Q1 PC Hardware Releases - Nvidia and AMD GPUs

Intel was essentially a flop, so I won’t even talk about it. AMD was a bit lighter than people expected. They announced the 9900x3D and 9950x3D to release in March. They also announced mobile x3D chips which is actually pretty interesting, but we’ll see what benchmarks look like. Bit surprising that, while they mentioned RDNA4 generally and the 9070 specifically, they didn’t give any detail beyond “Q1”. Most people were expecting a full announcement on that today, so no specs or other details caught people off guard.

We’ll see if Nvidia’s keynote tonight is interesting.

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We’ll definitely know after tonight, but if the plan was to go AMD on a GPU, absolutely

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The only way this AMD gen isn't an absolute disaster is if they essentially treat it like the RX 480 and 580 back in the day. Where it was great value for the performance.

If they are still trying to play this game where they price their corresponding cards $50-100 cheaper than the Nvidia alternative, then they will be seen as an absolute failure.

Jensen is going on a hell of a fricking tangent about gaming/GPU history. He'd better be getting somewhere interesting soon.

5090 $1,999
5080 $999
5070ti $749
5070 $549

The issue is that rumors are that the 5080 is coming out first, then the 5090, then the others sometime after. We don’t know exactly how that timeline will play out, and 3rd party reviews likely won’t come out until shortly before release. What’s the end of your return window?

I’m holding off on speculating about performance, because we just don’t know yet. But something that jumped out at me was a return to 30 series pricing striation after the 40 series heavily inflated the 4080 to the point that it made zero sense compared to the 4090. Now the 5090 saw a significant $300 price increase while the 5080 saw a $200 price decrease. For context, the 3080 release for $699 in 2020 would cost $852 now adjusted for inflation. Still lower than the $999 of the 5080, but for context, the $1,199 RTX 4080 would be $1,292 now.

I could be wrong, but this is giving me 30 series vibes. Hopefully the benchmarks pan out and the scalpers don’t frick up everything. If the 5080 releases first, as had been rumored, and we manage at least 125% of the 4090, I’m going to have a hard time not pulling the trigger. If we can reach 150%+ of the 4090, I’m (attempting) buying day 1.

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Going to be monitoring this pretty closely. That 5070 = 4090 performance statement is wild. Need to hear some context behind that.

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They’re making this claim because the new version of nvidia frame generation can generate 3 additional frames instead of just 1 that current frame gen generates.

Raster to raster comparison 4090 would still win.

Guess ill have to figure out if i can just swap out my 4090 for 5090 by itself.