Friday, July 5th 2019
AMD to Slash Radeon RX 5700 "Navi" Series Prices Ahead of Launch: $399 & $349
NVIDIA attempted to torpedo the Radeon RX 5700 "Navi" series graphics card launch with the introduction of its $499 GeForce RTX 2070 Super and $399 RTX 2060 Super. AMD claimed that its upcoming Radeon RX 5700 XT outperformed the original RTX 2070, while its smaller sibling, the RX 5700 outperforms the original RTX 2060. In its E3-2019 reveal, AMD disclosed launch prices of the RX 5700 XT and the RX 5700 to be USD $449 and $379, respectively. The RTX Super launch jeopardizes this, and so, according to VideoCardz, AMD is revising its launch prices.
The Radeon RX 5700 XT now reportedly launches at just $399, while the Radeon RX 5700 is priced at $349. The RX 5700 XT is claimed to beat the original RTX 2070, while the $399 RTX 2060 Super is slower than the RTX 2070. On the other hand, the RX 5700, which was claimed to beat the $349 original RTX 2060, is now price-matched with it, unless NVIDIA comes up with price-cuts. Older reports suggested that with the advent of the RTX Super series, NVIDIA would retire the RTX 2060 and RTX 2070, after the market digests inventories left in the channel. AMD's latest move is sure to disturb that digestion.
Update Jul 6th: This has been confirmed officially by AMD here.
Source:
VideoCardz
The Radeon RX 5700 XT now reportedly launches at just $399, while the Radeon RX 5700 is priced at $349. The RX 5700 XT is claimed to beat the original RTX 2070, while the $399 RTX 2060 Super is slower than the RTX 2070. On the other hand, the RX 5700, which was claimed to beat the $349 original RTX 2060, is now price-matched with it, unless NVIDIA comes up with price-cuts. Older reports suggested that with the advent of the RTX Super series, NVIDIA would retire the RTX 2060 and RTX 2070, after the market digests inventories left in the channel. AMD's latest move is sure to disturb that digestion.
Update Jul 6th: This has been confirmed officially by AMD here.
169 Comments on AMD to Slash Radeon RX 5700 "Navi" Series Prices Ahead of Launch: $399 & $349
Definitely wouldn't get a reference blower because of the noise but it would be really interesting to see where Sapphire's Nitro lands pricewise — though it really needs to comfortably beat 2060S in most games to be viable, especially considering Nvidia's bundle of Control and Youngblood is way more attractive than 3 months of game pass, and that's without that continuing conversation about whether a ticket for some basic DXR @1080p is worth it.
And, I hate to break it to some people, but that magic 260$ vega56 doesn't exist in many markets. Here in Russia even the Airboost is hovering around 310-320$ while 1660ti and 2060 are often available below their msrp at 265$ and 330$ respectively for Palit's single-cooler SKUs.
Yay better pricing! Win for us consumers!
Meanwhile here is what a tool says:
Thanks.
No one's forcing you to buy them. X470 exists and works.
Then there are consumers who want cheaper AMD cards, to buy cheaper nVidia cards. Those are welcome to vote with their wallet instead, or bend over again, whatever works best.
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DX12 software requires mGPU support to be built into the code. If the developer won't support it, then there is little you can do.
directx 12 and vulkan have several multi card modes, some games like ashes singularity use one of them but it's the wrong one they are using, so far I think no game uses the one mode that is important :x
That's a vicious cycle they need to break, can't continue trying to simply catch up, who here remembers when they would be the ones pulling the rug from under Nvidia with cards that defied what people could expect for their price bracket?
Cards like the 9700 Pro, the X800XT, the 7970, and the 290X, those were all faster than the best Nvidia had at the time, and at reasonable prices.
I know it's not easy to come up with an architectural change that can be revolutionary, with graphic cards being such complex beasts, but settling for 2nd best will always hurt the bottom line.
They have to aim straight to the top, and sink Nvidia's flagship, remember when the R9 290X was released for almost half the price as a Titan? I sure as hell remember, that was a day one purchase for me, and actually the last AMD cards I ever bought.
They need to find that mojo again, or we'll be caught up in this never ending cycle of paying crazy high prices for top of the line Nvidia cards because there's nothing to compete with them.
And yes, I know I sunk over $1.3k for my Nvidia card, but I would've happily paid less than that if AMD had anything that offered the same or higher level of performance like they did in the past.
Make it happen again AMD, and you'll win me and a hell lot more costumers over again, bring back the glory days of great Ati and great AMD cards.
Good GPU needs good GPU design talent as well as healthy R&D budget. It will happen in the future. RDNA is a good direction. You just need to wait.
...your argument doesn't really hold up. If you get a turd in a box with compliments from AMD, that doesn't mean you got a deal on your GPU at MSRP. It means you got a turd in a box that isn't worth...
No, bundles do not make up for higher MSRP's. If you want AMD to go out of business in GPU's, keep arguing for them not to beat the price of the competition that's ahead in the gimmicks and close enough to the same in performance to make the gimmicks matter again. AMD's the guy coming late to the party. Of course, he's got to lose some money to get back in the groove...
What's next, Nvidia? Some sanity perhaps? Now thát would be SUPER. I don't know about those bundles man, I never managed to buy dinner with them or pay rent. And mommy taught me not to take candy from strangers, especially if its free :laugh:
That said, you're not wrong about this! This is actually how it works in most people's minds. People do buy the cheapest product that gives the highest performance/does the job best. That explains the current market share very well, and its good to recognize that. Its unfortunately a vicious cycle half the internet warned them for when they told us they were going to 'dominate the midrange' with Polaris... and I think they really knew this was going to happen, GPU division had to keep running and it had to cost as little as possible. This is the result.