Isn't it weird that there has been zero news aside from the 9070 and 9070XT from AMD's side? While the 9070XT looks like it's shaping up to be a stellar release, I'm more concerned about the lower end
Update:
The press conference might be happening in late Feb now instead of March
They have also said that this time the focus will be on FSR4 and optimization.
GPUs in the sub 20-25k bracket. Aside from the RX 6600 and the RTX 3050, there's just been nothing new announced in that 15-25k price range.
Well there was the launch of the B570 and the B580 but intel weren't really prepared with enough stock and that is why they haven't been able to reach here either. Also when entering that price bracket it is usually better to go used in terms of value which a lot of people are doing.
hope that the new generation gets us 7700XT performance at close to 30k
That is probably going to be the case with the 9060 and it might even cost less around 25-28k to compete with the B580 pricing.
I can't help wondering whether the budget GPU market has been all but relegated to last gen gpus at this point.
See the problem with the market is that Nvidia basically owns the market, they also work with the game developers directly and also sponsor them and in doing that they also force them to implement their technologies such as DLSS or Frame Gen and making them rely on these things to make their game look somewhat decent and play relatively okay, they have also been caught doing such things in the past as well. Due to this other companies like AMD and Intel have to follow suit such as with ML base upscaling or Frame Gen in order to somewhat compete and in the middle of it all this causes the pre existing hardware which cannot run these hardware assisted software technologies to become obsolete and hence more money for Jensen's shiny jacket.
Until and unless the competition innovates nothing is going to change AMD was on an alright path with their software based upscaling solution which only failed due to borked implementation by the Nvidia sponsored titles like BM:Wukong, Cyberpunk or Stalker 2, whereas in games with proper implementation it didn't look bad at all like in Ghost of Tsushima. But they had to throw it all away in order to sort of compete or at least make it look like they are competing with Nvidia. AMD each generation released 2nd class hardware which is unoptimized and buggy for the people who can't afford the more expensive Nvidia counterparts and tout it as just as good but it just isn't.
AMD's graphic manufacturing division doesn't rely on selling consumer GPUs but on their console business with Sony and Microsoft, this has actually even been admitted by Lisa Su herself and can be seen in their sales and profit figures, and this is the only reason why they have been able to keep their GPU division alive till now and that is why we don't ever see them leading in with new technologies cause most of the software side on which games are made is locked down by Nvidia's proprietary technologies already and they don't want to dump money into research which will ultimately be a failure.
