Wednesday, January 15th 2025
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT & RX 9070 Custom Models In Stock at European Stores
AMD's board partners flaunted their new Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 custom models at last week's CES trade event, but no one expected to see retail units pop up anytime soon after the concluded Las Vegas showcase. Earlier today, a brave soul uploaded compelling new evidence on Team Red's subreddit—they claim that they were surprised to see the "early" delivery of Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 graphics card stock. Uploaded photos seem to show several boxed Sapphire Pulse models sitting in an Israeli computer store's stockroom. This leak has semi-ruined Sapphire's staggered Pulse-oriented marketing campaign—yesterday, a teaser image emerged via an official social media post.
Industry watcher, momomo_us, has gathered proof of GIGABYTE Radeon RX 9070 XT GAMING OC 16G and Radeon RX 9070 GAMING OC 16G model stock reaching Danish shores. According to VideoCardz, Føniks Computer's online store had at least four units available for purchase and immediate shipping (same business day). Entries for the two models have also appeared on Geizhals—this German price comparison engine lists January 24 as a market launch date. This information could be subject to change—AMD is likely still working on finalizing release window parameters. After all, recent pre-launch leaks have contained incomplete data and errors. It should be noted that NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series is set to hit international markets on January 30—is Team Red planning to pre-empt this rollout?
Sources:
Foniks Computer DK, momomo_us, VideoCardz, Geizhals DE, AMD Reddit
Industry watcher, momomo_us, has gathered proof of GIGABYTE Radeon RX 9070 XT GAMING OC 16G and Radeon RX 9070 GAMING OC 16G model stock reaching Danish shores. According to VideoCardz, Føniks Computer's online store had at least four units available for purchase and immediate shipping (same business day). Entries for the two models have also appeared on Geizhals—this German price comparison engine lists January 24 as a market launch date. This information could be subject to change—AMD is likely still working on finalizing release window parameters. After all, recent pre-launch leaks have contained incomplete data and errors. It should be noted that NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 series is set to hit international markets on January 30—is Team Red planning to pre-empt this rollout?
36 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT & RX 9070 Custom Models In Stock at European Stores
Probably waiting on the big kahuna shipments to make it to the Amazon's & Neweggs and then the launch will drop.
This also has to mean that review cards are in hand and being tested by the likes of W1z etc.
Let's hope in the end it will be a good one.
When the DKK conversion to GBP came back at £1047, I was quite shocked.
People may not like Nvidia pricing, but at least they don’t screw over their biggest fans - the early adopters - the way AMD does. Lots of people must have felt so warm and snugly after AMD cut the price of Zen5 three weeks after release.
(shh, you didn't hear it from me)
Also amds slide showing 7900XT like performance....
And I don't consider AMD lowering prices later on to be screwing over anyone, at least they lower prices which is great for anyone who has the patience to wait.
Personally, I don't see a problem with either paying a little bit more to get your hands on stuff right away, or waiting a bit to get it at a reduced price. It's all about one's priorities.
Raise price when demand is high and lower it when demand is low is a common business tactic. Air travel companies have been doing it since times immemorial.
Hopping for a repeat of the HD 4000 series. But that's wishful thinking.Intel might grab that title is AMD continues to look at Nvidia and ignore what is in their.... rear mirror.This is the typical in every PC component. SSDs on a new PCIe version start high, then slowly start getting cheaper, a new memory standard starts high and progressively goes down, but somehow people looking at Nvidia keeping the same prices for 2 years, consider it good. Well, there is only one category that loves stable pricing and that is the category of people that are in PC hardware as if this is a sport. Buying first the high end hardware, selling it 6 months before the new one comes out, getting ready to buy the next model. Stable pricing and a monopoly is like butter on their breads and they will defend that monopoly at any cost. Because if that monopoly fails, it will mean that they will have to sell their current hardware cheap and pay much more to buy their next hardware parts.
For 99% of rest of consumers, who only buy hardware when they need it, stable pricing and a monopoly is a cancer.
So far, Intel hasn't showed me anything to make me take them seriously.That's great insight into the "Nvidia forever" mindset. Well said!
I'm selling my 7900XTX and today I learned from one of the guys that was interested in buying, that my card doesn't support RT and Indiana Jones won't start on it so future games might also not. So he can buy it but for 100$ less than what I listed because if not then he can buy used 4080 that supports RT.
Nvidia market share and even more importantly mind share has got AMD in choke hold.
They would need to go all out, make a better card for every segment basically even the halo one and not 5-10%. Simply make it so that every reviewer can have no other conclusion but to say that AMD gpus is better compared to nvidia offering.
Just looking at 40 series vs 7000 though
4080 vs 7900XTX 20% more expensive but has seemingly aged better
4070ti vs 7900XT amd was actually more expensive but more vram slightly better raster but still loses in RT
4070 vs 7800XT same play book but 5 months late only to lose thunder vs the price cut 4070 and 4070 super refresh
4060 vs 7600 both trash toss them up what trash you like better.
The key difference is amd does not hold msrp giving the perception of better value even the 7900XTX/7800XT their two probably most well perceived drop a decent chunk at times during its lifetime.