{"video_id":"Q5amFErh4JQ","title":"Can you even buy the RX 7900 XTX?","channel":"TechLinked","show":"TechLinked","published_at":"2023-05-05T14:53:29Z","duration_s":401,"segments":[{"start_s":0.0,"end_s":6.12,"text":"Hey, what do you call tech news that shows up three times a week and then has","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.36,"end_s":10.2,"text":"little jokes in between everything so sometimes you don't know what's real and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.04,"end_s":16.64,"text":"what's a joke? TechLinked? What do you call that? TECHLINKED? YES!","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":13.36,"end_s":18.68,"text":"AMD'S Radeon 7900 series GPUs are just","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.64,"end_s":23.56,"text":"about to hit store shelves and reviews have given us something to get a little","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.68,"end_s":28.24,"text":"excited about, but just a little. Duck. Wow! They're coming. But just a little","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":26.36,"end_s":33.12,"text":"because that's how much stock AMD is making available at launch. While the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":30.52,"end_s":37.96,"text":"7900 XTX looks like it's slightly better value for money than the RTX 4080 in","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":35.6,"end_s":42.92,"text":"raster performance, it's worse in ray tracing while being hotter and more","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":40.08,"end_s":47.04,"text":"power hungry like the 500-year-old witch I dated a while back. Check out the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":44.96,"end_s":51.16,"text":"review on Linus Tech Tips for a fuller story about the graphics card, not not","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":49.2,"end_s":56.44,"text":"the witch, but the perpetual question remains, will you even be able to get an","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":53.64,"end_s":61.52,"text":"RTX 7000 GPU at launch? Team Red has said that they're planning to ship","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":57.72,"end_s":63.6,"text":"200,000 units of the RTX 7900 series and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":61.52,"end_s":69.0,"text":"that might sound like a lot, but that's only a small fraction of the 10 million","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":65.8,"end_s":71.84,"text":"or so cards overall sold every 3 months.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":69.0,"end_s":77.12,"text":"For more perspective, the RTX 4090 sold over 100,000 cards in the weeks after","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":74.72,"end_s":80.68,"text":"launch and that's why we mock Team Green more often than Team Red on this","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":79.04,"end_s":85.56,"text":"channel. If there's a graph mapping product sales to to overall mockery","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":84.08,"end_s":91.84,"text":"allowed, it's like one to one. Did you date the witch so you could get a 7900 XTX?","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":88.68,"end_s":93.84,"text":"What do you think? Eckeo frames. Intel","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":91.84,"end_s":96.92,"text":"has indicated it's not planning to challenge the high end of the GPU market","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":95.88,"end_s":101.64,"text":"anytime soon. Cuz they can't. Which may have something to do with the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":99.84,"end_s":105.72,"text":"fact that every time AMD tries to do that, this happens. Referring to the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":103.84,"end_s":108.84,"text":"previous previous story. Team Blue is apparently going to be concentrated on","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":107.44,"end_s":112.84,"text":"the mid-range segment for the foreseeable future with Intel's head of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":110.76,"end_s":117.24,"text":"graphics Raja Koduri saying their customers want a single power connector","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":115.56,"end_s":120.44,"text":"instead of the complications that come with more powerful cards that might need","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":118.88,"end_s":123.88,"text":"more juice or connectors than their power supply can handle. Oh no, now","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":122.08,"end_s":130.44,"text":"there's two of them. It's really just about the connectors. That's the only thing. Ironically,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":126.76,"end_s":133.48,"text":"Intel's current A770 and A750 both have","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":130.44,"end_s":135.16,"text":"not one, but two PCIe power connectors,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":133.48,"end_s":138.28,"text":"although the hope is that will change in the coming years to make things a little","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":136.6,"end_s":142.08,"text":"easier on gamers. And seeing as how Intel is new to the discrete GPU market,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":140.76,"end_s":146.92,"text":"it does make sense