Despite Nvidia’s dominance of the consumer graphics card market, AMD’s 7000 series is pretty great… unless you want ray tracing. The advanced lighting techniques are where Nvidia’s cards truly shine, and AMD just can’t keep up — even at (sort of) better prices.

Typical versions of Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT will retail for $549 and $599, but factory-overclocked premium boards will cost more, says Frank Azor.

Following the launch of AMD's Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT graphics cards, some customers report that their preorders are being canceled.