Overclockers.co.uk has the Powercolor 9070xt hellhound for £629, https://www.overclockers.co.uk/powercolor-radeon-rx-9070-xt-hellhound-16gb-gddr6-pci-express-graphics-card-gra-pwc-04016.html
That is the lowest I've seen the 9070xt since launch. They also have the asrock steel legend for £650...
Why?
Daniel was just confirming what he said.
With AI gobbling silicon that could be gaming GPUs, why are the companies wasting it by pairing it with low amounts of VRAM?
Daniel new video is a good perspective.
The OCUK little flag is saying 100+ sold today for the pulse 9060 16GB and still in stock.
Seems the allocation of Asus at MSRP was 4 primes as they are now oos.
All of the 8GB models are still on the viewed flyer instead of "going fast", thank god.
"Which means you need no upscaling or RT and so you need no GPU, saving you $400. You are halfway there to a more capable GPU in a couple of years". /s but not really
I wouldn't upgrade from a 6700 XT to a 9060 XT either unless I was desperate to play a multiplayer game (PvP or otherwise).
RT performance on this class of cards is anemic from either vendor.
But that doesn't address the fact that you are beefing up all the other parts. At a certain point you have a bottleneck.
And of course the price difference for an extra 8GB capacity is £45-70 according to what AMD and Nvidia are charging.
It is a bottleneck on an otherwise capable GPU core.
If I would buy a 8GB 5060/9060 core I would know what I was into, but someone that isn't a forum frequenter or is browsing a store for a prebuilt likely won't know the difference.
It is funny how these GPU cores need all these computing...
I remember when the scam sell tactic was pairing an entry level 32 or 64 bit bus with double the vram of the midrange and the vram being ddr2 or ddr3 Vs proper gddr3
At overclockers.co.uk
The cheapest 9060xt 16GB are going for £314.99 and the cheapest 9060xt 8GB are going for £269.99.
For reference the cheapest 5060 ti 16 GB are going for £389.99, 5060 ti 8G for £319.99 and the 5060 is going for £269.99.
The website seems to be alive as opposed to the 9070...
The use case for 8gb GPU is you only play old games and your current GPU just died. So you want a dirty cheap GPU.
Unfortunately there is no new $150-250 card. (and arc cards are worse on older systems and probably old games as well).
Why are GPUs so expensive?
Because the consumers decided it was better to pay 20%+ more for the privilege of crippling their performance in exchange for some reflections.
A technology so crippling that requires AI machines and so a GPU became an AI machine - upscale technology, frame generation...
So AMD could have sneaked in and book more allocation away from Apple and NVIDIA?
You might as well say the fault is TSMC not predicting demand and not building enough Fabs...
Imagine the profit TSMC could make had double the wafers - AMD could go now and order a few extra million GPU wafers...
Fabs at full capacity = no more wafers to order.
Billion dollars fabs take time to be built.
And that is assuming ASML can produce enough tools for TSMC equip more fabs.
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