To be fair AMD hasn’t released a serious GPU in almost four years, Nvidia GPUs are just significantly overpriced in general, and Intel is just not competitive on the GPU market. Meanwhile CPU upgrades have been becoming less and less significant as gamers care more about GPU performance and AI bros care more about vram. Of course there’s always new gen 5 nvme ssds but few people care and ddr5 ram is just too expensive for what it offers. I think there needs to be a massive push for enthusiasts to build a new PC, like the adoption of LPCAMM2 on desktops, GPUs that offer significant improvements, or maybe some new hardware feature.
In terms of performance the 9070XT is between the 7800XT and the 7900XT. Keep in mind in terms of price used you can find the 7900XT the same price as a used 9070XT except it performs 7.9% better (source). Imo when a GPU is barely competitive with the last gen that’s just not a serious gen, while it is 10% faster than the 7800XT launch price is also $100 more expensive.
To clarify I don’t think the 9070 is a bad card and on its own it stands up as having a pretty good price to performance especially for people who want to buy new, the problem is that the entire 9000 series just doesn’t provide a high end option and doesn’t hold up particularly well against used options (especially the 6900XT which has similar performance but lower used price).
To be fair AMD hasn’t released a serious GPU in almost four years, Nvidia GPUs are just significantly overpriced in general, and Intel is just not competitive on the GPU market. Meanwhile CPU upgrades have been becoming less and less significant as gamers care more about GPU performance and AI bros care more about vram. Of course there’s always new gen 5 nvme ssds but few people care and ddr5 ram is just too expensive for what it offers. I think there needs to be a massive push for enthusiasts to build a new PC, like the adoption of LPCAMM2 on desktops, GPUs that offer significant improvements, or maybe some new hardware feature.
i would call the 9070xt a serious card
In terms of performance the 9070XT is between the 7800XT and the 7900XT. Keep in mind in terms of price used you can find the 7900XT the same price as a used 9070XT except it performs 7.9% better (source). Imo when a GPU is barely competitive with the last gen that’s just not a serious gen, while it is 10% faster than the 7800XT launch price is also $100 more expensive.
To clarify I don’t think the 9070 is a bad card and on its own it stands up as having a pretty good price to performance especially for people who want to buy new, the problem is that the entire 9000 series just doesn’t provide a high end option and doesn’t hold up particularly well against used options (especially the 6900XT which has similar performance but lower used price).