GPU Inflation Is So Depressing
If you could grab XFX’s QuickSilver RX 9070 OC Gaming Edition for somewhere between $589.99 and $649.99 you would get a very decent GPU that can generally beat an RTX 5070 GAMING TRIO OC. There are some titles that NVIDIA’s card wins when you bring Ray Tracing into the picture, but generally it won’t match the performance of the QuickSilver RX 9070 OC Gaming Edition. The problem is that you will currently have to pay $830 and that is simply too much. However, that price is lower than it has been since launch, when those lucky few managed to get a card at something resembling MSRP.
This particular model is worth tracking the price of, as it has quite a bit going for it. The QuickSilver RX 9070 OC Gaming Edition sports a cooler worthy of the RX 9070 XT so you have quite a bit of thermal headroom. Indeed The FPS Review were able to manually overclock the card and saw a 5.5% FPS increase versus the factory settings. As well, the cooler sports XFX’s Magnetic Wings, which let you remove the shroud’s ‘wings’ installed on the GPU and replace them with your own 3D printed versions with whatever artwork you would like.
Here’s hoping we see some rationality return to the GPU market before we all give up!