Thursday, March 06

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Daily News Stuff 6 March 2025

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  • AMD's 9070 XT is here and it's (read through nine pages of review) good.  (Tom's Hardware)

    At $600 MSRP it's a hair slower than Nvidia's $750 5070 Ti on non-ray-traced titles.  On ray tracing it's a hair slower than Nvidia's $800 4070 from last year.

    Now a 5070 Ti will cost you around $900 at retail if you can find one - which you actually can right now - and the 4070 Ti super is completely gone.  But we don't know yet what the supply will be like for MSRP 9070 XT cards, so it's not clear if Nvidia costs 20% more for similar performance, or 50% more.

    Reviewers have also noticed that the performance is very consistent, holding steady throughout a benchmark and also between benchmark runs.  That matters because a card that peaks at 80 fps but often drops down to 50 fps can feel worse than one that delivers 60 fps all the time.

    It's also 50% faster than my 7800 XT in non-ray-traced games, and 60% faster in ray tracing.  It will probably offer worse performance per dollar because I got my card at 20% under MSRP, but if you can't find a deal like that it should look much better.


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1 americans: treating wackjob academcis as damage, and routing around them

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2 "I'm sure we'll survive."
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