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AMD Radeon RX 9070-series GPU supply to stabilize after April claims AIB partner Yeston They can fix it by injecting more supply, or die trying. Part of the problem is that the market leader, Nvidia, is shipping very few cards. This kind of situation can be a thing of the past if the AI bubble bursts. Which probably won't be as dramatic as a crypto bubble burst, but many companies could decide that the hype is overrated and pull back on their purchasing of hardware or services.
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I'd say the 9070 XT is very close to the 5070 Ti (raster), not directly between the 5070 and 5070 Ti. Like the 5070 Ti is around 3% ahead based on Tom's Hardware's review. In particular, the 9070 XT seems to overperform a little at 4K, with the 5070 Ti only being 2% ahead, and I think other reviews have shown this. Then the 9070 non-XT is generally ahead of the 5070, also with more VRAM. Which can actually get it an unexpected raytracing win (forgot which game, Indiana Jones?) where the 5070 runs out of VRAM. On top of that, both cards can overclock pretty well, which has led to rumors of some kind of 9080 XT coming later (with or without 32 GB). But more importantly, the 9070 non-XT has amazing headroom since the suggested TDP/TBP is 84 Watts lower than the XT (220W vs. 304W). So as street pricing forces the two cards to have a much larger than $50 gap between them, the non-XT can look much better.
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If you believe that, time to hoard cheap computers and parts. Especially since Win10 machines are deprecated and being thrown away this year.
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Golden Light 100% off on Steam Free to keep when you get it before Feb 24 @ 1:00pm. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1245430/Golden_Light/
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The last 48 hours is the first time many have heard of Prime Gaming because of this doing the rounds: https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/amazon-apparently-thought-it-was-gonna-compete-with-steam-since-the-orange-box-but-prime-gamings-former-vp-admits-that-gamers-already-had-the-solution-to-their-problems/ https://hothardware.com/news/amazons-losing-war-with-steam
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They had them in January: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/amd-denies-9070-xt-leaked-prices-usd899-usd-starting-price-point-was-never-part-of-the-plan This is definitely a chaotic launch, but it could ultimately help AMD if they get their drivers ironed out using the extra time, have lots of stock availability, and have a clear plan of how to price against Nvidia (although it looks like they will price higher than we'd want).
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These sites are basically abandonware pirate sites, definitely infringement, and are only "free games" in that sense. Not that I care, I used them to play a few side scrollers, and even CD games like Shivers. Bandwidth is so cheap these days that nobody cares if you effectively download a several hundred megabyte CD and throw it away repeatedly. If games seem slow, try Ctrl+F12, the increase cycles shortcut. You probably won't see an indicator like you would get in an actual DOSBox window, but you'll feel the difference or not. https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Performance
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Tales Beyond The Tomb - Pineville Night Stalker https://slickdeals.net/f/18073267-tales-beyond-the-tomb-pineville-night-stalker-episode-1-pc-digital-game-free https://store.steampowered.com/app/3288180/Tales_Beyond_The_Tomb__Pineville_Night_Stalker/
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The RTX 5090 is generally a disappointment. It's showing the limitations of being stuck on what is virtually the same node. https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5090-review Meanwhile the initial RDNA4 launch (9070 XT + 9070) is delayed to at least late March.
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There's no way to be sure. First impressions seem like Battlemage's drivers are much better than Alchemist's, but there are still some weird issues. You are still going to have a problem on systems that don't support resizable BAR. I don't know that it improves support for games using older versions of DirectX. It's unclear if Intel dGPUs will be well supported years from now, certainly they could exit the market and refocus their efforts on iGPUs. There's reasons why it's cheap.
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You should see this, Cyberpunk 2077 was part of the marketing for both the 4090 and the 5090: https://hardforum.com/threads/rtx-5090-actual-performance-improvement-6-fps-in-cyberpunk.2039096/
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For people doing AI work or game streaming as a job, an RTX 5090 could be a business expense, and they'll make back every dollar spent on it. They might be able to write it off on their taxes too. The 32 GB of VRAM is most likely to benefit AI workloads. If you're a gamer buying it, it could be an unexpectedly low performance boost over the 4090 despite the specs, and allow you to play the latest slop games at 4K 165 Hz or whatever. But plenty of people pay more than $2k (+ electricity costs) on their hobbies, so enjoy it I guess.
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https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/rtx-5090-founders-edition-is-the-only-sku-that-meets-nvidia-sff-ready-requirements
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Nvidia Nvidia announces RTX 5090 for $1,999, 5070 for $549 — plus AI, DLSS 4, and more Nvidia DLSS 4 is the magic bullet behind the RTX 50-series' touted 2X performance — Reflex 2, Multi Frame Gen AI tools come to the fore Jensen says DLSS 4 'predicts the future' to increase framerates without introducing latency (Updated: Nope) RTX 5090 Founders Edition is the only SKU that meets Nvidia SFF-Ready requirements Nvidia introduces RTX 5090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5070 laptop GPUs — RTX 50 Blackwell goes mobile with up to 24GB of GDDR7 memory AMD CPUs/APUs AMD’s beastly ‘Strix Halo’ Ryzen AI Max+ debuts with radical new memory tech to feed RDNA 3.5 graphics and Zen 5 CPU cores AMD launches Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D, claims 20% faster gaming performance than Intel’s flagship Arrow Lake processors AMD Launches ‘Fire Range’ HX3D mobile processor with game-boosting 3D V-Cache, other HX Series SKUs built on Zen 5 desktop CPU silicon AMD launches Ryzen AI 300 and 200 series chips for laptops AMD announces Ryzen Z2 series processors for handhelds — more performance, better efficiency, coming soon AMD quietly introduces Ryzen 5 9600 — non-X variant brings back Wraith Stealth cooler AMD GPUs AMD RDNA 4 Radeon RX 9000-series GPUs revealed: Targeting mainstream price and performance with improved AI and ray tracing AMD's first RDNA 4 GPU die pictured: Navi 48 around 390 mm2, targeting mainstream gamers Radeon RX 9070 GPU preorders are seemingly scheduled for January 23 — Asus RTX 9070 and RX 9070 XT show up at US retailer, but pricing remains unknown Radeon RX 9070 RDNA 4 GPU purportedly performs similar to RTX 4080 Super in CoD Black Ops 6
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Looks like the last daily one is going to be Kingdom Come: Deliverance, a game I bought on GOG (Royal Edition?) but have not played. https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/free-games https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/kingdom-come-deliverance
