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AMD Plans Aggressive Price Competition with Radeon RX 9000 Series

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I guess their idea of agressive isn't as agressive as mine.
Did you realize that the 9070xt is a 4080-class card? It will beat the 4080 by 3% in raster and match the 4070ti in raytracing, crushing the 7900xtx.

It costs $101 more to make than the 7800xt. The pricing is VERY aggressive, on that incremental $120 of price AMD earns only $19. Its easy to put the chip sizes into a wafer cost calculator to compare 7800xt (the parent of 9070xt) and 9070xt. The chip sizes are in tech power up, n5, n4 wafers cost $18k, $20k, i assume $20 in power circuitry & cooling, and AIB and retailer margins are 12% and 5% respectively. I use industry standard 70% yields at the start of production for the 9070xt and 95% yields at the end of production for the 7800 XT.

People expecting $500 or $550 are greedy emo's (HUB on YouTube).

You should seriously consider buying at these rock bottom prices - you may not realize it but AMD is doing handsprings to deliver such a low price, its something NVidia just cant do - their chips aren't as efficient!

People refuse to realize that AMD is gaining on NVidia, but they really are. If you can find a $600 card then that is an actual 33% discount vs the $900 actual price of the 5070ti.
 
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Did you realize that the 9070xt costs $101 more to make than the 7800xt. The pricing is VERY aggressive, on that last $120 of price AMD earns only $19. Its easy to put the chip sizes into a wafer cost calculator to compare 7800xt (the parent of 9070xt) and 9070xt. The chip sizes are in tech power up, n5, n4 wafers cost $18k, $20k, i assume $20 in power circuitry & cooling, and AIB and retailer margins are 12% and 5% respectively.

You should seriously consider buying at these rock bottom prices - you may not realize it but AMD is doing handsprings to deliver such a low price, its something NVidia just cant do - their chips aren't as efficient!
N5 is actually $16000 per wafer and $20k would be n3 pricing. N4C is also cost-optimized.

I also don't think it's aggressive enough pricing and should be $550 max IMO. Would really like to know how you got your numbers, by the way.
 
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It looks like Bryan from Tech Yes City has leaked performance of the RX 9070 XT in his RTX 5070 review video at 1440p

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Looks like I might have found my new card because it seem prices here where I am located in EU will be lower than the RX 7900 XTX but a little higher than RX 7900 XT.
 
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