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Pemalite said:

JEMC said:

I'll believe it when I see it, but I really hope AMD manages to close the gap, especially when it comes to path tracing. In any case, Nvidia should still have an advantage as UDNA5 will face Nvidia's next generation, not Blackwell, and we don't know how much Nvidia will improve in that area.

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

Intel’s High-End Battlemage Arc B770 GPU Could Be Unveiled As Soon As Computex 2025, Could Compete With NVIDIA’s RTX 5060 Series

https://wccftech.com/intel-battlemage-arc-b770-gpu-could-be-unveiled-as-soon-as-computex-2025/

I hope Intel launches them. The more competition, the better, and the driver overhead issues should be less of a problem in that segment as people likely have better CPUs.

I mean, AMD doesn't need to beat nVidia they just need to be "good enough" where the difference is irrelevant.

Case in point, their geometry throughput for Tessellation has never been able to beat nVidia's Polymorph engines, but the difference is so insignificant these days it's a pointless comparison.
They need to do the same with Ray Tracing, RDNA4 needs a little bit more refinement on the Ray Tracing side, but they are definitely going in the right direction.


The 9070 series is slowly creeping up in price, the 9070XT is double the price of the 7800XT now... Which sucks. Need an upgrade, but refuse to spend more than the price of a gaming console.

The "Good enough" is where AMD is sitting at currently with RDNA4. Raytracing performance is good enough to keep up with NVidia without performance dropping like a rock, FSR4 is good enough to not see a difference between it and DLSS anymore, and so on. While AMD doesn't beat NVidia with their technologies, just keeping up with the competition also means you lack any killer or "must buy" features.

As for 9070 prices, are those really that high outside of Europe? Here the bigger issue is availability, as they are often lacking stock, especially the non-XT versions, but when they are available, the prices are okay-ish (630-700€ for the 9070,760-830€ for the 9070XT), certainly better than the 5070Ti and 5080 (850-980€ and 1149-1439€ respectively), but with the 5070 widely available for 599€, either can be a tough sell for people who don't need (or think they don't need) 16GB VRAM.