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Captain_Yuri said:

Honestly that is still my recommendation outside of 4090 buyers. Buying neither Nvidia or Radeon feels good right now. Nvidia because of how greedy they are and AMD cause of a lack of features amongst other issues like with emulation.

There is a good amount of reasons to wait for next gen imo. GPU and PC shipments in general have massively gone down similar to Turning. The price and performance outside of flagship is largely unappealing like Turing. Nvidia should be switching to Samsung similar to Ampere. Nvidia is increasing their vram for the mid ranged every generation. There are new features like DLSS 3 and VSR that need some more updates to get their kinks worked out similar to Turing.

So I think there's a good chance that Blackwell will be similar to Ampere in terms of performance uplift for the price you pay. $600 could be the new price for the 5070 regardless but imo, the performance uplift would be worth the price by then. And they could potentially add in 16GB of vram for the 70 class as well.

Yeah, I mean if this were a traditional generation this would a 4060Ti tier card and priced $450-$500. And waiting nearing three years for this is just super underwhelming like the rest of the lower tier GPU's. To put this into perspective the 3060Ti was on par with a 2080 Super and launched at $399, or £369. This gen has 50% inflated cost over last gen.. and we're getting on par if not a little lower (DLSS 3 notwithstanding) than a regular 80 tier card of previous generation.

While I do think what Nvidia is doing with software is very cool and innovative.. their GPU pricing and naming shenannigans the last couple of years has been total garbage. Ampere prices stayed the same. The only other alternative is AMD with RDNA cards but they miss big features like Reflex and other really useful Nvidia proprietary features.

Not sure if its worth looking out for a deal now for a sub $300 as a stop gap. I feel we might see some major price drops for the 7900XT in the upcoming months. And perhaps the 7800XT could be sub-$500.

And true, moving price points I think sets them up with next gens 3nm costs. Though (like you said) we should at least we should see some good generational gains with an overhauled architecture. And by then RT should be viable on lower end cards.

For a stopgap, if you were to need one, I'd suggest the 6700XT, as it can be found for about $350 right now. Nothing else comes really close in price/performance in that price range. Sure, it's a bit above $300, but it also might allow you to wait for the next gen if nothing else comes out this gen that sparks your itnerest.