5070 cards available below £550 in in the UK

[Assimilator]

I pulled the trigger on a £540 5070 on Sunday, because with the tariff insanity there's no chance that GPUs are going to become more affordable anytime soon.

As for AMD and their bait-and-switch pricing, they can go jump.

 

[mb194dc]

Shouldn't the tarrifs mean more supply for markets that don't have tarrifs, like the UK. If you want to ship a container of GPUs from China to UK, what's changed? Same for Canada?

People in US will buy electronics on holiday and take them home, or just drive to Canada and back.

 

[Assimilator]

Shouldn't the tarrifs mean more supply for markets that don't have tarrifs, like the UK. If you want to ship a container of GPUs from China to UK, what's changed? Same for Canada?

US tariffs on Chinese imports make it more expensive for Chinese companies to produce goods in general, because their largest market is the USA. But at the same time because their largest market is the USA, none of those companies want to piss off US customers with higher prices. So instead they spread the tariff cost over all nations they operate in, such that everyone's price goes up by the same amount. Essentially, other nations are now subsidising the USA.

 

[mb194dc]

US tariffs on Chinese imports make it more expensive for Chinese companies to produce goods in general, because their largest market is the USA. But at the same time because their largest market is the USA, none of those companies want to piss off US customers with higher prices. So instead they spread the tariff cost over all nations they operate in, such that everyone's price goes up by the same amount. Essentially, other nations are now subsidising the USA.

I'll be very surprised if that happens. Less total sales is going to mean lower prices, outside the US of course.

Plus there's likely to be a significant global recession and GPUs aren't exactly a necessity...

Plus on that, there's still no decent use cases for all the data center chips. The collapse in confidence likely means way lower sales there too. So tsmc going to end up with massive extra capacity...

All points to a bust of epic proportions in the global GPU market...

 

[Bomby569]

US tariffs on Chinese imports make it more expensive for Chinese companies to produce goods in general, because their largest market is the USA. But at the same time because their largest market is the USA, none of those companies want to piss off US customers with higher prices. So instead they spread the tariff cost over all nations they operate in, such that everyone's price goes up by the same amount. Essentially, other nations are now subsidising the USA.

By that logic their largest market is not the US, their largest market is literally everyone else outside the US. And with this tariffs is safe to assume their US market has just diminished, people that would by a 9060 will only afford a 9050
Pissing the Americans at this point is irrelevant, next Monday tariffs could be 200% or 0%, better make plans and friends with everyone else and don't piss those that will still afford their stuff.

Called it last week.

I like my 9070 but AMD definitely fooled the market with this release. The current prices we're seeing are closer to what they wanted.

As for the 5070, stock on the sub £550 cards is drying up for now. Overclockers only has £599+ models left. I suspect the Scan models will be bought by the end of the week.

like with many things in this timeline we're on, nothing makes sense anymore.
The 5070 seemed to be available and cheaper because no one wanted one, but if it becomes cheaper and AMD is pulling a MSRP scam, then people will buy the 5070
The sky is down and the ground is up, and everyone is going crazy.