for them to build a brand around value for money instead of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":144.6,"end_s":151.2,"text":"extreme performance with a price tag and power bill to match. Look, they can make","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":149.48,"end_s":154.68,"text":"a flagship killer GPU any day of the week, okay? It's just about market","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":152.76,"end_s":158.84,"text":"segments. Take an econ class, numbskulls. And a Canadian judge has","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":157.0,"end_s":163.6,"text":"allowed a class action lawsuit to proceed against Epic Games for the crime","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":161.44,"end_s":167.84,"text":"of knowingly designing Fortnite to be as addictive as possible, as opposed to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":166.2,"end_s":171.24,"text":"most other games, which are not addictive at all and frankly barely even","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":169.52,"end_s":175.16,"text":"fun. The aggrieved parents say their kids aren't sleeping or eating because","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":173.28,"end_s":179.56,"text":"of how much they've been playing. And they got angry when their parents tried","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":177.24,"end_s":182.64,"text":"to limit their game time by putting a lock on the computer. Honestly, sounds","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":181.76,"end_s":187.92,"text":"like the kids should be suing the parents at this point. I mean, it's just like, \"These are my video games.\"","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":186.6,"end_s":191.72,"text":"The judge in the case has said that Fortnite could have dangers associated","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":190.239,"end_s":195.36,"text":"with it, drawing parallels with the addictive nature of tobacco that the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":193.56,"end_s":199.72,"text":"industry didn't warn its consumers about. But the judge fell short of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":197.12,"end_s":203.88,"text":"describing Epic's actions as deliberate. I mean, they could have made the game","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":200.8,"end_s":205.48,"text":"addictive by accident. Like, \"Whoopsies.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":203.88,"end_s":209.4,"text":"Whoops. Whoops. Put some loot boxes in there. Ah.\" Unsurprisingly, Epic is planning to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":208.04,"end_s":215.68,"text":"fight the suit, though I wonder if they'll just pay a settlement and charge us all 5 cents more for skins. Now for","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":213.4,"end_s":219.64,"text":"Quick Bits, brought to you by MANSCAPED. Christmas, the most manly holiday of the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":217.8,"end_s":224.04,"text":"year, is right around the corner, and their new Performance Package 4.0 will","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":222.04,"end_s":228.2,"text":"make a great gift. 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There are many like them, but don't say that in front of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":251.12,"end_s":256.72,"text":"them because it's a bit rude. Twitter Blue is back to solve the impersonation","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":254.92,"end_s":260.0,"text":"issues it caused in the first place, complete with differently colored check","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":258.359,"end_s":263.88,"text":"marks for businesses, governments, and individuals who may or may not be","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":261.92,"end_s":267.0,"text":"notable. That's what my check mark says now. You're not notable? We don't know","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":265.2,"end_s":271.32,"text":"if he's notable. Maybe. Regardless, expect to pay more if you sign up on an","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":268.88,"end_s":275.24,"text":"iPhone. The price is $11 paid through the iOS App Store instead of eight bucks","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":273.56,"end_s":280.48,"text":"elsewhere because it's only right that Apple punishes their user base for not","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":277.44,"end_s":281.76,"text":"knowing better. iPhone. Doing whoops. If","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":280.48,"end_s":289.08,"text":"you're in the market for a mid-range CPU, some new benchmarks for the soon-to-be-released Core i5 13400","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":286.56,"end_s":292.6,"text":"indicate it's up to 30% faster than its predecessor. Pretty good considering","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":291.08,"end_s":297.24,"text":"we've gotten used to very incremental improvements between CPU generations. Of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":294.84,"end_s":300.6,"text":"course, this is just in Cinebench, so I'd wait until more reviews come out","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":298.72,"end_s":305.0,"text":"after launch before I fly down to California to personally