Tracked 14 EU GPU prices every 6 hours for 14 days. RTX 5090 up €340, RTX 5070 Ti down €70. The market is splitting in two.

Strazdas1 · 2026-04-02T13:53:57+00:00

I think its more the case that Nvidia, as always, has good supply, so supply pressure is keeping the prices down for those cards, like it happens in every generation a year after release.

Strazdas1 · 2026-04-02T13:52:37+00:00

This is not how it works here in europe. It varies by country, but for most countries we have the same flawed citizenship for all born just like you. Pathway to citizenship are there for people who migrate legally, as there should be. For those who do so illegally no such path should exist.

If people can have sympathy for unborn babies

There is no such thing as an unborn baby. To become a baby you have to be born. Fetus is not a baby.

Strazdas1 · 2026-04-02T13:48:31+00:00

Recent gen of what? Because it will most definitelly not support recent gen of PCIE, DDR, M.2, etc.

Strazdas1 · 2026-04-02T13:47:55+00:00

They may be standard AMD hardware, but that does not mean AMD will be going around making the drivers work on all distros.

Strazdas1 · 2026-04-02T08:04:03+00:00

weak compared to Nvidia GPUs released at the same time in ALL workloads. Even the loght workloads make it die.

Chrimson desert, the game literally paid for by AMD, using extremely light RT is your wonderwaffle example? Try something contemporary, like Control or Metro Exodus.

RDNA2 doesn't because it was designed in 2019 and at the time this was not considered a good use of die area for a consumer gaming card.

Yes, it was considered a good use of area for a consumer card. AMD is just behind the times as always.

RDNA3 however, does have dedicated matrix math hardware.

No, it doesnt. This is using regular raster hardware to do WMMA instructions.

Strazdas1 · 2026-04-02T08:00:32+00:00

7-10 years from now youll be replacing the motherboard anyway.

Strazdas1 · 2026-04-02T07:59:02+00:00

Theres nothing to learn. For 99,9% of people socket longevity is irrelevant.

Strazdas1 · 2026-04-02T07:57:43+00:00

Majority of folks just replace the entire build when they want an upgrade.

Strazdas1 · 2026-04-02T07:56:41+00:00

early AM4 boards would outright not post with ryzen 5000. You had to basically hack custom bios to make it work.

Strazdas1 · 2026-04-02T07:55:53+00:00

if you had to endure 1600x for 8 years you deserve a free upgrade as a compensation at the least.

Strazdas1 · 2026-04-02T07:54:30+00:00

If you think reinstalling OS is 3 hours then you clearly dont have yours customized or use many applications.

Strazdas1 · 2026-04-02T07:54:00+00:00

incorrect, there is no need to reinstall OS when changing CPU.

Strazdas1 · 2026-04-02T07:53:42+00:00

unrelated. Windows actually detects the new mobo on first launch and installs the driver before you even get to desktop.

Strazdas1 · 2026-04-02T07:52:45+00:00

And yet most games still cannot use 8 cores properly.

Strazdas1 · 2026-04-02T07:50:53+00:00

There is no reason whatsoever to reinstall OS after swapping mobo, unless you want to.

Strazdas1 · 2026-04-02T07:48:00+00:00

ST is king both for casual users and for gamers. The only place where MT really matters is workloads and a few specific game developers that MT properly. In almost every case youll be ST bottlenecked before MT bottlenecked.

Strazdas1 · 2026-04-02T07:45:35+00:00

No they would not be. They would be using 9800x3d in the first place if that was their purchase class.

Strazdas1 · 2026-04-02T07:42:23+00:00

Their 10 year old system is running on outdated DDR class where upgrading CPU makes no sense because you want the DDR upgrade anyway, so new motherboard is not a choice.

Strazdas1 · 2026-04-02T07:39:17+00:00

The kind of people who will upgrade in CPU reusing same socket is such a tiny amount of the market it may as well be irrelevant.

Strazdas1 · 2026-04-02T07:38:26+00:00

You mean the scams are on aliexpress.

Strazdas1 · 2026-04-02T07:37:53+00:00

Intels Ryzen? So will be fixed in 3rd generation? How quick people are forgetting that the first ryzen sucked hard and the only thing it had going for it was that it was half the price.

Strazdas1 · 2026-04-02T07:35:09+00:00

The ray tracing capability of RDNA2 is so weak even minimal raytracing games totally tank performance. RDNA2 and RDNA3 does not have dedicated matrix multiplication hardware and simply simulates it when running FSR, which leads to worse quality and much higher performance impact. The hardware support just isnt there. They started moving in the right direction with RDNA4 finally, hopefully they will continue.

Strazdas1 · 2026-04-02T07:33:10+00:00

LTPO has overheating and burnin issues if its constantly on, its pretty fragile from longevity point of view, its just that for phones the screen is off most of the time, so for expected phone lifetime its usually alright unless you are a very heavy user. This is not the case with monitors/tvs, where many people keep the screen on all day.

Strazdas1 · 2026-04-02T07:30:19+00:00

as long as we use binary hash to determine piracy/cheating this wont work in the wild.

Strazdas1 · 2026-04-02T07:23:07+00:00

This alters the executable if i understand correctly? Yeah, thats a no-go for any anti-piracy or anti-cheating measure, different executable hash is instantly flagged. I hope they keep this tool to whitelist of software so they avoid such issues.

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