This goes for closer to $290 where I live. 🤔 Not a great option unless you can't get the 5060 8GB (9060 XT is significantly more expensive than both and 9060 seems to be OEM only).
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Several 9060 XT models are $299 at Newegg right now, and one model is only $269 which is basically the same price as the RTX 5050 models. So similar price, and better performance.
Why are people still picking Nvidia anymore?
Because they've spent the last decade bribing developers to include all their proprietary shit like DLSS.
Cheapest 9060 XT (8 GB) is $400 where I live. Cheaper 5060 (8 GB) SKUs go for around $350 or so.
Keep in mind, we don't use list prices and we generally have higher prices for electronics than in the US.
Why are people still picking Nvidia anymore?
As one example, NVIDIA Optix unfortunately beats everything else for path tracing. Maybe AMD is fine for gaming, but if the goal is the most cost effective hardware for a Blender Flamenco render farm, for example, you’re stuck with NVIDIA for the moment. I’d love a better alternative, though.
AMD doesn’t even show up in this list until the end of the second page. The M3 benchmarks are encouraging, but the price for a Mac with a 80 core M3 Ultra is several grand vs $800 for a 5070 Ti with a similar score, so it isn’t exactly a compelling NVIDIA alternative at the moment.
VRAM is the main downside of NVIDIA, since larger scenes regularly exceed 8Gi and it may very well worth buying g a lower powered card to get more VRAM.