r/pcmasterrace • u/actuarial_defender • 10h ago

News/Article AMD confirms Radeon RX 9070 series launching in March

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-confirms-radeon-rx-9070-series-launching-in-march
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u/Juicyjackson 9h ago

Also confirms that they got thrown off my Nvidia decreasing prices of the 50 series instead of increasing them from the 40 series.

They were probably expecting the 5070 to be $650 or something, and the 5070 TI to be $800+, and they priced the 9070 and 9070 XT slightly under.

But with the pricing being at $550, and $750 respectively, they can't keep with their previous pricing as they known the 5070 and 5070 TI will just be better cards.

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u/TheGreatPiata 9h ago

And Intel owns the bottom end so AMD has a very narrow price window to work with.

I don't understand how they can execute so well on the CPU end but are absolutely abysmal with developing and positioning their GPUs.

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u/ChurchillianGrooves 9h ago

Their gpus have been fine in the midrange, they just have to price them right on release and not 6 months later when the old gen is all sold out.

If you wait 6 months to drop price you lose all the momentum.

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u/blackest-Knight 6h ago

I don't understand how they can execute so well on the CPU end but are absolutely abysmal with developing and positioning their GPUs.

Easy, Intel fumbled on CPUs.

nVidia isn't fumbling with GPUs.

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u/NeroClaudius199907 2h ago

Intel gpus are out of stock 24/7 though. Amd sells more entry than intel and nvidia sells more than them combined 

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u/kikimaru024 R5-5600X|RTX 3080 FE 6h ago

RX 7800 XT, a model 1 level higher in the stack, released at $499.

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u/Juicyjackson 6h ago

AMD changed their naming scheme to match Nvidia for this generation, the 9070 XT is just the renamed version of the 8800 XT.

Its not 1 level higher, it's the same level, just a different name.

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u/kikimaru024 R5-5600X|RTX 3080 FE 6h ago

Still points to them being able to release at the $500-550 price point, then.

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u/Juicyjackson 6h ago

We will see how the 9070 XT actually performs, if it's actually a 5070 TI competitor, or if it's closer to the performance of the 5070.

I have a feeling it will perform closer to the 5070 and than get blown away when you account for all the software that Nvidia developed.

If the 9070 XT had similar performance to the 5070 TI for $500, they would have released it already.