Very nice! How much does it cost per month?

And how much TB traffic do you have per month?

It feels like, during these Next Fests, we go from having game backlog problem to a game demo backlog one, with how many of them come at one without knowing if they'll still be available after the event.

I'd approach Deliver At All Costs with open mind and with little expectations. It's not a bad game, or it doens't look liek it will be, but it's no masterpiece, and it may not be for everone.

I'll give the two you'0ve mentioned a look, tho I'm not a fan of Souls games. I'm here for the fun and entertainment, not the challenge of dying a hundred times until I memorize a boss pattern.

But hey, look at us, talking about games and not hardware. Go figure! We're two weirdos.

$100 per month for 5 GB Fiber

My previous service kept raising prices and I was paying $117 for 1 GB Fiber which is the main reason why I changed service.

I would say around 1.5 TB, probably more.

The 9070XT is not a perfect card, by any means, but the current state is so poor that it manages to positively stand out.

The RT improvement is very noticeable and welcome, AMD now has an architecture that's good enough for all RT games, but they're still one gen behind Nvidia and, when it comes to Path Tracing, things aren't there yet. The HU/Techspot test for Indiana Jones that crushed the 5070 yesterday does the same with the 9070XT today:

You need an Nvidia card with 16GB of VRAM if you're serious about Path Tracing.

Also, from the Hardware Unboxed review, we'll have to keep an eye on retail prices, as the $599 may be a short lived miracle and face almost 5070Ti prices (MSRP, not the inflated retail ones).

In any case, it's a good card that offers good performance improvements gen-on-gen, no review I've seen other than Gamersnexus with FFXIV has mentioned any problem or weird issues with the drivers, most come with the old 8-pin power plugs, and stock should be good )in theory).

Let's hope AMD can take advantage of the whole situation to gain some marketshare and to bring Nvidia back to where it should be, for our own good.

This may be the card you were waiting for to upgrade, Chazore.

Wukong at max Path Tracing is similar, 9070XT is only 42% of 5070Ti @ 1440p (though 5070 is much better there, @80% of 5070Ti).

I'm wondering how much optimization there's been for nVidia cards over years and does that maybe shows in some path tracing games, since on the paper, 9070XT should perform better than that.

Wukong seems to be a very Nvidia optimized game, like CoD are for AMD cards. Alan Wake 2 is also a bit like that if you push RT to the max. But looking at Cyberpunk 2077 and other titles with RT, the jump is clear and very noticeable.

At the end of the day, it's all about how you set the game, as even reviewers use different settings and get different results:

Techpower up vs Hardware Unboxed

I upgraded from an i7 4790k to a 9800X3D early Jan and the 9800X3D has been great thus far.

When you say Path Tracing, is that different from Ray Tracing?

Sorry, I dont really follow the tech talk about this subject....

Crazy that the average frame rate is 10 for Indiana Jones using a 4070 Super.

The 4070 Super falls that much because of its 12GB of VRAM. It's the same reason the 5070 also sees bad results.

My understanding, I'm far from the best person to explain it, is that Path Tracing and Ray Tracing differ in how many "rays" they use to generate the scene and the way they calculate how the light bounces in the objects in that scene. Here's an article that explains it, if you want to know more: https://www.techspot.com/article/2485-path-tracing-vs-ray-tracing/

And here's a Digital Foundry video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwjiG_9U0aA

I hope it helps.