Was sitting here daydreaming of my future build and saw that this RX 7900 XTX is slightly cheaper than the last one that was posted. No idea if this model actually blows up or calls your family mean names, just looked like a good price.
Sadly doesn't come with the SSD however like this deal.
MSY link for same product: https://www.msy.com.au/product/sapphire-pulse-radeon-rx-7900…
Cheers to one of our fav AIs for pointing out that PCCG and Centre Com have price matched.
I.e. I can't vouch for this Sapphire model in particular, but I see on reviews that the 7900 XTX does pretty decent
“ No idea if this model actually blows up or calls your family mean names”
4060 Ti 8GB launch = 1/10
RX 7600 8GB @ AU$449 slower than 6700 10GB @ $436 = 1/10
Sapphire chopping $500 off this card sinch launching 6 months ago = 5/10
sinch launching 6 months ago
Looks like ChatGPT needs another two or three more RTX 4090 cards.
Appreciate it's a gag, but I have wondered whether part of nVidia's VRAM strategy is to keep the cards that have enough VRAM to work with larger AI / ML models workloads at premium pricepoints.
Read a report about the high level of demand for cards for non-gaming uses (not quite at crypto levels, sure) but also have read that the complexity of the model you can run is limited by whether you can hold it in the card's VRAM. Releasing a mid-range card with high memory might not be in nVidia's best interests if they want to push buyers to the top of the range for AI work. (I guess the 4060ti 16GB goes against the grain there, but the 128 bit bus might hobble it for ML work?).
It is basically profit margin, cost and miscalculation. The miscalculation bit is nVidia didn't expect game developers would start to take the easy route and just use more VRAM this early. Also, current gen console games do use more than 8GB VRAM. The last of us part 1 PC port is obviously based on the PS5 version and PS5 has 16GB RAM (even after taking out 2GB for system memory, PS5 still has 14GB available to the game). Since games play best on "PC", it doesn't make sense to try to do VRAM optimisation for the PC version.
With more newer games likely to continue using more VRAM, it doesn't look good for nVidia. nVidia doesn't like bad publicity and this issue hitting their 70s and 60s cards cannot be good. 16GB VRAM option on 4060 Ti shows nVidia knows it was a mistake. 4060 Ti reviewed poorly adds insult to injury. Sony won't be releasing more PS5 ports for quite some time (coz. those titles need to remain console exclusive for another 2 years). The only title that might still get ported is ghost of Tsushima, but the base graphics engine is probably still PS4 era with minor asset upgrades to 4K. Thanks to Series S (games can only use 8GB VRAM), Microsoft first party titles probably will need to still support 8GB VRAM well.
AI accelerators, I am sure nVidia knows how to milk big customers. nVidia won't sell them mid range stuff. Dunno much about crypto (not sure whether 8GB VRAM is sufficient, guessing yes).
@netsurfer: That's exactly what nvidia expected. The gimped ram is planned obsoleteness. To force an upgrade even if the core performance isn't the bottleneck.
@Jimmy77: Force an upgrade to what? AMD graphics cards? I think for RTX3070 Ti, 3070, 3060 Ti, nVidia was probably too arrogant. The 40 series, probably arrogant as well, but is also a mistake. The two games which raised this issue, the general tech consensus is that while 8GB VRAM was a bad idea from nVidia, the game devs should / could have worked on the VRAM usage a bit better. AMD RX 7600 (announced yesterday) comes with 8GB VRAM only.
Game developers do need to decide whether they will allow smooth 1080p 8GB VRAM gaming moving forward. Sure, it is certainly bad for nVidia mid high end cards, but majority of people have inferior GPUs to PS5 and Series X and they are 8GB VRAM cards. I know average OZBers have better GPUs but look at stats on Steam.
Do we all knew this years ago? Or, most of us are jumping on the bandwagon? Are we really going to go, for proper 1080p gaming, better go with a 16GB VRAM GPU now? nVidia and AMD are not really increasing the base VRAM for mainstream cards. nVidia will probably offer more SKUs to bandaid fix this issue, but 16GB VRAM ones won't be cheap.
busted
This makes me happy as I have a 6700. 5/7 would buy again
Wake me up when it gets to $1000 <yawn>
Wake me up when it's free
Wake me up before you go-go
Don’t leave me hanging on an old GPU feelin’ slow-slow
By the time you woke up, its gone….
you snooze you lose
Wake me up when games stop prematurely launching
Seems like nice and small GPU (2.7 slot, ATX , Dimension: 313(L)X 133.75(W)X 52.67 (H)mm) for mini-itx builds compared to ASUS TUF (352.9 x 158.2 x 72.6 mm) model
I bought it for $1559 last week, fits nicely in my mini ITX Thermaltake tower 100, it's about the biggest card I could get in there, seems to clock to ~2800 in benchmarks
What.. no free NVME?
Still ends up cheaper if you purchased it with the same nvme drive.
All good, I seem to have NVME drives coming out of my ears.. just seems like a thing everyone is doing now days
I’ve had to start picking my battles, PS5 is loaded up and I’ve only got one slot left on my mobo
Gives me motivation to wait for another 4TB $220 deal
250$ more to go.
Seeing the insane graphics in Cyberpunk 2077 Path Tracing Overdive mode is the only reason stopping me from pulling the trigger on this.
Saving $100 is better than getting that lexar ssd
If it only it was decent for VR
this ones actually hit my threshold to buy….. buttt they still havent fixed drawing 100w+ when youre doing nothing if you have more than one screen. its been close to a year now! clearly they dont care about the product
I've got a 7900XT and it uses about 40w with 2 monitors on desktop. Not great still but not really the 100w from launch.
what refresh rates are they both?
The high power draw is monitor dependent and is why AMD still hasn't fixed the issue completely
Unlike NVIDIA, AMD are too tight ass to buy the top 200 monitors in the market and then test single/dual/triple/quad setups along with differing VRR and refresh rates
Also, high power draw on triple monitor setups and higher is a hardware issue and can't be fixed until RDNA 3.5 or 4.0
If you use a lot of monitors and care about power usage, get RTX
It's been half a year but I see your point. I have the 7900xt. Reading this I'm intrigued to see my power draw on the card. I just plugged and played.
This price should be RRP from day 1
I have this card since launch and its been just so good for 1080p 360hz and above and 1440p 240hz 😍
This card or 4080 (Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4080 16GB Eagle $1699 from umart) ??
Ray tracing is not a must but it would be preferred.
Some Adobe Premiere video editing jobs.
Diablo 4 is a must-buy. so 4080 reduces $100?
Other games like gal game and some Unreal Engine adult games etc.
Sorry, how does Diablo IV play into this?
Theres a promotion with certain nvidia cards where you get Diablo free.
I personally would have preferred a U$100 Steam card like in the US, but this isn't bad if you're dead set on buying this game. Because there's on physical PC release, you can only buy it at full price through Battlenet, so effectively $110 'discount.'
Oh right, I misread and thought he was talking about the XTX card and I couldn't see the promo. All good, understood.
What about 4070ti, your games does not seems need much power..
Cheers, I'll edit post to include links - thanks for the heads up!
Now $1459 @ umart/msy
This card is falling faster than the AUD
Wot?