Friday, January 10th 2025
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Pricing Leak: More Affordable Than RTX 5070?
As we reported yesterday, the Radeon RX 9070 XT appears to be all set to disrupt the mid-range gaming GPU segment, offering performance that looks truly enticing, at least if the leaked synthetic benchmarks are anything to go by. The highest-end RDNA 4 GPU is expected to handily outperform the RTX 4080 Super despite costing half as much, with comparison to its primary competitor, the RTX 5070, yet to be made.
Now, a fresh leak has seemingly hinted at how heavy the RDNA 4 GPU is going to be on its buyers' pockets. Also sourced from Chiphell, the Radeon RX 9070 XT is expected to command a price tag between $479 for AMD's reference card and roughly $549 for an AIB unit, varying based on which exact product one opts for. At that price, the Radeon RX 9070 XT easily undercuts the RTX 5070, which will start from $549, while offering 16 GB of VRAM, albeit of the older GDDR6 spec. There is hardly any doubt that the RTX GPU will come out ahead in ray tracing performance, as we already witnessed yesterday, although traditional rasterization performance will be more interesting to compare.
In a recent interview, AMD Radeon's Frank Azor has already stated that the RDNA 4 cards will be priced as "not a $300 card, but also not a $1,000 card", which frankly does not reveal much at all. He did also state that the RDNA 4 cards will attempt a mix of performance and price, similar to the RX 7800 XT and the RX 7900 GRE. All that remains to be done now, is to wait and see whether AMD's claims hold water.
Source:
HXL (@9550pro)
Now, a fresh leak has seemingly hinted at how heavy the RDNA 4 GPU is going to be on its buyers' pockets. Also sourced from Chiphell, the Radeon RX 9070 XT is expected to command a price tag between $479 for AMD's reference card and roughly $549 for an AIB unit, varying based on which exact product one opts for. At that price, the Radeon RX 9070 XT easily undercuts the RTX 5070, which will start from $549, while offering 16 GB of VRAM, albeit of the older GDDR6 spec. There is hardly any doubt that the RTX GPU will come out ahead in ray tracing performance, as we already witnessed yesterday, although traditional rasterization performance will be more interesting to compare.
89 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Pricing Leak: More Affordable Than RTX 5070?
AMD officially cancelled those a long time ago. They are focusing on clawing back market share this generation, rather than wasting their effort on flagship cards that don't scale down so well to the mass market that comprises 98% of their sales volume.
From the 4850 TPU review:
"AMD is determined to claim price/performance leadership in the $199 and $299 segments, that's where those cards are positioned. A R700 card called HD 4870 X2 will appear later this year and is supposed to fight for the performance crown."
They didn't make a monolithic flagship, instead opting to just jam two midrange GPUs together on the same board. The result of designing and optimising for the midrange market first and foremost paid off in spades, because the 4000-series knocked it out of the park!
I believe the OEMs will sell the MBAs alongside their own AIB coolers for a few months then completely switch to the AIB models thereafter. They've been doing that for years.
4080 super performance for that price seems to good to be true, just like nvidia claims about their performance on the 70 class. Suddenly nvidia and amd are all giving us late christmas gifts, seems to good to be true tbh
Don't board that hype train folks, let it leave the station without you
Nvidia's entire presentation was DLSS/Frame Gen sleight of hand tricks that actually fooled the masses. Not one raster chart.
AMD overhyped the RDNA3. But this RDNA4 launch seems oddly stoic.
This is what happens when people don't understand the corrosive effects of monopolization.
I understand that AMD stockholders want to cheerlead for whatever improves AMD's stock value. However, for those who want video gaming it get closer to the goal (a holodeck-quality experience), the monopolist stagnation + price inflation is not a recipe for cheers. And, even non-gamers have other goals, like consumer-grade AI hardware that is priced more fairly.
Someone in this thread claimed that it's silly to offer higher-end GPUs because they don't sell. That's not reality at all. They sell. The 4090's price, in fact, was inflated for a long time precisely because they were selling so well. AMD may make more money by concentrating on its enterprise business, in terms of how its wafers are allowed — as well as keeping consoles relevant via helping Nvidia set prices from the top down the stack. That may be smart business for AMD, Nvidia, Sony, and MS. It's not smart for consumers unless they like a slower pace of hardware sophistication with higher prices — the thing people complain about pseudo-communism about (ironically, enough). The problem with monopolization is that it's not capitalism; it's corporate socialism.
So we could actually see multiple AIBs making the 479USD version of the 9070 XT. Was your reference 7900 XTX branded by ASROCK priced at 999USD and looked like the AMD card manufactured by sapphire?The last time I believed PC hardware hype was Alphacool and their apex stealth metal fans... It was mostly cuz of the "tests" performed by Igor's Lab's Pascal
I'm not sure the 5070 will be the one shaking up the market either. Hardly any improvement to the core count and still 12GB of VRAM. Zero efficiency improvement and only slightly higher clocks. Whatever the 5070 offers you could have had in the 4000 series.
Sell them before this new gen makes them worthless!
Hell I'll even pay you in predictive AI generated bucks!
Now if there is a card with 1/2 the performance for 1/2 the price, that might be in my budget.