shake CEO Pat","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":303.2,"end_s":310.24,"text":"Gelsinger's hand. I always do that when they make good CPUs. Hey, man. They never let me through the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":307.72,"end_s":314.88,"text":"doors. EVGA famously pulled out of the GPU market before the launch of the RTX","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":312.52,"end_s":319.4,"text":"4000 series, but you can actually get your hands on a prototype 4090 that the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":317.32,"end_s":323.76,"text":"company made. It's being auctioned off for charity on the EVGA forums with all","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":321.88,"end_s":329.24,"text":"proceeds going to St. Jude's Children's Hospital, but be prepared to pony up as","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":326.2,"end_s":331.0,"text":"the highest bid was 8300 US dollars at","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":329.24,"end_s":334.96,"text":"the time we wrote this. I know the generation of RTX cards are overpriced,","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":333.08,"end_s":340.08,"text":"but yeesh. Jeez Louise, I that's that's steep. I","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":337.72,"end_s":344.04,"text":"don't I don't know. Microsoft is finally ending all support for Windows 7.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":342.44,"end_s":348.4,"text":"Although you might already know the OS stopped getting free security updates a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":345.72,"end_s":352.36,"text":"couple years ago, the OS was so popular that Microsoft kept allowing people to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":350.04,"end_s":356.88,"text":"pay for updates. This is going away next month along with Microsoft Edge support","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":354.32,"end_s":361.04,"text":"for both 7 and 8, which is interesting considering Windows 7 still claims about","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":358.72,"end_s":364.8,"text":"10% market share worldwide. I'm sure this will go fine. And are you","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":362.52,"end_s":368.96,"text":"absolutely sick of getting nailed by lightning bolts and blue shells in Mario","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":366.68,"end_s":372.28,"text":"Kart at the worst possible time? I would if I had friends.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":370.32,"end_s":376.68,"text":"Well, the latest Mario Kart 8 update has finally added the ability to switch","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":374.16,"end_s":381.0,"text":"items on and off in versus and battle modes like you can do in Super Smash","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":378.24,"end_s":384.56,"text":"Bros, which is great. But why did it take so long? Probably because Nintendo","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":383.24,"end_s":389.8,"text":"was too busy coming up with more lawsuits they can make. They're creative. It's their passion.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":387.52,"end_s":394.04,"text":"The creative litigation. We can see this guy. My passion seeing you come back","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":392.2,"end_s":398.2,"text":"here for tech news, especially when it's the one after this one on Wednesday.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1},{"start_s":396.56,"end_s":401.4,"text":"That does the opposite of grind my gears. Mhm.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":1}],"full_text":"Hey, what do you call tech news that shows up three times a week and then has little jokes in between everything so sometimes you don't know what's real and what's a joke? TechLinked? What do you call that? TECHLINKED? YES! AMD'S Radeon 7900 series GPUs are just about to hit store shelves and reviews have given us something to get a little excited about, but just a little. Duck. Wow! They're coming. But just a little because that's how much stock AMD is making available at launch. While the 7900 XTX looks like it's slightly better value for money than the RTX 4080 in raster performance, it's worse in ray tracing while being hotter and more power hungry like the 500-year-old witch I dated a while back. Check out the review on Linus Tech Tips for a fuller story about the graphics card, not not the witch, but the perpetual question remains, will you even be able to get an RTX 7000 GPU at launch? Team Red has said that they're planning to ship 200,000 units of the RTX 7900 series and that might sound like a lot, but that's only a small fraction of the 10 million or so cards overall sold every 3 months. For more perspective, the RTX 4090 sold over 100,000 cards in the weeks after launch and that's why we mock Team Green more often than Team Red on this channel. If there's a graph mapping product sales to to overall mockery allowed, it's like one to one. Did you date the witch so you could get a 7900 XTX? What do you think? Eckeo frames. Intel has indicated it's not planning to challenge the high end of the GPU market anytime soon. Cuz they can't. Which may have something to do with the fact that every time AMD tries to do that, this happens. Referring to the previous previous story. Team