Yeah and none of them are available at MSRP so they can go piss off.
* in the usa
Last i checked europe was pretty close to msrp, which is weird because its usually a lot more expensive for us than it is for the usa. Just checked, rx 9700 xt msrp was around 670 euro (including tax). They are now for sale for 699-717 euro, including what usa calls sales tax.
I call that as close to msrp that youre ever going to get on a product.
I’m thinking my next GPU upgrade might be AMD, so i can migrate to Linux. But i bought a used one in 2023, so i gonna wait at least until the next gen comes out.
As others have said, Nvidia cards are OK in Linux now, though AMD is better assuming you aren’t doing anything AI adjacent with the card.
nVidia’s fine. Use a distro that keeps fairly current on driver updates like Fedora or Arch.
I think you lose around 15%+ performance in Linux with a Nvidia card. I tried Nobara and Bazzite and i can confirm it, although i did not make any hardcore benchmarking.
AMD i think is on par with windows or maybe slightly worse.
That tracks with what I have seen with my own cards. I suspect some of it is because there were specific driver versions that many distros favored for stability reasons that may have left some performance on the table, but that’s just my personal speculation.
What does a 9000 series have on a 7000? Why do people even buy new cards at this point? Anything can run anything almost.
Better raytracing and FSR 4.
The 9000 cards don’t offer much of value other than running a bit cooler IMO. The fact is that the good 7000 cards aren’t really available in retail anymore, so it only matters to people (like me) that already have a good 7000 series card. If I didn’t have one and was looking for a new card I would have no problem picking up a 9000 series card as long as the price wasn’t ridiculous.
I was going to get a 9070XT… When it was MSRP.
Couldn’t find one at launch and that MSRP is a myth now :(
I’m sure they’re selling plenty, but I’ve never seen supply missing, in the EU at least.
