldn't get two GCDs to act as one, and any cost savings from higher yields got eaten up in additional packaging costs/complexities of GCD/MCD/Interposter etc.

Nvidia beat AMD's 530mm2 silicon with their 380mm2 silicon die.

Hell, basically the entire original RDNA4 lineup above N44 was scrapped and replaced by the N48 9070XT because the chiplet approach just wasn't a viable strategy for consumer grade parts at the prices people will pay for AMD grade hardware.

 

[igor_kavinski]

They could put two GPU chips back to back and water cool it with an AIO but yeah, not many people will buy that. Nvidia has ruined the market of gamers who used to buy unique hardware for the fun of it and turned them into pragmatic zombies.

 

[gdansk]

They could put two GPU chips back to back and water cool it with an AIO but yeah, not many people will buy that

What good is that gonna do? Multi GPU is dead (and ways always a meme).

 

[igor_kavinski]

What good is that gonna do? Multi GPU is dead (and ways always a meme).

It's natively supported by DX12 and Vulkan now, ironically after Crossfire and SLI died

 

[gdansk]

It's natively supported by DX12 and Vulkan now, ironically after Crossfire and SLI died

"Natively supported" for the developer to hand schedule their rendering across multiple graphics cards (no one does)

 

[RnR_au]

"Natively supported" for the developer to hand schedule their rendering across multiple graphics cards (no one does)

Yeah only enterprise cards does this and only because such workloads are usually embarrassingly easy to parallelise.

This is now available apparently - https://www.maxsun.com/products/intel-arc-pro-b60-dual-48g-turbo

Am I dumb or has AMD not released anything close to competing with the 5090 yet?

AMD does have a 32GB card out now if you want the vram. The AMD Radeon AI Pro R9700 may be available in your neck of the woods. It is in Australia.

 

[Stg-Flame]

AMD does have a 32GB card out now if you want the vram. The AMD Radeon AI Pro R9700 may be available in your neck of the woods. It is in Australia

Not my neck of the woods. And it was more along the lines of curiosity after looking at the market. It struck me as odd that AMD was pushing out decently-priced cards while Nvidia is still hoping people will take out a second mortgage just to upgrade their PC.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

but the RX 9070 XT feels like a downgrade to my overclocked 3090 Ti. Not to mention, the 3090 was released almost four years ago and according to benchmarking sites, it still outperforms AMD's newest card.

Bull💩. 9070XT is significantly faster than a 3090ti. Not a worthwhile upgrade though, I'd wait another generation and see what all 3 vendors have. DLSS transformer should be enough to keep a 3090tie in the mix until then.

 

[Stg-Flame]

Bull💩.

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti vs Radeon RX 9070 XT [videocardbenchmark.net] by PassMark Software

I never claimed to be a hardware guru and according to this benchmarking site, it underperforms compared to a 3090 Ti. I'm also not going to spend the money to test all of this myself so I use these sites to get a general idea about comparisons when it's coming time for me to start making upgrades.

 

[gdansk]

You would be wise to look at benchmarks that actually resemble a game. Or if you're feeling adventurous, maybe a bunch of actual games.

Spoiler

https://tpucdn.com/review/sapphire-radeon-rx-9070-xt-nitro/images/relative-performance-3840-2160.png

 

[dlerious]

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti vs Radeon RX 9070 XT [videocardbenchmark.net] by PassMark Software

I never claimed to be a hardware guru and according to this benchmarking site, it underperforms compared to a 3090 Ti. I'm also not going to spend the money to test all of this myself so I use these sites to get a general idea about comparisons when it's coming time for me to start making upgrades.

Here's Techpowerup with the 9070XT about 10% faster.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti Specs

NVIDIA GA102, 1860 MHz, 10752 Cores, 336 TMUs, 112 ROPs, 24576 MB GDDR6X, 1313 MHz, 384 bit

www.techpowerup.com

 

[igor_kavinski]

GeForce RTX 3090 Ti vs Radeon RX 9070 XT [videocardbenchmark.net] by PassMark Software

That's ok for CPUs but lame for GPUs.

Better to check something like Techpowerup.

This is 4K path tracing.



4K raytracing



And raster

 

[DAPUNISHER]

TPU relative performance chart is fake news for older vs new. Here we have a 3090 tested with the same CPU as the 9070XT -

Spoiler

Just an example of how geomean obfuscates performance in any particular title.