The Morning After: Buying a good graphics card is an expensive mess

It’s been a weird time to dip into graphics cards, GPUs and… another synonym for the GeForces and Radeons of this world. AMD has tried for a while to undercut NVIDIA with slightly cheaper but less capable video cards — but this time, with the Radeon 9070 and 9070 XT , it might have got the recipe right, especially in 4K and ray tracing performance. Devindra Hardawar says the $599 Radeon 9070 XT, in particular, is a solid midrange GPU with excellent support for 1440p gaming and a bit of 4K. It has better ray tracing support than before, it’s faster than the plain Radeon 9070 and it finally has AI upscaling built in too. Not to mention, NVIDIA’s similarly priced GPUs landed around the same time. It’s a good strategy — better than fighting with NVIDIA at the extreme high end of GPUs. It makes more sense for AMD to focus on cards people can actually buy — if you can. ADVERTISEMENT Advertisement It’s a good time to look closer at that too. “Buy.” Hah! The gaming PC makers and people wh ... Read full article.