Wednesday, February 26th 2025
AMD Radeon RX 9070-series Pricing Leaks Courtesy of MicroCenter
It appears as if US computer hardware retailer MicroCenter jumped the gun and posted the pricing of AMD's upcoming Radeon RX 9070-series graphics cards. This includes both the RX 9070 and the RX 9070 XT and the company posted pricing for no less than eight different cards from ASRock, ASUS, Gigabyte, PowerColor, Sapphire and XFX. The listings have since been removed, but VideoCardz posted a screenshot of the pricing for the various cards and it's not looking for AMD, at least not based on its statement that "85% of gamers buy cards below $700", since only two out of the eight cards manages to meet AMD's statement. Admittedly, some pricing appears to be placeholders, but it's clear that AMD's partners want more than AMD's MSRP pricing for their cards.
Starting with the RX 9070 cards, ASRock comes in at US$649.99 for its Radeon RX 9070 CL Triple Fan, whereas the only other RX 9070 is the Sapphire Reaper Triple Fan which is listed at US$1,099.99, which this card quite obviously won't sell for. The cheapest RX 9070 XT is again from ASRock in the shape of the RX 9070 XT SL Triple Fan for US$699.99, which is followed by the XFX RX 9070 XT Swift Triple Fan for US$729.99. The Gigabyte and Sapphire cards are listed at US$899.99 followed by ASUS and PowerColor at US$1,049.99 and US$1,100,00 respectively, all of which appear to be placeholder pricing. Even so, at over US$700, AMD is really going to have to deliver some unexpected performance figures to be able to compete with NVIDIA this time.
Sources:
MicroCenter, via VideoCardz
Starting with the RX 9070 cards, ASRock comes in at US$649.99 for its Radeon RX 9070 CL Triple Fan, whereas the only other RX 9070 is the Sapphire Reaper Triple Fan which is listed at US$1,099.99, which this card quite obviously won't sell for. The cheapest RX 9070 XT is again from ASRock in the shape of the RX 9070 XT SL Triple Fan for US$699.99, which is followed by the XFX RX 9070 XT Swift Triple Fan for US$729.99. The Gigabyte and Sapphire cards are listed at US$899.99 followed by ASUS and PowerColor at US$1,049.99 and US$1,100,00 respectively, all of which appear to be placeholder pricing. Even so, at over US$700, AMD is really going to have to deliver some unexpected performance figures to be able to compete with NVIDIA this time.
60 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 9070-series Pricing Leaks Courtesy of MicroCenter
Intel gave us a somewhat nice entry level card (somewhat because, hard to find at MSRP and also because you need a relatively good CPU to get the most out of it) but the PC community still need a good mid-range GPU.
Do we need to place hope in Microsoft to release a "open store" XboxPC or Valve to revive desktop Steam Machine at this point ?
I'm just waiting for a decent 5080. I have no other viable upgrade path from my RX6950XT.
PROFESSIONALS DO NOT USE 4K IN PLAYING THEIR GAMES. Being a professional gamer is a job. They know what resolution they need to play. What gear and equipment to use. And it is HARD WORK.
Whether you like it or not, AMD and rightly so is known for lousy drivers and as selling second rate video card. Those are the facts. Just look at the market share.
Again If the current information is correct about pricing, AMD is going to shoot themselves in the foot again.
They might get some short term sales, until Nvidia puts the hammer down and just like for past history, AMD product stops selling.
And in the long run they will continue to lose marketshare.
$1100 from powercolor. pure partner greed.Most everything works on 3000 series.
... And plenty of great games work on embedded graphics. God knows I'd rather play UFO50 than whatever Ubisoft puts out.
I don't even bother with e/retailers in my country ever since cause the prices are completely insane and I aint paying that. 'I always do my research and only buy from legit sellers on the ~ biggest second hand market around here and so far I've had no issues with that, knocks on wood..'
But yeah, I'll wait for when these (hopefully inevitably) crawl towards the price that people were actually excited about.
Sounds like they're selling this to the 15%. The image didn't mean what most thought it meant.
At least the Asrock XT is matching the MSRP, while the XFX is only $30 over MSRP.
AMD waited to see what Nvidia did, so of course they want to charge as much as possible. We'll keep having a f*cked up GPU market unless Nvidia stops being greedy, they control the market.The 9070XT isn't released yet, and I'm too far away from a Microcenter for these prices to matter.