Where I live the cheapest 9070 (non XT) costs USD 635, and this is sort of a special price (albeit it could become base in a few months). Median competitive price is closer to USD 700+.
Cheapest 5060 (8GB) is around USD 340 (median competitive is close).
5060 Ti (16 GB) is around USD 550 (median competitive is close).
AMD in my country is no go outside of some older, super low end SKUs (but you can also get better Nvidia cards second hand).
I don’t care about brands, but where I live AMD is not really competitive (assuming like for like software support).
For the most part, I really do think AMD is trying to compete with Nvidia as best they can, in as many ways as they can, but Nvidia is simply utterly dominant and huge.
They have very usable alternatives for almost everything Nvidia does, their cards are way, way easier to use on Linux due to being way more open with their drivers and such…
Maybe, maybe, depending on exactly how the coming implosion of the US AI bubble plays out, they might be able to gain some ground against Nvidia… but that is an exceptionally complicated scenario to try to predict in any real detail.
You can finally get an RX 9070 (non XT), for under $600 MSRP now.
NewEgg has the ASRock 9070 at $530 right now.
You can even find 9070 XTs at $600.
The next closest GPU from Nvidia in terms of performance per $ is the RTX 5060.
Which is about half as performant as a normal 9070.
The Nvidia 5070 TI is a bit more performant than a 9070, a bit less than a 9070 XT… and its at $750.
https://bestvaluegpu.com/
It would be extremely wild if a techtuber did a ‘lets revisit price per performance’ for GPUs right now.
Where I live the cheapest 9070 (non XT) costs USD 635, and this is sort of a special price (albeit it could become base in a few months). Median competitive price is closer to USD 700+.
Cheapest 5060 (8GB) is around USD 340 (median competitive is close).
5060 Ti (16 GB) is around USD 550 (median competitive is close).
AMD in my country is no go outside of some older, super low end SKUs (but you can also get better Nvidia cards second hand).
I don’t care about brands, but where I live AMD is not really competitive (assuming like for like software support).
Ah, sorry, I should have specified I was talking about US prices. =X
No worries, I get that.
I am just saying globally prices are more variable. I can’t speak for EU specifically, but our prices generally track EU (more so than US).
AMD needs to compete directly with Nvidia, but they won’t since GPUs are a (US) government backed oligopoly.
For the most part, I really do think AMD is trying to compete with Nvidia as best they can, in as many ways as they can, but Nvidia is simply utterly dominant and huge.
They have very usable alternatives for almost everything Nvidia does, their cards are way, way easier to use on Linux due to being way more open with their drivers and such…
Maybe, maybe, depending on exactly how the coming implosion of the US AI bubble plays out, they might be able to gain some ground against Nvidia… but that is an exceptionally complicated scenario to try to predict in any real detail.