RX 9070 XT

[hazmatt]

Has  anyone been able to get one of these? Seems that the scalpers were the only ones able to buy one and I'm curious to hear from somebody who has seen one in real life.

[Gman]

I was able to get one the day after launch, as my local store is being nice to me as I just bought 2 new systems, OLEDs, 5080/5090 from them, and asked them to please get me one to try in our HTPC/3rd system. 

Wow.  Seriously impressed with the performance.  In my new 9800x3d system it trades punches with the 5080 in some games, and is almost always close, 5 or 10 percent either direction, based on info from 3dmark/Youtube for the 5070ti/5070.  I got a deal on launch day for my 5080 as they hadn't raised the MSRP yet and mine was $1699 CAD (went up to 1899 where it is currently priced, lower end MSI card with no lights).  My Asrock 9070XT was $1049 CAD, which is 850 dollars less then the 5080 right now.


Haven't had a $1000 card that was new which made me say "wow" so much since the 1080 first came out. 

I'll test it in AH tonight and compare it to the 5080 system I'm using as my AH setup.

[hazmatt]

So this card has performance comparable to the 5080 which is twice the price if I'm reading this right?

[Eagler]

So this card has performance comparable to the 5080 which is twice the price if I'm reading this right?

It's why it hard to find the upper 4000 cards..the performance difference isn't worth the current asking price..

Eagler