I was just mentioning in the other thread how Micro Center is a haven for this stuff. No online orders means scalpers have no power hereGotta love Microcenter. If they were a little bit closer I'd buy everything from them.
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Can't they just go in the store, buy one and then scalp it online?
you think the cashiers are gonna let one guy get away with buying 10 9070xt's?
12GB is not future-proof. It's just enough for today's games, so I would probably go for an AMD card if I had to choose between the two. However, if the 5070 were to get more VRAM, I would choose Nvidia because DLSS offers better experience, especially DLSS FG.
At least it's not Newegg where they bundle a load of useless shit (including exploding PSUs) that they can't get rid of at a huge markup.
Did for me. 6:00am hit F5 and went from Coming Soon to Sold Out
Yup, I also saw this. The screenshot from caseking I posted earlier which had MSRP prices
absolutely vile cunt rat thieves is what all these stores are; amd must feel pretty damn annoyed by the absolutely insane profits these stores are now making off them.
it's kinda hit or miss between launches but i would prefer to not get the non-exclusive brands (gigabyte/asus/etc). Sapphire, powercolor, and xfx are all great.
I doubt it's the board partners, I've watched in real time several stores going "out of stock", and then some time later having full stock at increased prices; they are selling in batches and hiking the price up every time one of their "low stock" batches runs out.
Card was for 799€ on Alternate. What kind of sick joke is this??
WELL EUROPE FOLKS, LET THE SCALPING BEGIN.
Later this month
a reference model would have helped matters so much
You are right, one card that was "out of stock" got jacked up by almost €200. Not going to use that store again.
Very small differences most of the time, usually the biggest one is factory overclock. The Hellhound was widely regarded as the best AIB card last gen, this time it'll probably be the Sapphire Nitro. And I'm not just saying that because I got one
Those RT benchmarks seem anomalous. Other sites found the 9070 XT was consistently ahead of the 5070 in RT (not PT) at 1440p.I thought the 9070XT was supposed to go head-to-head with the RTX4080, even in RT. What's happened? It seems that leakers have been spreading fake benchmarks and naive people really believed them.
Worse perfomance in raster compared to the 4080.
Much worse in RT
www.computerbase.de
even DF show 9070 non XT +- same as 5070 in RT
It's the AIBs. My guess is they had a set price and then AMD revealed the msrp at $599 at the last minute so they probably made a deal to allow some to retail at that price. All stores are doing this, not just 1 store. Microcenter said they sold out of msrp cards.
I don't know the situation in the US, I'm saying what it's like in europe, stores have wildly different prices amongst them so no, it's not the board partners here.
Well, I was going to buy a 9070 XT for a new build for the Wife, but now I'll just stick to Nvidia. If both companies are going to shaft me, I may as well get shafted by the company with the superior product. Should the 9070 XT actually stick around or close to the MSRP next month then I will buy one.
And i'm telling you its the same in the US, so no its not the stores, its the AIBs.
no it's not, ~650 to varying between 900 -1300 is not "the AIBs", that's stores seeing how much profit they can make, if it was the board partners the increases would be very close to each other, but they aren't, it's a complete wild fucking west.
AMD "promise" new cards for "MSRP"
