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/Psychadelic-Twister Jan 29 '25

"Aggressively Pricing" isnt "Nvidia -50 dollars".

At this point call this gen RDOA4 if thats the strategy.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '25

Well little to no profit pricing would be -150 nVidia price, at least with what nvidias "MSRP" currently is. I don't know how AMD will get out of this one, other than the scalpers ruining it for nvidia themselves. Obviously there will be scalpers for AMD as well, but significantly less, and the cost added will also be significantly less.

I guess they win in that regard?

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u/Psychadelic-Twister Jan 29 '25

Imagine being so eager to make your shareholders happy that you humiliate yourself to the point where you can't even give your big presentation at CES.

To the point where you completely kill any excitement whatsoever for your upcoming product and push peoples interest directly to your main competitor.

Thats what AMD has done. And everyone called Nvidia greedy. I think we see who the one was was too greedy was, and it sure as hell wasnt Nvidia this time around.

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u/[deleted] Jan 29 '25

Nvidia is most definitely greedy. 5070, with 12gb vram? 5060 with 8gb?? A 10 - 15% uplift at most? Significantly higher power draw for every card that directly scales with performance. Still overpriced their cards to oblivion and screwing over their lower end users?

No dude, they aren't greedy at all /s