Blue is apparently going to be concentrated on the mid-range segment for the foreseeable future with Intel's head of graphics Raja Koduri saying their customers want a single power connector instead of the complications that come with more powerful cards that might need more juice or connectors than their power supply can handle. Oh no, now there's two of them. It's really just about the connectors. That's the only thing. Ironically, Intel's current A770 and A750 both have not one, but two PCIe power connectors, although the hope is that will change in the coming years to make things a little easier on gamers. And seeing as how Intel is new to the discrete GPU market, it does make sense for them to build a brand around value for money instead of extreme performance with a price tag and power bill to match. Look, they can make a flagship killer GPU any day of the week, okay? It's just about market segments. Take an econ class, numbskulls. And a Canadian judge has allowed a class action lawsuit to proceed against Epic Games for the crime of knowingly designing Fortnite to be as addictive as possible, as opposed to most other games, which are not addictive at all and frankly barely even fun. The aggrieved parents say their kids aren't sleeping or eating because of how much they've been playing. And they got angry when their parents tried to limit their game time by putting a lock on the computer. Honestly, sounds like the kids should be suing the parents at this point. I mean, it's just like, \"These are my video games.\" The judge in the case has said that Fortnite could have dangers associated with it, drawing parallels with the addictive nature of tobacco that the industry didn't warn its consumers about. But the judge fell short of describing Epic's actions as deliberate. I mean, they could have made the game addictive by accident. Like, \"Whoopsies. Whoops. Whoops. Put some loot boxes in there. Ah.\" Unsurprisingly, Epic is planning to fight the suit, though I wonder if they'll just pay a settlement and charge us all 5 cents more for skins. Now for Quick Bits, brought to you by MANSCAPED. Christmas, the most manly holiday of the year, is right around the corner, and their new Performance Package 4.0 will make a great gift. It includes their waterproof and cordless Lawn Mower 4.0, their Weed Whacker ear and nose trimmer for tricky trimming, and their Crop Preserver and Crop Reviver for your deodorizing and hydration needs. For a limited time, you'll also get two free gifts, the Shed Travel Bag and the Manscaped anti-chafing boxer briefs. Don't wait. Go to manscape.com and use promo code tech for 20% off your order plus free international shipping. These are my quick bits. There are many like them, but don't say that in front of them because it's a bit rude. Twitter Blue is back to solve the impersonation issues it caused in the first place, complete with differently colored check marks for businesses, governments, and individuals who may or may not be notable. That's what my check mark says now. You're not notable? We don't know if he's notable. Maybe. Regardless, expect to pay more if you sign up on an iPhone. The price is $11 paid through the iOS App Store instead of eight bucks elsewhere because it's only right that Apple punishes their user base for not knowing better. iPhone. Doing whoops. If you're in the market for a mid-range CPU, some new benchmarks for the soon-to-be-released Core i5 13400 indicate it's up to 30% faster than its predecessor. Pretty good considering we've gotten used to very incremental improvements between CPU generations. Of course, this is just in Cinebench, so I'd wait until more reviews come out after launch before I fly down to California to personally shake CEO Pat Gelsinger's hand. I always do that when they make good CPUs. Hey, man. They never let me through the doors. EVGA famously pulled out of the GPU market before the launch of the RTX 4000 series, but you can actually get your hands on a prototype 4090 that the company made. It's being auctioned off for charity on the EVGA forums with all proceeds going to St. Jude's Children's Hospital, but be prepared to pony up as the highest bid was 8300 US dollars at the time we wrote this. I know the generation of RTX cards are overpriced, but yeesh. Jeez Louise, I that's that's steep. I don't I don't know. Microsoft is finally ending all support for Windows 7. Although you might already know the OS stopped getting free security updates a couple years ago, the OS was so popular that Microsoft kept allowing people to pay for updates. This is going away next month along with Microsoft Edge support for both 7 and 8, which is interesting considering Windows 7 still claims about 10% market share worldwide. I'm sure this will go fine. And are you absolutely sick of getting nailed by lightning bolts and blue shells in Mario Kart at the worst possible time? I would if I had friends. Well, the latest Mario Kart 8 update has finally added the ability to switch items on and off in versus and battle modes like you can do in Super Smash Bros, which is great. But why did it take so long? Probably because Nintendo was too busy coming up with more lawsuits they can make. They're creative. It's their passion. The creative litigation. We can see this guy. My passion seeing you come back here for tech news, especially when it's the one after this one on Wednesday. That does the opposite of grind my gears. Mhm."}