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:
Sources:
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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
242 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT Listed On Amazon - One Buyer Snags a Unit
From over 900 euros to as low as 641, while staying under 700 euros.
For a little over 800 euros, down for a moment to 662(this could be a fake price for one day from a small shop trying to gather attention) and then jumping over 950 euros.
I can find examples that favor your argument.
The thing is that, with prices of next series going up, current series see also a price increase. That's why I say that the market is chaotic.
But Nvidia cards where retaining their value for longer and that was the norm for many years and that was always a strong reason for many to choose to pay more for an Nvidia card. They knew that they would get a high return price when selling that card in the second hand market. On the other hand AMD cards are cheaper to buy, but because they usually lose value over time, because of AMD having a habit of lowering prices slowly, they return lower value when sold in second hand market.
It's not just a baseless "I think" and you should understand that people who don't start their post with a "I am 200% sure that Earth is flat", it's not because they don't have arguments or they are uncertain of those arguments.
Now, about those elephants that can fly, you don't mean Dumbo, are you? :p (I am only kidding here)
don't compare different things when you can make a better comparison. There is no need to and i quote "find examples that favor your argument" like you are doing.
I see about the same low prices and average prices ever since day one, am i not seeing right?
4070 Ti had an MSRP of $800 and the lowest the average price gone was $750 before going up again.
So 7900XT gone down $150 on average and 4070 Ti gone down $50 on average.
Also the 4070 Ti seems to have a higher price increase compared to the 7090XT.
So, do you really post something different with those graphs compared to what I am saying?
i also already told you and showed that what you said in the beginning was wrong, i have nothing to add.
Sadly, ordinary "peasant" buyers are yet left off-board, with just crisps crumbles from the Business "Master's" table. And this is only getting worse with each generation.
But alas, there' no competition. And AMD is so reckless, that they are risking their entire RTG division left in shatters by the community. The mindless bots, on the other hand, will buy at whatever price, furtherly dooming the market. This is Zug-Zwang for "gamers" and usual buyer.
edit: nm i guess it does come down to AI cores not being present. eh.
The 3070 suffered quite fast the 8GB VRAM curse which I saw quite early before anyone wrote about that.
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I was curious a few hours ago about that 4070 TI. Then I remembered something and checked again. (Benchmark also show this claim)
I think the 4070 ti was the "unlaunched" 4080 with 12GB VRAM. It's basically a 4080 card with low VRAM.
If the buyer is happy with 12GB VRAM, why not. Personally I would not compare 12GB limited card to a proper AMD card in the long run.
www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-4070-ti.c3950
For short term after the cards are released and bought those 12GB VRAM for the nvidia 4070 ti, 8GB VRAM nvidia 3070 will not really matter. I would not bet on that low VRAM when you intend to keep it longer as 2 years. Yes we saw that with the NVIDIA 3070. of course? or am i wrong and those were sold quite fast because of low vram?
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The high asking price of newer graphic cards will lead to higher second hand prices for certain not so old graphic cards. I'm not talking about the entry level segment for 720p playing which now intel is the 3rd graphic card player. I would be really, really surprised when AMD and NVIDIA will drop their prices for good will on their new products. That they will sell the same performance cards cheaper as their previous cards.
or maybe this is just a paper launch and they will raise the price on the 5070 too.
Just a rhetorical question, this is just nuts and i can only laugh at the fact that is not Covid or Crypto crisis and they are bumping the prices like none cares.
"We're focusing on mainstream products with RDNA4; Expect 7900XT performance for the cost of a [$499] 7800XT"
So its subjective
And then ppls cry when its more than MSRP If u want better colors just go and buy Oled monitor..
Also whit Nvdia u can use higher settings vs Slow Amd gpus.
The saddest part of this all GPU pricing and scarsity "issue" (disastet), is that both nVidia and AMD, are not "testing waters" anymore. They did that during Turing/Ampere, RDNA1/2. Now they openly and deliberately push their will and narratives upon consumer market. The reason why Intel isn't just there- they have no control yet. They will, as soon as they'll get the tinniest grasp. This is going to be triopoly, if Intel is gonna survive.
5070 is going to be unabtanium as a FE, and the AIB will sell at $900-1500 ($150-$300 markup, minimum), by resellers and big stores like Amazon, NewEgg and others. And there might be much more of those NPC buyers, who will be ready to camp near the stores for a week+.
Also, Sapphire lately, has begun to set their pricing unreasonably high, while still loosing at quality, to even other AMD partners. So $100 markup is a bit of "cheap"
I wish all forum participants the same ;)