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
242 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT Listed On Amazon - One Buyer Snags a Unit
But you have to agree with me that you are a very small minority. Unfortunately AMD just prices their cards at a couple usd less and you'll stay a minority until they change that. Those are the facts.
It's really baffling - but then again, Sony, of all companies, known or rather meme'd into being oh so amazing for SP games, once wanted to shove out 10 live service games - so really, anything and everything stupid is possible and WILL occur.
Screw long terms goals and having more than goldfish memory.
Nvidia has an effective monopoly, so the "what we need to do" is quite different than, apparently, what the stock market thinks AMD should do - also, apparently, deluded fanboys.
If I use a 100w type c charger plugged into the USB port, the power budget is only 30w, split between cpu and igpu. With the 135w charger, the budget is 54w. Might not seem alot but that 24w differnce is 1+ghz on the cpu. It helps with older titles that are single core games.
Firstly, since US/NA is the primary market for all HW manufacturers, and the market accepts US MSRP as a starting point, (outside the EU, ofc). If it goes up in price there, every country that uses $, will get it as well.
Secondly, if US would manage to buy the less HW, due to tarrifs, the HW manufacturers would most likely try to "compensate" the "lack" of profits, not by selling more, but rather by jacking up price, for each single item sold.
OEM's drive lion's share of the market (70-90%). And OEMs do this:
www.notebookcheck.net/Unequal-treatment-How-Lenovo-makes-the-AMD-variant-of-the-ThinkPad-P14s-Gen-5-worse.952104.0.html
And this:
And this:
Amd/comments/amaflm
And that's Intel. The Filthy Green is way way way way worse at strongarming dependent partners.
Christmas is a real day in calendar since almost two thousand years, irrespective of whether you believe in it or not. Thank you.
That a face which looks stupid on the coverpage of a video motivates the customer to click the video. Most videos are made that way. Something like why he looks that way or this way ...
Maybe someone knows the details. What that effect is called and such.okday you plug it into a micro usb port of a android tablet, right? Why do you need 100 Watts or 135 Watts. (I hope you get the point it lacks informations)
If you need that in order to watch something, and if you want to cater to that type of people, it's just two sides of the same coin, and it's not flattering for either one or the content
It's fine if you are making cat content, not tech content in my opinion
are many people who have 0 interes of more than 120 fps
In many countries AMD have better price than nvidia
Not like dlss, ray tracing,etc
What makes you think, or hope, that 5070Ti prices would be any better?
Nothing is available so the moment anything drops, it gets scalped all to hell.
6950XTs all MIA but 6900XT now 2-4x old refurb prices. Look at this bullshit:
Guys, just don't buy GPUs in February. It's bad for business and further encourages this garbage.
I understand if you found something $50-100 for production but this is a different class entirely.
There will still be signs of it in March but if the inventory is high enough, it won't be a problem.
It is kind of frozen in time right now, which is good b/c you can see what the pricing was just before the supply dried up.
To give an example of how bad it is right now, the 7800 XT listed here at $489 links to a product that costs $812.
Edit: I should add, even the 'current price' here seems about 5%-10% elevated from where it was in say December. I base that on the 7800 XT which I had been eyeing, could fairly easily be found for $450 with sometimes a special down to $400-$430. So by Jan, best price was ~10% higher.
I'm posting both their AMD and Nvidia charts for reference.