Comment on We all deserve better than this
grue@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoI mean this in the most polite way possible, but why did you need a new GPU so quickly?
7.5 years is “quickly?!” I’m replacing a Vega 56 from 2017.
Comment on We all deserve better than this
grue@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoI mean this in the most polite way possible, but why did you need a new GPU so quickly?
7.5 years is “quickly?!” I’m replacing a Vega 56 from 2017.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Then don’t buy on launch day? It pretty much always sucks, better just to go back a generation.
grue@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
No, you’ve got that backwards. Standing in line at a brick-and-mortar store on launch day is the best strategy to get a card at MSRP. Otherwise, you’re either having to constantly keep checking for months on end to snag a card during the brief windows when it’s in stock, or pay way over MSRP for the privilege of easy availability, or deal with all the risk and complexity associated with Craigslist/eBay sales of used stuff.
Also, in this particular case, (a) a $600 9070 XT is a much better value than a $700+ 7900 XT with similar performance, and (b) this generation has tangible feature improvements (namely, decent ray tracing) that you just can’t get at all going back a generation.