Concerning?

[D. Flame]

Should we be concerned that the new AMD cards are supposedly releasing next month, but we have no real official info on them yet?

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

I see you don't remember the AMD Vega debacle and the only reason why GTX 1080Ti was redesigned as a Titan in which to destroy the AMD Vega (yet Vega was not even close to it's own earmarked, pre-release performance specs).

Wake me up when the actual hardware is tested without bias, please and thank you.

[_I_]

no, just wait for honest reviewers to review the cards and buy according to actual performance/price or your needs

[Mad Scientist]

Originally posted by D. Flame:

Should we be concerned that the new AMD cards are supposedly releasing next month, but we have no real official info on them yet?

It's entirely normal to have little to no information until any one party is allowed to disclose any amount of information. Quite often the company chooses when the information goes out, which is either with a "leak" or the desired scheduled date; usually when the product goes live for sale.

[D. Flame]

Originally posted by Mad Scientist:

Originally posted by D. Flame:

Should we be concerned that the new AMD cards are supposedly releasing next month, but we have no real official info on them yet?

It's entirely normal to have little to no information until any one party is allowed to disclose any amount of information. Quite often the company chooses when the information goes out, which is either with a "leak" or the desired scheduled date; usually when the product goes live for sale.

True, but the things are supposedly releasing in less than 2 weeks.

[C1REX]

I’m not concerned. I’m looking forward for a spectacle and entertainment.

I’m curious if AMD is able to miss the opportunity. And if they do I want to know how they can make it possible. Are they going for Nvidia price minus $50 just to get bad reviews and lower the price later? But that would be boring.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

They are gone stick to as close as possible to Nvidia 5000 series prices anyway.

[Mad Scientist]

Originally posted by D. Flame:

Originally posted by Mad Scientist:

It's entirely normal to have little to no information until any one party is allowed to disclose any amount of information. Quite often the company chooses when the information goes out, which is either with a "leak" or the desired scheduled date; usually when the product goes live for sale.

True, but the things are supposedly releasing in less than 2 weeks.

People don't want to violate NDA's.
Wait patiently, in some cases they can delay the date for reasons no one will disclose. When they give info (or a "leak" gets out) or launch the product, the info will be available, not a second sooner.

[Monk]

Originally posted by WinterSorrow:

I see you don't remember the AMD Vega debacle and the only reason why GTX 1080Ti was redesigned as a Titan in which to destroy the AMD Vega (yet Vega was not even close to it's own earmarked, pre-release performance specs). :badluck:

Wake me up when the actual hardware is tested without bias, please and thank you. :csd2smile:

Tbf, if vega 56 / 64 hadn't of used ridiculously expensive HBM2 memory, they likely would of matched nvidia for performance at a lower price.

I had a vega 64 launch edition card, one of maybe a handful at a special introductory price here in the UK and it was actually a great card, it was just too expensive due to the memory, which i think was something daft like 200 bucks alone!

Without that it would of traded blows with the 1080 for less money.

[Haruspex]

I was waiting for the 9070 xt as an upgrade from my 6800 (non xt), but after seeing the state the whole GPU market was in with limited stock and scalpers galore, plus the looming threat of tariffs bringing prices up, I was just going to stick to my 6800 and ride it out until things were more favorable.

Then I happened to see a Sapphire Nitro+ 7900 XTX on Newegg for regular (non scalper) pricing. I went ahead and grabbed it, even knowing new cards are coming soon. Reports are that the 9070 xt will not outperform the 7900 XTX, plus the fact that the 7900 XTX has 24 GB of VRAM vs the 9070 xt's 16 GB.

It's proven so far to be basically overkill for gaming at 1440p, and even raytracing performance is good depending on the game. I'm enjoying the extra VRAM for AI workloads too. I can run bigger LLM models with larger context windows, and I even got Stable Diffusion working very quickly at high resolutions using ComfyUI and Zluda, which allows CUDA to work on AMD cards.

Another benefit is that since the 7900 XTX has been out for a while now, drivers and support have matured and it's very stable and reliable.

This whole next gen is screwed up, with the new Nvidia cards still catching on fire and some lacking advertised specs, and with AMD once again proving they never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity, feel free to wait, or if you can find a deal on a current gen card don't hesitate to grab it.

[Set-115689]

Reveal is on February 28, 2025? Launch on March 6, 2025?

The new software might be interesting. There's been some benchmark leaks. Price is the main concern for value. Also availability of course.

[󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡⁧⁧Kei]

if they're priced higher than 700 it'll be another AMD misses an opportunity moment just like how they won't place the 3d cache on both ccd's on the 9950X3D

[wesnef]

Originally posted by Set-115689:

Reveal is on March 28, 2025?

Feb 28, right?

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/amd-announces-rx-9000-event-on-february-28-shoots-down-rumors-of-32gb-model

[Set-115689]

Originally posted by wesnef:

Originally posted by Set-115689:

Reveal is on March 28, 2025?

Feb 28, right?

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/amd-announces-rx-9000-event-on-february-28-shoots-down-rumors-of-32gb-model

Corrected to February ty

[Tonepoet]

Originally posted by _I_:

no, just wait for honest reviewers to review the cards and buy according to actual performance/price or your needs

Nah.

If you don't preorder that stuff scalpers will swoop in and steal up all the stock and charge you the price they spent on every graphics card just to get one. Then you'll be waiting months to upgrade or paying more than the perf. warrants.

Plus the B580 showed us that day 1 reviews can be somewhat misleading anyway if there is an error in the reviewing methodology.