When Are Next-Gen GPUs Launching? Should You Buy Now or Wait?

[Eldrach]

Ah and this is the little secret for some people. If you live is a place where the cost of living is high and you get paid to compensate, then fixed costs like PC or hobby equipment are way more affordable.

Exactly

 

[daffy duck]

LOL, so RDNA4 mid-tier will be strong enough to relegate 7900XT to mid-tier status, currently considered high-tier, but you then say don't bother, go for Blackwell if you want high tier, but we'll ignore the fact 5080 will cost 2.5-3x as much as 8800XT.

 

[m3tavision]

IMO unbias opinion... (and from a 5x EVGA/k|ngp|n owner)


CUDA is dead for Gaming.
Nvidia's Architecture (Volta/Turing/Ampere/Ada/Blackwell) is geared for Ai and Data/Enterprise. That is why Nvidia heavily markets their gimmicks to Gamers to entice them, even though the overwhelming MAJORITY of 3090's & 4090 were sold to Content creators and those who do not wish to upgrade to $3k Pro cards and whom need/require CUDA for their work flow..


RDNA is 100% engineered for Gaming.
Dr Lisa Su (AMD CEO), changed Radeon's direction when she sequestered engineers (in secret) to develop a 100% Gaming architecture, scalable and supporting every feature that Game developers where developing and into the future. Along with a non-backwards multi-tasking software stack (that will rear it's head when PCIe5.0 is pushed).



The difference is obvious and to me it is astonishing that many are still loyal to or just following the Nv marketing... but you know who isn't?

All the Game Developers and hardware makers. THey understood that Ada Lovelace was NOT going to offer the Gamer anything moAr than marketing from Nvidia (because it was in fact, just more Ampere)
EVGA knew...
Microsoft knew...
SONY knew...
VALVE knew...
NVidia knew too... that is why they had to jumble their RTX marketing last few years.

Everyone knows this^, except those who have rode the NV stocks and can't give up the idea that NV sold them down the road (as Gamer) for Record breaking profits in Ai...


AMD ?
AMD chose a more risky route and Developed 100% gaming architecture in RDNA. One could say it's the only Professional Gaming architecture in the world (Blackwell isn't). While CDNA was engineered by a different team and for a wholly different purpose, DATA/Enterprise. Thus RDNA & CDNA.

RDNA is a remarkable Gaming architecture that is in EVERYTHING.
From the handheld SteamDeck to the Playstations/Xbox,etc. RDNA is truly scalable architecture. It will get better when AMD updates it's new Infinity-Fabric. (ie: rdna4 & months later rdna5 (NAVI41) specialized chiplets for truly high-end gaming)

CDNA is also remarkable Professional/Enterprise/Data/Ai architecture.
Radeon Instinct MI300x w/HBM3 memory and 10TB/s bandwidth has leading class performance. ANd uses the latest fabric and AMD IP.



Next-Gen GPUs..?
What that means is when Navi42 hits, it will be a $750 GPU for just $479. Forcing all the used 3080's, 3090's, 7800XT's, 4070's, 4080's, 7900XT's prices to drop dramatically and flood the PC Gaming market with high-end used GPU's.

AMD's mid-tier RDNA4 based cards will be PCIe5.0 and efficient, perfect for new Gaming builds. But those with older cards and older PCIe4.0 built systems, or those who just bought new 1440p monitors and need to crunch some pixels, might opt to grab up all those used high-end cards (ie $450 3080's.)


AMD's high end RDNA5 navi41 based Chiplet cards are for those looking for Professional High-End 5k Gaming. These will be Custom Chiplets using HBM3 for some truly high end gaming.

I'd imagine the top RDNA5 chiplet card to cost $1,600... and the cut down cards to ~$899

 

[nnguy2]

Tim is so far down the Nvidia rabbit hole he'd recommend a 50XX card but since he is a responsible tech journalist, he would only recommend the 5070 and nothing higher since THOSE cards are obviously overprice and anti-consumer.