AMD RX 7900 may face shortages in China due to RTX 4090 ban Chinese gamers looking for cheaper alternatives. Recently, there were rumors that the Radeon RX 7900 graphics card series may be banned in China, following the ban on the RTX 4090 GPU from NVIDIA. The rumors weren’t backed up by any official data […]
In my country, the 7900 xtx costs $1000. Meanwhile the cheapest RTX 4090 costs $2000. And you’re telling me for double the price you get only 10% extra performance? LOL NVidia are the biggest scammers and I’m jumping to AMD only for my next build. The “but AMD DRIVERZZZ” meme needs to stop.
Yeah it’s about this now in EU, 1850~ or more for cheapest 4090s and XTX can be had around 1k or less (1100 for the Sapphire Nitro at most). Value is absolutely not worth it so I expect more 7900xtx sales as a result of this. I’d rather spend that extra on a big OLED or more ram/ssd/etc.
As a 6800XT user for the past 2.5 years, I just can’t recommend this to a friend, without a massive asterisk. Drivers needed a long time to mature (in before people mention; yes - RAM tested fine, BIOS got updated, etc. basic stuff), so that they finally allowed me to just start my PC, play some games and repeat that the next day, without having to reinstall the drivers, rollback to older versions, etc. I took all that for granted with my nVidia cards, it wasn’t so simple with a Radeon.
I still remember getting constant driver timeouts in 2021 while trying to play Mafia 1 DE - the first “good” driver for me was the FSR 1.0 release driver, seemed to fix a ton of issues in general. It also happened with many other games, but after that driver update - most games started to work well. A major quality of life improvement! It shouldn’t have taken so long to happen, though.
This is also why AMD’s cards need to be noticeably cheaper - the AMD Jank.