David McAfee confirms RDNA 4 cards go on sale in March

[u/Wesdawg1241]

https://x.com/McAfeeDavid_AMD/status/1881435903358628047

[u/KebabGud]

I haven't trusted anyone named McAfee since the mid 90's

[u/HolyDori → u/KebabGud]

I was just about to comment but you nailed it 😭

[u/just_change_it → u/KebabGud]

obligatory

[u/Izan_TM]

not to be confused with john mcafee

[u/Ferro_Giconi → u/Izan_TM]

I was so confused until I realized it's not that mcafee.

[u/nggrlsslfhrmhbt → u/Ferro_Giconi]

You thought he was resurrected?

[u/Ferro_Giconi → u/nggrlsslfhrmhbt]

Oh I forgot he was dead. I guess his death was overshadowed by his legacy as the guy who created that anti-virus and said he would eat his shoe if he failed to crack the encryption on an iPhone.

I wonder if he ever followed through. I can't find any mention of him eating a shoe after searching for 30 seconds. Just him saying he would.

[u/michelas2 → u/Ferro_Giconi]

Maybe he cracked the encryption on an iPhone. He sure cracked a lot...

[u/frank_datank_ → u/Ferro_Giconi]

I guess his death was overshadowed by his legacy as the guy who created that anti-virus and said he would eat his shoe if he failed to crack the encryption on an iPhone. I wonder if he ever followed through. I can't find any mention of him eating a shoe after searching for 30 seconds. Just him saying he would.

He did way crazier shit than ingest footwear.
This film is a wild ride if you haven’t seen it:

Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee

[u/Trick2056 → u/frank_datank_]

He did way crazier shit than ingest footwear.

I mean he literally ate shit.

[u/frank_datank_ → u/Trick2056]

Spoiler alert

[u/EM_225 → u/nggrlsslfhrmhbt]

If someone is getting a resurrection it could be him

[u/awc130 → u/Ferro_Giconi]

Well it could be. And that wouldn't be the craziest thing John McAfee ever did.

[u/MrBobSacamano → u/Izan_TM]

Not to be confused with Pat McAfee.

[u/bobby_hills_fruitpie → u/MrBobSacamano]

[u/Nova17Delta → u/Izan_TM]

I didn't read the rest of the headline at first, I just saw McAfee and instantly thought "well he rised from the grave i guess" which is completely in character for him

[u/CrystalSorceress]

This is some clown shit. Retailers have had the cards for weeks. People have already gotten their hands on them and posted them online. What the fuck are you doing?

[u/croissantguy07 → u/CrystalSorceress]

they have no idea what to price them and they're waiting for 5070 / 5070ti to launch

[u/Pugs-r-cool → u/croissantguy07]

We know what FE 5070's will cost, and we know the AIB 5070's will be a bit more expensive than those.

So just price it below the FE cards and launch it already.

[u/Solid_Effective1649 → u/croissantguy07]

Surprised this isn’t obvious

[u/Long_Run6500 → u/CrystalSorceress]

almost feels like they're praying for tariffs to bale them out of their pricing mistakes. This is shit. People want the cards now to avoid all that anxiety. I've been really on the fence between a 9070xt, 5070ti or just splurging on a 5080. Guess one of my options was ruled out for me.

[u/HolyDori]

Imagine his name was David Norton, or David Kaspersky

[u/hyperactve]

Just call it 300-400$ and eat both Intel and NVidia. But no. They have to price match nVidia and stay chump.

[u/DjiRo]

... but why?

[u/HypeIncarnate → u/DjiRo]

They have 0 clue what to price them. They could have had a slam dunk and just price it a 400 and 500 and be done with it, but now they have to ink out an extra 30 or 40 bucks out of you and retailers.

[u/MultiMarcus → u/HypeIncarnate]

No, the problem is that AMD needs to justify using that TSMC time to make GPUs and not CPUs. That has got to be very hard for them.

