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:
As expected from previous whispers, the base RX 9070 card is priced at a relatively okayish $650, and the RX 9070 XT is priced $100 higher. However, things soon took an interesting turn, when a Sapphire Nitro+ RX 9070 XT also got listed on Amazon CA - and a curious Redditor actually managed to purchase the thing. The triple-slot, triple-fan card, was priced at a whopping $1,365 CAD, or roughly $962 - which is quite an absurd price for what the card is expected to offer. Of course, the listing was not meant to go live before official release, which was originally intended for late January before being pushed back to early March. Needless to say, it is highly likely that the Redditor's order will end up getting cancelled, or perhaps, shipped only after the official release.
Sources:
VideoCardz, VideoCardz
- 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
261 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT Listed On Amazon - One Buyer Snags a Unit
61*cduring the testEDIT: 55*c for the Gigabyte RX 9070 XT per
wccftech.com/amd-radeon-rx-9070-xt-stress-tested-furmark-performs-equivalent-to-rtx-4080-incredibly-cool-at-55c/
GPU working at 3.15 GHz in LM Studio
GPU working at 3 GHz in Starfield
- (cheapest) Arc B580 = € 319.-
- (cheapest) RX 7800 XT = € 489.-
- (cheapest) RX 7900 XT = € 743.99
- (cheapest) RX 7900 GRE = € 647.98
- (cheapest) RX 7900 XTX = € 914.99
- (cheapest) RX 9070 = not yet available
- (cheapest) RX 9070 XT = not yet available
- (cheapest) RTX 5070 = not yet available
- (cheapest) RTX 5070 TI = € 1179.-
- (cheapest) RTX 5080 = € 1503.-
- (cheapest) RTX 5090 = € 3124.-
So depending on where it's ranking (performance wise) will be in the list above, I'll expect the price to be to blend in also. If not they might have some hard times with selling them and I pretty sure AMD is well aware of that.Little footnote;
the prices above are all including local VAT and the cheapest available model of the specific types of card. If you have a preference for a specific brand and/or model it can easily increase to double that price :twitch:
I'll just wait untill there are plenty of reliable reviews and all the cards are on the table in a figure of speech ;).
I'm not a hardcore gamer (just casual on 3440 x1440 UWQHD) so this card should end up somewhere in the range that is interesting for my expectations.
However for me personally, price vs performance within a certain budget will probably be the decisive factor for an upgrade, no matter if it is camp red, green or blue.
I ordered one yesterday night and it shipped out today.
It even arrived 15 minutes or so ago...
Can't wait to see the (synthetic) benchmark results to get a general idea of it's potential and even more feedback of how it translates into everyday computing/gaming.
I hope it turns out to be a wunderful card and that you have a lot of fun with it. It will defenitly be a major upgrade from your RTX 3060 Ti.