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The Morning After: Buying a good graphics card is an expensive mess
The biggest news stories this morning: AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT review, Volkswagen previews its €20,000 EV for everyone, House Republicans subpoena Google over alleged censorship.
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’s like Taylor Swift tickets or a PS5 disc drive when the PS5 Pro broke cover — it’s scalpers and opportunism from the middle-man companies that make the majority of GPUs out there.
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