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JEMC said:

Nvidia has the brand power to do nothing and still win. There were people that bought 3090Tis for $2500 or even more during the last crypto boom/pandemic, and all the other cards were also overpriced and still sold well enough. So, Nvidia doesn't need to do anything because it's Nvidia and people buy Nvidia.

AMD is in more trouble, but at the same time their CPU division is doing fairly well, and has done so for a while, and so I could see AMD taking a small hit on their margins to sell more cards in order to try to increase their market share. But they're not a charity, don't expect miracles.

And yes, I do expect that chip makers/AIB partners will try to partially offload some of that price hike due to tariffs to the other markets to subsidize US customers so they don't angry with them. It sucks, but sometimes it works this way.

Even the B580, which launched two weeks ago and oddly enough it's still nowhere to be seen in any Spanish stores other than Alternate, or the 7600XT would bring me quite a nice upgrade, and bring some RT capabilites on top (not that RT matters at this market segment). Surely the 9060 XT (?) would push that even more. So well, the more I wait, the less I'll have to pay to double my GPU power.

And you, with a 1080Ti, it's about 7900GRE or 4070Ti class to get that 2x jump, so the 9070 XT or 5070 should do the trick. Shame for the VRAM capacity of the 5070, tho. Unless you aim for the best of the best, of course.

Exactly, and it's why I haven't really gone out of my way to get anything from the 4000 line yet. My 1080ti is still getting me by, it's just the CPU is really holding it back by now, and I would like a faster RAM kit, and maybe an NVME (turns out my mobo supports 1 slot).

Last edited by Chazore - 5 days ago