From what we’ve gathered, it seems AMD is starting to play Nvidia’s pricing game. This means that while some 9070 XT models may be available at $600 initially, most will likely be priced higher, and restocks at that price may be limited or infrequent. A lot will depend on how sales perform. AMD has a large stock of Radeon 9070 GPUs, so if demand slows after launch, we expect them to continue offering rebates to keep pricing competitive. However, we will have to wait and see how that plays out.
As things stand, the Radeon RX 9070 XT is a strong offering that we expect will sell extremely well at $600. However, whether that price holds long-term is questionable. We’ve also heard from multiple sources that supply is excellent. If that’s the case, then AMD may end up selling more 9070 XT units than Nvidia has sold 5090, 5080, 5070, and 5070 Ti units combined – which would be crazy
Pretty solid performance relative to 5070 / 5070 ti (with the exception of power consumption / efficiency).
They key issue is true street price and availability.
While I am not in the market for a GPU (my 3080 works fine enough at 1440), I do hope AMD find success, just to give some competition to Nvidia (and hopefully provide AMD with R&D and driver refinement funds).
nv48xtx was originally designed to run at 220 Watts. I wonder if any reviewer would be interested in benching the xt at that power envelope, I’d be willing to wager it’d fare very well in terms of perf/watt there.
It is interesting to see how it scales over 100 watts beyond that, however.