Hi all
I haven't posted a deal in a long time so I went looking for bargains to post. Seems most of my shopping is purchasing from other OzBargain posts rather than shopping naturally.
Here we have a Sapphire Radeon RX 7900 XT Pulse 20GB GPU for $1,099 with FREE shipping from Centre Com.
It shows as in stock whilst most other retailers have cleaned out their inventory. These are hot items given the underwhelming Nvidia paper launch.
"I don't HODL a hose, mate"
- Scott Morrison
o they skipped 8000 and wite to 9000 lol
Yup lol they renamed it for an unknown reason and named it 70/70 XT to compete with the 5070/5070 ti
As they are only targeting mid market gpus this time around
Finally they have done something to compete for real.
If I'm not mistaken according to rumours they are reserving the RX 8000 name for their mobile GPUs
Considering how the AUD is losing value I’m thinking the new GPUs will end up much more expensive than this deal.
Take non-specific AMD marketing slides with a pinch of salt (like when NVIDIA claims 4090 peformance from the 5070). It's no secret that the 9070 XT will be a mid-range card with less memory and memory bandwidth and fewer compute units and stream processors than the 7900 XT.
If it can beat the 7900 GRE at raster performance with much better ray tracing performance for a lower price, it'll still be a good product.
is there actually going to be a 8000 series soon?
It's been decided to be named 9000 series. Coming in March according to AMD.
I wonder if this will be good value for Ai workloads. Hooked on being able to run my own AI offline not rely on the next crazy sociopath that manages an AI company and thinks they are Napoleon.
It should. My 7900xtx runs deepseek 32b really well
Good deal at the moment. Tempted to pull the trigger. This will be to complete a secondary Linux/Steam OS rig… May HODL for 9070XT and FSR 4 but could be the wrong call if Tariffs screw things or AMD get greedy on pricing after the terrible 5000 series uplift.
I waited months for the 5XXX series which turned out to be a shambles and ended up buying a 4080S anyway
Regretting not getting a 4080 (non super) for my main rig when they reached 1350 a while back!
Anyone investing in $1K+ RDNA 3 cards in 2025 is delusional
This deal is more expensive than the last deal for the 7900 XT from 8 months ago
RT and AI - both features that AMD knows are critical for future titles - are garbage on RDNA 3
RT = AMD have explicitly redesigned RDNA 4 to improve RT
AI = Upcoming FSR 4 AI upscaling does not work on RDNA 3's fake AI cores:
“AMD FSR 3 will continue to grow because it works on all GPUs on the market since it doesn't require machine learning, but it has limitations in visual quality. By using machine learning, we can achieve better quality, but this requires substantial computational power.
That's why only RDNA4 graphics cards can handle FSR4 technology.
It is possible we can optimize it (FSR 4) to make it work in RDNA 3 architecture, we are on it and we want to do it, but we need to work it”
AMD can't even officially support the 7800 XT in ROCm after 1.5 years so fat chance of back porting a hardware dependent feature when RDNA 3 lacks the hardware for it
As for the "I only care about raster" fanboys, imagine buying a $1K+ card today and then finding out in 6 months that all the games with mandatory RT run like garbage
Then you try using FSR 3.1 to recover frame rate but find the image quality turns into shimmering Vaseline
Meanwhile, every RTX 20/30/40 owner - even those with 12GB cards - can still manage a nice blend of FPS and image quality because they can all run DLSS 4 with the new Transformers model
Just a few more of these copypasta posts mate and I promise your Nvidia stock value will go up, I BELIEVE IN YOU
Lmfao the uninformed much 😂 yeah shit ai from a 2022 product that still does great in the hot deepseek all the rage atm kicking the tech bros. Also raw raster is high, sure take the fake frames tell me how special they make you feel having the number go bigger but not actually making the experience better and adding artifacts. But but jensen said if i buy more i save more and 5070 = 4090 performance 🍿
HODL, 9070XT around the corner and according to AMD own slide which was taken out of CES, it's on par with the 7900 XT.
https://preview.redd.it/if-the-9070-xt-performs-at-rx-7900-x…