Saturday, February 15th 2025

AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT Listed On Amazon - One Buyer Snags a Unit
We live in crazy times, that's for sure. We have already witnessed a plethora of listings for AMD's RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT GPUs - both set to hit shelves early next month - indicating a decent value proposition compared to NVIDIA's RTX 5070 family, if the leaks and rumors are anything to go by. More recently, as spotted by @momomo_us, Amazon briefly listed a bunch of RX 9070 and 9070 XT cards from XFX. The pricing details are as follows:
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- XFX Swift AMD Radeon RX 9070 OC - $649.99
- XFX Swift AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT - $749.99
- XFX Quicksilver AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT - $769.99
- XFX Mercury AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT OC - $819.99
- XFX Mercury AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT OC Magnetic Air Edition - $849.99
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And to confirm, the RX 9070 XT is supposed to replace the 7700XT. Yes that is the tweet where he stated $899 RNDA4 will not exist. If AMD follows its RDNA2 and 3 pricing scheme, they will not gain market share, they will probably continue to lose it. As they've not learned from their past mishaps. lol
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Different tariffs are planned, but not yet enacted. Those tariffs have nothing to do with Frank. Sorry to disappoint you. All complaints to the government.
The tariffs will make the pricing even less likely, Trump usually does what he says.
We have seen only one or two 5070Ti models at MSRP. Majority of shiny AIB models will be selling for $900-1,000. Reality check.
Why would 9070XT ever be almost twice as cheap? Complete nonsense. We don't know this. Unwarranted and ill-mannered assumption. No. 9070XT replaces 7800XT and 9070 replaces 7700XT.
When will people finally learn this once and for all? The point is that you don't know what's going to happen with prices and performance, and yet you are willing to give it a negative spin from the outset.
You, like everybody else, will simply have to wait and see for yourself, without assumptions.
9070XT inventory has been loaded for quite some time, burning cash by being a (expen$ive) storage glutton.
One month of sleeping on this market is upsetting customers, turning them away.
Two months of no driver releases means there's ZERO development and we're engaged in a price war AND storage war.
Flip a coin and guess whether or not nvidia can even get decent volume competition in the door. I know that waiting like this isn't worth it and for once I'm willing to say this entire situation is on AMD.
You don't gain popularity by dragging your feet at the retail stage, upsetting customers, upsetting retailers and upsetting disgruntled nvidia customers that want a change.
However, it's not correct to suggest generically that "AMD just prices their cards at a couple usd less". Those are not "facts". Complete BS. 7900XTX was priced $200 less than 4080. That's not "a few bucks", I am afraid. When we post generic opinions, we always run into risk of not accounting for specific products that are actually well priced and good, no matter which company release it. Sure, but none of those explains or justifies the suggestion that 9070XT should costs almost twice as cheap as 5070Ti. It's still nonsense to suggest that. Disgruntled Nvidia customers that want a change are more than welcome to pay $900 and $1,000 for shiny 5070Ti cards, if they are not able to control their infantile impulses and wait for new cards from the competitior. This behaviour says more about their personalities than about AMD. The world is not of fire. The fire is in their minds.
Based on its specs, it's a slightly upgraded 7800XT wearing a 70 / 700 series badge posing as next gen. Unless RDNA 4 is bringing a world of IPC increases, which I see no reason to believe, I would guess 5-10% improvement vs 7800 XT slotting in as a 7700 XT bracket replacement.
That's going to place it around 7900 GRE levels, not 5070 Ti which sits above the 7900 XTX. The normal 5070 will have greater memory bandwidth despite a smaller 192 bit buss, bigger increases in core counts, and more of an architectural boost (which is already showing in leaked compute benchmarks). I would expect it to decisively beat the 9070 XT.
If anyone has royally messed the entire paper launch is Nvidia, I am afraid. There's a complete meltdown in tech community, $$how with confusing communication, lack of availability, bogus MSRP, extortionately expensive cards, etc. etc. etc.
The worst launch many have seen in a decade. It's mind-boggling what they have done when nobody had ever forced them to launch at CES knowing they didn't have any meaningful volume of cards available
Absolutely disgraceful treatment of gaming community from one of the richest companies in the world. They try to copy Apple, but they can learn from them a thing or two as to how to launch a product line globally and properly.
I am quite glad that AMD didn't do the same thing. They should launch when global volume is ready and available for anyone to go to a shop and buy a card. I am afaird they are not anyone's savour. They are a business. If you need a Savour, you know where to look. DOA or not DOA, leave to buyers to decide. Does it? How did it get there? Interesting. We will come back to this discussion in two weeks. Have you ever used RDNA3 card or played games with it?
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What? Just use 16x 2GB chips to get 32GB, nothing more special.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Let me explain, a GPU has a limited space to put GDDR modules therefore there is a base number and there you can only increase them in 2 ways, put the bottom of the board with modules but heat dissipation will be problematic or use clanshell which is to put module on module, you do not increase the bus but you increase the size of capacity..... It is also problematic for heat dissipation.