Two months after launch, the Radeon RX 9070 XT is still nowhere near its advertised $600 price. With global supply stabilizing, it's time to examine the real...

Article is a bit old but still relevant and how gamers are being screwed.

  • who@feddit.orgEnglish
    44·
    5 days ago

    GPU prices suddenly tripled about 4-5 years ago, due to price gouging that was enabled by mining, scalping, and LLM demand. The pandemic made it worse. Prices have come down a little since then, but nowhere near sane ranges.

    GPU makers haven’t ramped up capacity to meet the increased demand, and greedflation doesn’t go away easily.

    • real_squids@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      9·
      5 days ago

      Factory recertified is probably the way to go if you want powerful hardware for (relatively) cheap, new gpu prices just don’t make sense anymore. Even back when RX 6x50 refreshes came out shit wasn’t so cartoonishly expensive

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      I distinctly remember buying a Radeon Vega 56 in-person at Microcenter on launch day because I must have been worried about price, availability, or both. That was seven years ago.

      (That and my 9070 XT – also bought in-person on launch day for MSRP – are the only GPUs I’ve bought in the last decade.)

  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    15·
    5 days ago

    It’s true, but it was true of every GPU launch for the last three years or so. I’m not trying to excuse it but it’s not exactly news.

    • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      51·
      5 days ago

      It’s still good to be reminded that corporations are not your friend and we should be demanding better with our wallets.

  • ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    5 days ago

    If you show up in person it was not, but the resale market and board partners kind of screwed this up.

    AMD and Intel both need to be launching FEs and pushing the price down and making these board partners look bad.

      • dubyakay@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        5 days ago

        Recent reference cards for AMD were actually built by Sapphire from what I was told.

        So the Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT was their reference card basically. And it acts like that, a very solid card.

        • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          5 days ago

          Sapphire has been building/designing their reference cards for a long ass time.

          AMD’s website has a picture of what I assume is the reference 9070 and sapphires pulse looks pretty different.

          I wish they’d bring back the reference cards. They look so much better than the aftermarket ones, even if the coolers are usually some of the worst.

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    5 days ago

    Buys a B580 at MSRP

    Laughs in smooth framerates in 1080p with all that extra money in pocket

      • neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        Yeah, I’ve decided to just use a steamdeck. If it won’t run on the steamdeck then fuck it.

        Although, I do want to get a gpu for ai audio transcription.

      • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        My trusty GTX 970 was doing almost everything I needed it to do (the only bummer being it couldn’t run HellDivers2 smoothly) but it died this week. The B580 was available at MSRP so I jumped on it. It is at least twice as powerful as what I used to have so I’m confident I won’t find it under powered for anything I’ll throw at it for the next 5 years.

        Playing in 4K with raytracing is just not worth paying an extra $700+ to scalpers and price gougers for. I bet you stop noticing the difference after 5 minutes of gameplay.

    • grillEnglish
      21·
      5 days ago

      I can’t believe this is true. If I’d known, I never would’ve looked at the MSRP.