ASRock Radeon RX 7900 XTX Phantom Gaming Drops to $960, First for a Custom Design

[btarunr]

In what could be a sign of the Radeon RX 7900 XTX dropping to sub-$1,000 price points ahead of the crucial Spring-Summer PC gaming season, the ASRock RX 7900 XTX Phantom Gaming became the first custom-design card based on the top AMD RDNA3 GPU to drop to a three-figure price of $960, which is well below the $999 baseline price AMD set for this SKU. Board partner co-branded AMD reference-design RX 7900 XTX cards in the market are currently selling below the MSRP, and the ASRock Phantom Gaming joins them as the first custom-design card around the $950-mark, with a $959 listing on American PC hardware retailer Newegg. The RX 7900 XTX is AMD's flagship graphics card, and performs competitively with the GeForce RTX 4080 in the majority of gaming graphics workloads made up of raster 3D, but falls behind on real-time ray tracing, where it performs closer to the previous-generation RTX 3090 Ti.



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[mama]

I was looking at one of these and slapping a waterblock on. Nicer now.

 

[ixi]

Nice, now 350e more to go down and I'll grab one.

 

[tetrapak]

Nice, now 350e more to go down and I'll grab one.

Same, 600-650€ is acceptable to move from ngreedia once for all.

 

[80251]

This makes me wish I had never bought a Gsync monitor.

 

[SOAREVERSOR]

Nice, now 350e more to go down and I'll grab one.

That's going to be selling it at a loss. The cost of making these things has gone up astronomically if you want cheaper cards then tell them not to improve anything and just focus on dropping the price. Look at a bare 9700pro and then look at a bare 7900xt and that's the reason for the cost raise. You want better performance and graphics? Then get ready for another price raise! You want generational improvements? Get ready for higher prices!

We kept asking for more graphics and whelp here we are!

 

[Deleted member 185088]

That's going to be selling it at a loss. The cost of making these things has gone up astronomically if you want cheaper cards then tell them not to improve anything and just focus on dropping the price. Look at a bare 9700pro and then look at a bare 7900xt and that's the reason for the cost raise. You want better performance and graphics? Then get ready for another price raise! You want generational improvements? Get ready for higher prices!

We kept asking for more graphics and whelp here we are!

The 4080 has a tiny GPU compared to the 3080, 5nm isn't double the price.

Plus generation over generation improvement wasn't impressive at all, the 4080 should have the power of the 4090.

I would argue that high prices are more due to GPUs being used for more than just gaming.

 

[LFaWolf]

Same, 600-650€ is acceptable to move from ngreedia once for all.

Oh, the irony of name calling nvidia but wanting a $350 price drop from AMD.

 

[b1k3rdude]

That's going to be selling it at a loss. The cost of making these things has gone up astronomically if you want cheaper cards then tell them not to improve anything and just focus on dropping the price. Look at a bare 9700pro and then look at a bare 7900xt and that's the reason for the cost raise. You want better performance and graphics? Then get ready for another price raise! You want generational improvements? Get ready for higher prices!

We kept asking for more graphics and whelp here we are!

Thats what the manufactures want you/me to believe, they are essentially gaslighting thier own customers. You expsect a price rise in-line with inflation, but not the willifully beligerant displays of naked greed that we have seen from nVidia and Amd with the last and current gen cards.

So no, I wont be paying £1000 for a 4080/7900XTX, when these cards on average only privide upto 45% over my 12GB-3080. The cost of which was £610, but I traded my 3070 in for that, for which I traded my 1080Ti etc etc. The 4080/7900XTX needs to drop to £700-800 and the 4090 to £1000, otherwise I have zero interest.

 

[Vayra86]

I am/was actually considering a 7900XT instead of a 6800(XT).

Saves buying myself a new PSU... net cost difference is going to be a mere 50-100 EUR, so I'd be almost crazy not to go bigger. Strange times indeed.

That deal might just come up as even better if the 7900XTX drops closer to 7900XT pricing, it'll likely take that one along down with it, might even be spending the exact same on that card as I would on a 6800XT+PSU

I'm even tempted to move to 7900XTX now
The only question I'm really pondering on now is whether to sell the 1080 for something along the lines of 175-200 eur... That'd be net total 700~750 EUR on a top end GPU... and net total of 1K EUR for the last 6 years of gaming and the next 5~6... Shit's actually looking up !

Thats what the manufactures want you/me to believe, they are essentially gaslighting thier own customers. You expsect a price rise in-line with inflation, but not the willifully beligerant displays of naked greed that we have seen from nVidia and Amd with the last and current gen cards.

Weeeell the die is big, its on a cutting edge node and utilizes state of the art technology for memory. It also performs in tune with the price, to be fair. A 1K top end GPU is nothing new, we've had those for 10 plus years now. If you ask me, the real bloodbath happens lower down the stack, where you get heavily cut down stuff with odd memory configs especially at team green, at still over or just under 1K. Its a strange world where Nvidia's only truly killer product is a 1500 dollar 4090 and to much lesser extent a 1200 dollar 4080.

Plus, Ampere is absolute shit, look at the power that 3080 guzzles in comparison. Its not even a case of getting what you pay for...

Same, 600-650€ is acceptable to move from ngreedia once for all.

And totally unrealistic. 600-650 is where you might find an 7800... probably not the XT

 

[oxrufiioxo]

I am/was actually considering a 7900XT instead of a 6800(XT).

Saves buying myself a new PSU... net cost difference is going to be a mere 50-100 EUR, so I'd be almost crazy not to go bigger. Strange times indeed.

That deal might just come up as even better if the 7900XTX drops closer to 7900XT pricing, it'll likely take that one along down with it, might even be spending the exact same on that card as I would on a 6800XT+PSU

I'm even tempted to move to 7900XTX now
The only question I'm really pondering on now is whether to sell the 1080 for something along the lines of 175-200 eur... That'd be net total 700~750 EUR on a top end GPU... and net total of 1K EUR for the last 6 years of gaming and the next 5~6... Shit's actually looking up !

I think if some of the better models of the 7900XTX get into that 850 usd range then they become a pretty good buy. The 24GB of vram should give it decent legs and for people who don't care about RT or AI upscaling it's already a better buy than the 4080 other than power consumption.