There’s never been a better time to buy AMD’s flagship graphics card – as prices plummet ahead of inevitable Nvidia RTX 5000 reveal
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XFX’s Speedster MERC 310 model of theAMDRX 7900 XTX GPU is falling in price across multiple retailer sites in the UK and US, amidst rumors ofNvidia’s imminentRTX 5000 series reveal.
It’s available for$879.99 (was $929.99) on Neweggin the US and£789.99 (was £899.99) on eBuyerin the UK - as an added bonus, the Newegg deal has a game bundle containingUnknown 9: AwakeningandWarhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2. While the discounts are much better for PC gamers in the UK for now, we could see more price drops in the near future withAMD ditching high-end GPUs- not to mention the fact thatBlack Fridayis now on the horizon.
This isn’t the first time that AMD’s top-of-the-line GPU’s price has dropped significantly in price, as we saw it fallbelow $850 for the first time ever earlier this year. This stands in direct opposition to Nvidia’s competing flagship GPU (theRTX 4090), which has seen much smaller discounts since its 2022 release - based on Nvidia’s current success, I expect this to continue with the RTX 5000 series GPUs, after the inevitable wave of post-release scalping.
It might be time to give AMD’s GPU a chance…
While it’s clear that Nvidia’s RTX 4080 Super and 4090 are more popular options, I’d say you shouldn’t scoff at the RX 7900 XTX. Perhaps, the most appealing aspect of Nvidia’s GPUs is DLSS, which whencompared to AMD’s FSRhas somewhat weaker image quality when utilizing its upscaling modes.
I don’t think this alone should be a reason to totally ignore the RX 7900 XTX, especially since itsits alongside the 4080 Super in gaming performanceacross a plethora of titles (even outperforming it in some). The major downside is itsray-tracingperformance, which struggles to provide consistent frame rates at higher resolutions - conversely, Nvidia’s GPUs have nailed this, at least within the RTX 4000 series.
Fortunately, it provides high-level performance outside of ray-traced games, with consistent frame rates over 100fps at4Kwhen using FSR with Fluid Motion Frames (AMD’s software for generating and inserting additional frames, which has its own rival in Nvidia’s DLSS Frame Generation).
Even with Nvidia’s RTX 5000 series reveal no doubt coming sometime in the near future, there’s a high chance that prices for both of the brand’s current high-end GPUs will remain unchanged for now - at least, until Black Friday. If you aren’t too bothered by poor ray-tracing performance and can deal with the weaker performance of FSR in comparison to DLSS, the RX 7900 XTX is certainly worth a shot.
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Isaiah is a Staff Writer for the Computing channel at TechRadar. He’s spent over two years writing about all things tech, specifically games on PC, consoles, and handhelds. He started off atGameRantin 2022 after graduating from Birmingham City University in the same year, before writing atPC Guidewhich included work on deals articles, reviews, and news on PC products such as GPUs, CPUs, monitors, and more. He spends most of his time finding out about the exciting new features of upcoming GPUs, and is passionate about new game releases on PC, hoping that the ports aren’t a complete mess.
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