>>105679631>this card is more expensive, performs worse and has far less vram than a 2 year old 7900XTX. Actually, 9070XT is almost as fast at raster but it faster at ML/MT and is a smaller piece of silicon to boot. It is cheaper than 7900XTX at launch even with the initial scalping going on. 7900XTX came out over north of $1K shorting after it came out. It only became cheaper when etailers wanted to clear inventory out when Blackwell launch was nigh.
7900XTX's only refuge is it is equip with more VRAM.
>it is quite dramatically outperformed by a 5070ti (a roughly equivalently priced You may have double-check that. At worst, 5070Ti slightly edges it out, but they are roughly on par with each other under most settings content.
5080 and above are the only gayming SKUs are a cut above the rest.
The real take is that gayming market is upscaling and pricing most of its original demographic out. It has become a "geekier" version of Air Jordan where main customers (ironically poor-fags) are getting them as status/fiscal flexes rather than the merits of the product.