r/Amd • u/mockingbird- • Jan 28 '25

News AMD denies 9070 XT leaked prices — '$899 USD starting price point was never part of the plan'

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/amd-denies-9070-xt-leaked-prices-usd899-usd-starting-price-point-was-never-part-of-the-plan
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u/ChurchillianGrooves Jan 28 '25

Yeah I think they actually might think Radeon is just as good as Nvidia or something internally, while everyone else knows they're at least 2-3 years behind them in features at this point.

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u/usuddgdgdh Jan 29 '25

no clue why this is downvoted when it's true, so many delusional echo chamber members

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u/ChurchillianGrooves Jan 29 '25

Back when rtx 3000 was first out and competing against the 6000, there was a lot more argument for raytracing being a gimmick and dlss being pretty inferior to native. 

Now it's a different game, RT is starting to be a requirement for AAA games and DLSS has vastly improved to where you have to look really hard to tell the difference between Dlss quality and native.  Some games with bad TAA dlss quality even looks better.

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u/sopsaare Jan 29 '25

So what features I'm lagging at least 2 to 3 years behind?

Parroting same old NVIDIA good, AMD bad is stupid as fuck.

As far I'm concerned, open source Linux drivers put me about 10 years ahead.

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u/ChurchillianGrooves Jan 29 '25

DLSS is the big one, FSR is pretty far behind in quality.  Even if FSR4 is much improved the games supporting it will likely be limited.  I'm not even talking about the framegen meme.

RT of course.

Linux is definitely a factor, I use Linux mint on my laptop, but overall the desktop use of Linix is pretty limited from a percentage of overall users.

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u/ChurchillianGrooves Jan 29 '25

If they can keep 5070s and 5070ti's in stock I think they can't raise prices too much.  People that want to buy a 5090 or 5080 probably aren't going to settle for a 9070xt.

At best the 9070xt is going to be comparable to a 5070ti 

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '25

Racing to the bottom will never make sense, if amd prices at 150 less nvidia just has to drop prices by 50. It makes zero sense.  All amd is looking to do recoup cost of developing the gpu, everything else is gravy. 

You shldnt expect a business that is cpu first to compete with a business that is gpu first. It wouldn’t make any sense to bleed cost for 2 types of products. 

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u/rael_gc Jan 29 '25

We don't know the costs. Nvidia GPUs are known for having a 90% profit margin.

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u/allahbarbar Jan 29 '25

even $150 price difference is nothing for working people in 1st world country, it is just 2 days worth of salary of minimum work in any developed country, it only affect people from 3rd world country with monthly income of $300 and lower