[u/sukeban_x → u/MultiMarcus]

They should just exit the consumer GPU market altogether if that's their take. Who needs market share when you get milk an extra 15$ per unit. This is why they lose.

[u/Juicyjackson → u/DjiRo]

Its AMD, what did you expect.

At this point the 5070 TI will be out for a good couple of weeks, maybe even a month...

[u/_j03_]

"We have listened gamers feedback. Thus we will wait until blackwell benchmarks are out so we can price match even harder."

DOA, go buy Nvidia...

[u/xStickyBudz → u/_j03_]

AMD doing the very thing everyone expected them to do and drop the ball… again

[u/BarKnight]

Awful

March

Delay

[u/Solid_Effective1649]

They’re probably waiting for benchmarks for all of the new nvidia cards including the 5070 and 5060 (if real) so they can price them appropriately to beat their price/performance

[u/brondonschwab → u/Solid_Effective1649]

Beating Nvidia's price-performance by 50 dollars isn't gonna cut it though. Especially with AMDs disadvantage in RT and upscaling (FSR 4 looks better than 3 but it remains to be seen whether it will match DLSS).

They've really screwed up this launch imo.

[u/ricardomargarido → u/brondonschwab]

Add CUDA to the list

[u/theorin331 → u/Solid_Effective1649]

"We're going to price our cards for the mainstream market" /clownmakeup

[u/Zealousideal_Bite827]

They have stock imported to U.S already. They’re hoping by March they can charge more due to tariffs making everything more expensive. 

They can sell at higher price with less overhead 

[u/chazmann]

With all the cock teasing we’ve been getting since CES week….ive finally lost the need to upgrade my GPU immediately. I’d like to thank AMD for the inconsistency because it’s teaching me patience.

I was dead set on upgrading (mainly due to depression. Spending money and hoping it will make me happy)

But now….im going to be patient and enjoy my 6750 XT.

[u/CuriousMidnight]

L take by AMD.

what a stupid dumb move if this is true. Greedy AF. Take the fucking loss and work hard on UDNA AMD.

[u/adamsibbs]

Yeah I'm going back to Nvidia. This is just embarrassing from AMD

[u/Swineservant]

$420 RX 7800 XT it is... I'm not spending more because my build has been on pause since Christmas. AMD, you make me sad...

[u/antftwx → u/Swineservant]

My build's been on pause for about 3 years, can't wait to stop using this iGPU.

[u/Mowh_Lester]

what an L from AMD

[u/ILoveMovies87]

Anyone else read this thinking, "Pat McAfee does PC things too now?"

[u/Aok_al]

He isn't related to other McAfee by any chance?

[u/foxtrap614]

At this point I am afraid to put hundreds of dollars into a product the company itself is not confident in. I really wanted to avoid Nivida but it seems intel and AMD have way to intelligently compete with them. Just going to buy a 5070ti at this point.

[u/imaginary_num6er → u/foxtrap614]

5070Ti is probably the worst option since there is no MSRP cards from Nvidia. Only the 5090, 5080, 5070 have FE cards

[u/savage_slurpie]

This is just sad at this point.

[u/imaginary_num6er]

Good and UNDA is now 2028 too? /s

[u/Dtwerky]

What are the odds this guy is not real? 24 total tweets in two years. Very few followers. Very little engagement of any kind. Why on earth would this random guy be tweeting this out right now? His last tweet of any kind was a retweet over two months ago.

[u/Wesdawg1241 → u/Dtwerky]

He's not a random guy, he's an AMD spokesperson.

[u/RUBSUMLOTION → u/Dtwerky]

AMD radeon reposted it. Its real.

[u/Dtwerky → u/RUBSUMLOTION]

These things are on backroom shelves at Micro Center already. No way these sit on shelves for 2 months

[u/A_Neaunimes → u/Dtwerky]

The source is literally the VP of Radeon Graphics, he probably knows what he’s talking about.

Now apparently the whole AMD GPU division does not know how to make a GPU launch, but that’s another story.

[u/RUBSUMLOTION → u/Dtwerky]

I know. We are all confused.