5mo ago

US retailer lists RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT starting at $649 and $749 — March 6 launch date confirmed

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XFX RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT pricing leaked

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5mo ago

US retailer lists RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT starting at $649 and $749 — March 6 launch date confirmed

www.tomshardware.com /pc-components/gpus/us-retailer-lists-rx-9070-and-rx-9070-xt-starting-at-usd649-and-usd749-march-6-launch-date-confirmed

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Nope, too expensive for a 50% bump in performance over the 6800XT 5 years later. The 6800XT MSRP translates to the newer 749 (inflation adjusted).
That's a x700 card for the price of an x800 class with an anemic performance bump given the 5y interval. If these are the real prices, AMD's market share won't budge. I suspect the leaked retailer protests were involved in this 200$ bump to the original leaked MSRP, this card at 500$ would have made the 7xxx series expensive paper weights to everyone that carries a significant stock.
The GPU market is in shambles and anti-trust regulation is not enforced at all.
- I’ll wait to see the benchmarks.
I was about to post about how that's not exactly a "leak", we've known this for a while... Then I realized, this is the RX 9070, not the RTX 5070. Go-go reading comprehension?
In reality, this just makes me more sorry that my setup won't work with an AMD GPU.
- I wish that Nvidia and AMD would use totally-different-looking GPU model numbers, the way Intel and AMD do with their CPUs.
  I've also been confused before when seeing their very-similar model names.
  EDIT: I'm also kind of guessing, from a quick glance, that the model numbers were chosen to try to exploit customer confusion, and that this is probably AMD's fault, looking at the two lines of GPUs. Looking at the timeline, in 2019, AMD chose a very-similar naming scheme...but with larger numbers. I assume that there's some percentage of customers who look at two machines, see similar name and bigger number, choose bigger number.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_graphics_processing_units
  In 2017, Nvidia had been using model names like "GeForce GT 1030". In 2018, they switched their model naming scheme to something like "RTX 2070". In 2019, AMD switched from model names like "Radeon 500" to model names like "RX 5000" -- similar prefix, larger numbers.
  
  I'm pretty sure you're right with respect to AMD. I vaguely remember Vega was when they started getting recognition as a viable competitor, but Nvidia was still coasting on goodwill from the absolutely fantastic 10 and 20-series cards. So AMD renamed to seem "better" as well.
  Nvidia's numbering was super weird, though. They had been climbing the "hundreds series" right up until the 10-series, then for some inexplicable reason decided to go to 16s? Those didn't get such a great reception, so they went straight to the "thousands series", probably to enact a "customer reset" for the new RTX line. But I half expect them to jump to a 100XX card in a couple years.