Wednesday, March 19th 2025
AMD Reportedly Sold Over 200,000 Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT GPUs
AMD's Radeon RX 9000 series of GPUs spent just a few days on the retail market, and they are already sold out. If you are wondering just how many have been sold, AMD has a number for you. According to the information shared at the AI PC Innovation Summit in Beijing, AMD claims that it has sold as many as 200,000 Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT graphics cards in the first wave. Current retail channels show severely constrained inventory for AMD's latest GPUs, though supply chain forecasts indicate normalization expected by early Q2. Board partners have implemented significant price premiums across their custom-designed variants, with RX 9070 XT models commanding up to $200 above AMD's reference pricing structure. While AMD has issued statements advocating for adherence to suggested retail figures, the company maintains a hands-off approach to partner pricing strategies, acknowledging the market dynamics of premium component allocation.
The initial allocation bottleneck should resolve as manufacturing capacity scales to meet demand, potentially stabilizing both availability and price points by mid-April. Yeston, one of AMD's longest-standing AIBs, has suggested that "now the supply is unstable, but we will restock every week. Please don't be frustrated if you didn't get it. The supply will become stable and continue to be available after April." However, we still don't understand how AMD is counting these sales. The company noted that the first wave has been sold, and that is likely their first shipment of Navi 48 SKU from TSMC. When TSMC ships more chips, AMD distributes them to its AIB partners for assembly. That could be the second wave. As these GPUs are ordered months in advance, AMD's AIBs are likely already shipping the next wave of GPUs to retail stores.
Update 21:00 UTC: AMD clarified for Tom's Hardware that the initial sales claim seems to be a mistake made by the original source, BenchLife. Reportedly no sales numbers were given out the event. The report page has seen seemingly deleted by BenchLife.
Source:
BenchLife.info
The initial allocation bottleneck should resolve as manufacturing capacity scales to meet demand, potentially stabilizing both availability and price points by mid-April. Yeston, one of AMD's longest-standing AIBs, has suggested that "now the supply is unstable, but we will restock every week. Please don't be frustrated if you didn't get it. The supply will become stable and continue to be available after April." However, we still don't understand how AMD is counting these sales. The company noted that the first wave has been sold, and that is likely their first shipment of Navi 48 SKU from TSMC. When TSMC ships more chips, AMD distributes them to its AIB partners for assembly. That could be the second wave. As these GPUs are ordered months in advance, AMD's AIBs are likely already shipping the next wave of GPUs to retail stores.
66 Comments on AMD Reportedly Sold Over 200,000 Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT GPUs
Looks like 3060 ti will hold for longer than expected... sad.
That's the real news. Not this daily soundbite
For AMD is a incredible launch
Either that or companies are still buying in bulk and leaving scraps for the gamers.
Poor old MSI doesn't want to sell them either. Their loss.
So this is AMDs claim. Meanwhile Nvidia claimed it has shipped twice as many RTX 50x0 cards as in same time at RTX 40x0 launch.
NVIDIA Says It Shipped Twice The RTX 50 Cards In The First Five Weeks Than RTX 40 Series
Meanwhile gamers are scratching their heads and wondering where are all these buyers and cards...
Nvidia sold their soul to AI. Nothing more need be said.
Twice as many 50 series...what a ridiculous joke.
My guess is out of those 200K, 75% were bought by scalpers, or scalping retailers.
Maybe 9060 would show a better result... But this is too low amount, to even scratch nVidia's domination. Even consisering the last has zero Blackwell cards in stock.
This situation, is not resorvable, without investing in bigger allocation.
Let's hope UDNA will come sooner, with enough binned enterprise silicon, to supply the
peasant'sgamer's graphic cards.Hmm.... Do you mean this? Looks like AMD keeps this strategy, for the last three years, or so. They've even publicly acknowledged the fact of deliberate gouging. And then, Mr. Azor twice confirmed this during launches of both RDNA3 and RDNA4.How much more people need the "evidences", and official statements, if the real suffering experience is not enough, it seems?
Best regards!
They even use GDDR6 instead of GDDR7 to ensure maximum availability. They have no excuses.
200K GPU is nice, but they will need way way more than that. The market is starving for GPU.
I still think that AMD should have made a lower end GPU SKU with another fab like Samsung to aleviate the capacity constrain. Something like a 250$ 9050. Make it in volume and not too bad and they could reclaim a lot of market share
The MSRP of $599 just helps create a positive narrative with Reviewers, pure marketing.