Wednesday, March 19th 2025
Over 200,000 Sold Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT GPUs? AMD Says No Number was Given
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.
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To be clear, those are Sold listings. Meanwhile, at Microcenter:
... and the more expensive models are sold out, too. It's very possible, even likely, that if RTX 5000 had launched with sufficient stock we wouldn't be seeing this. But it didn't, and we are. I don't know why you so badly want AMD to fail, or to believe so.
If you want to know more, check Tim's video on it.
If you don't feel like watching the video you can read neatfeatguy's comment below, it's pretty much the same thing.
We can tell from Mindweaver's GPU stock postings that AMD cards have been selling and some restock has been happening, but that's just a small timeframe capture and we don't know for sure how many cards have come and gone since the initial launch day at MC. If I had to venture a guess, I'd say just from MC locations alone they've sold around 20K AMD GPUs. The interesting thing about MC is that you can't just go in and buy up a bunch of GPUs at once, you're limited 1 every 30 days per household (at least at my MC). This means these cards are getting distributed amongst a lot of individuals and not just to bots snagging up what they can to scalp.
What you need to remember about the 40x0 series vs the 50x0 series is that their was a longer period between card releases:
* 4090 launched first on October 12, 2022
* 4080 launched a month later on November 16, 2022
* 4070Ti launched about 6 weeks later on January 5, 2023
* 4070 launched 3 months later on April 13, 2023
Here you have 4 cards launching over the period of about 6 months.
The 50x0 series launch timeframe:
* 5090 launched January 30, 2025
* 5080 launched January 30, 2025
* 5070Ti launched a month later on February 20, 2025
* 5070 launched a couple weeks later on March 5, 2025
Here you have 4 cards launching over the period of about 1.5 months.
It's easy for Nvidia to say, "But look! We have more cards shipped on this series compared to last!" because they had these all shipped out in about a quarter of the time it took them to get the same number of cards out with the 40x0 series. This is just another marketing ploy, if you ask me. Nvidia trying to save face that they screwed up, dropped the ball and are scrambling to catch up....so what do they do, what any good PR would do to help misdirect the customers while trying to save face: Point out that they had more GPUs this time around when compared to last gen to help paint a rosy picture about the current situation.
Here's what I noticed about the launch of 40x0 cards: The 4090 was near impossible to get until almost 6 months after it launched. The 4080s sat on the shelves (at least my local Micro Center store) for weeks before they even started to sell and once they did sell they were very slow to be replaced. I didn't really care much about the 4070/Ti models to pay attention to how they sold.
They knew this was going to happen and decided not to do anything about it or inform everyone else in advance because why should they?
Stock up, shareholder happy.
The marketing department is simply tasked with trying to minimize the public backlash as much as possible and they're doing a swell job seeing people eat it at face value.
Outside of the United States, they are selling at even higher prices and still they are flying off the shelves. The only country today that still have RX 9070 XT readily available is China, mostly because it is a heavily Nvidia dominated market even more so than most other countries. Having said that, the "MSRP" cards like the Sapphire Pulse and Powercolor Reaper still occasionally go out of stock in China even though they are priced at $780.
So there is a huge demand for good value GPU's, they would need to produce at least 1 million of these GPU's in the next 2 months to match demand.
Weren't 7900XTX also heavily inflated and sold out at launch too? Lots of people hold AMD dearly in their heart.
I don't know why you think I want Radeon to fail, they are litterally at the bottom already that I think they should try to claim at least 20% of the marketshare, and selling at inflated price is not the right way to claim marketshare.
But I wonder that how many Geforce 5070 been sold?
And that is not a negative comment, companies will be some of the buyers here. Maybe some scientists (if you are being very AMD positive). Plus any Nvidia gamers that are turned off by Blackwell. They are used to much higher prices.The problem will fix itself. High prices are the solution to high prices.
Disclaimer: High being a relative term here. If you are the unlucky lonely soul to consider something high priced but no one else does, it is not a high price to the actual market.The right way to sell anything is to "barely" sell all of your product. That is the right price, to have demand just barely outstripping supply.
So if AMD is selling all of its cards at a given price, you could argue the price is perhaps too low from a market equilibrium POV. To gain market share, you need to increase production which will then overwhelm the demand at a given price. Prices will then drop until it is no longer profitable for the producer to increase any more production.
AMD did well, good, we need competition. Nvidia lied to everyone during their presentation at the CES regarding performance, that's also not really a debate. Both companies struggle with production because they favor the much more lucrative AI market. Nvidia has much more customers than AMD in the AI/Cloud space, thus less room for gamers, hence more scarcity than AMD, but both are short on stocks.
By July, everyone will have changed his outdated graphic card and the market will have stabilized. Just be patient.
AMD has been doing very well with the 9070 and 9070XT, in the US Microcenter stores have gotten significant amounts of stock, AMD shipping to physical stores that place limits so scalpers can't buy them up was a smart move. When AMD has cards in stock for much more reasonable prices, people are going to buy them and the fact they're selling out even above MSRP may mean the Nvidia mindshare is falling off as buyers get tired of overpriced GPU's and as Nvidia keeps prioritizing AI over the gaming market to the degree that they don't care about gamers at all since hardware and driver quality has suffered.It makes a lot of difference, Nvidia couldn't have possibly shipped more 50 series GPU's in the same span as when the 40 series launched, because the 4090 launched first, and the 4080 didn't ship until a month later. Don't take my word for it, read the post from @neatfeatguy explaining the 40 series launch.
If Nvidia shipped more 50 series cards then why is every reviewer saying the 50 series has been a paper launch? Where are all the cards then?I'm not even sure what you're getting at now. You're wanting to imply the 9070XT is disappointing because it doesn't beat the 5070Ti in some cherrypicked benchmarks, the point is the 5070Ti is a 4080 all over again, for the same price 2 years later.