Article is a bit old but still relevant and how gamers are being screwed.

  • ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    If you show up in person it was not, but the resale market and board partners kind of screwed this up.

    AMD and Intel both need to be launching FEs and pushing the price down and making these board partners look bad.

      • dubyakay@lemmy.ca
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        13 days ago

        Recent reference cards for AMD were actually built by Sapphire from what I was told.

        So the Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT was their reference card basically. And it acts like that, a very solid card.

        • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          13 days ago

          Sapphire has been building/designing their reference cards for a long ass time.

          AMD’s website has a picture of what I assume is the reference 9070 and sapphires pulse looks pretty different.

          I wish they’d bring back the reference cards. They look so much better than the aftermarket ones, even if the coolers are usually some of the worst.