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AMD Radeon RX 9070 expected to start at $479, benchmarks now released (UP: RX 9000 series reveal on Feb 28; hits shelves in early March)

Wolzard

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Crayon

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I doubt that it will be enough. I do not expect the performance to match exactly and then you're left with "oh, the Nvidia card is 10% faster and has better production software support, maybe I want to try Ai?" --> Nvidia it is

I think AMD and Nvidia are currently slowly killing PC gaming...

Every has their own ideas of what's enough, though. 9070 XT at $600 against 5070ti is enough for me going with what else (we think) we know. You can't help but compare it to the 5070 at that price and for $50 more it's very good as long as you consider buying amd in the first place.

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The non-xt branding drives me nuts. Does anyone else feel like it gives off an air of being a nerfed 'xt' instead of a proper stablemate? I don't know why that doesn't seem to happen with 'ti' branding. The non-xt models seem to fade into the background. They even seem to have less stock on average.
 
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CrustyBritches

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Every has their own ideas of what's enough, though. 9070 XT at $600 against 5070ti is enough for me going with what else (we think) we know. You can't help but compare it to the 5070 at that price and for $50 more it's very good as long as you consider buying amd in the first place.

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The non-xt branding drives me nuts. Does anyone else feel like it gives off annairt of being a nerfed 'xt' instead of a proper stablemate? I don't know why that doesn't seem no happen with 'ti' branding. The non-xt models seem to fade into the background. They even seem to have less stock on average.
This is kind of where I'm at, too. Expecting something in between a 5070 and 5070 Ti in performance. More on level of CNN DLSS, no MFG, less performant RT. $650 for a decent brand like Sapphire or PowerColor would be highly appealing.
 

SolidQ

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The non-xt models seem to fade into the background. They even seem to have less stock on average.
This time nonXT is very good, and up 7900XT perf. Also based on price screens seems ~150$ difference between nonXT and XT
 
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Crayon

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This is kind of where I'm at, too. Expecting something in between a 5070 and 5070 Ti in performance. More on level of CNN DLSS, no MFG, less performant RT. $650 for a decent brand like Sapphire or PowerColor would be highly appealing.

I'd want more like $600 for xt to say "wow".

Actually available to buy at $650 isn't crazy right this minute, though.

The latest we're seeing is hopefully placeholder prices of $650/$750. That's not working for me. Is that the "mid range" they've been talking up all this time? So how much do they want for a 9060XT?!?

The 6900GRE was $550 and now the "8800XT" would be $750? What are they doing with the product stack? What are you supposed to get for $300? An 8gb 9050?
 
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CrustyBritches

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I'd want more like $600 for xt to say "wow".

Actually available to buy at $650 isn't crazy right this minute, though.

The latest we're seeing is hopefully placeholder prices of $650/$750. That's not working for me. Is that the "mid range" they've been talking up all this time? So how much do they want for a 9060XT?!?

The 6900GRE was $550 and now the "8800XT" would be $750? What are they doing with the product stack? What are you supposed to get for $300? An 8gb 9050?
Understandable. Of course it all depends on the performance. $650 for a Nitro+ or Red Devil would be impulse buy territory for me if it's in between a 5070 and 5070 Ti. $750usd MSRP with the premium cards going for $800-900 would be a tragedy.
 

lachesis

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$600-$650 was my maximum that I was thinking of buying 9070XT. At $750+ I will wait on the reviews and see if it's a worthy of its price.... as I want good Nvidia style HDR implementation + AI upscaled videos, and may even just wait until Nvidia 5070Ti stock issues get resolved and get one at MSRP.

AMD had a lot to prove with this FSR4, and in order to convince mass to convert to FSR4 and their card, they really need to market aggressively. Looks like another missed opportunity.
 

kiphalfton

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Guess I don't understand why anybody would buy a 9070 XT (assuming it has comparable performance to RTX 4080), for $750.

Aside from it being in stock... BUT if that's the case seems like a sacrifice that isn't worth it in the long run.
 

Von Hugh

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Guess I don't understand why anybody would buy a 9070 XT (assuming it has comparable performance to RTX 4080), for $750.

Aside from it being in stock... BUT if that's the case seems like a sacrifice that isn't worth it in the long run.

4080 cards are not available any more, and 5070 Ti with comparable performance costs over 1000 eur in Europe. If 9070 XT is under 900 eur it starts making sense. There are plenty of people who don't care about DLSS or RTX shenanigans.
 
4080 cards are not available any more, and 5070 Ti with comparable performance costs over 1000 eur in Europe. If 9070 XT is under 900 eur it starts making sense. There are plenty of people who don't care about DLSS or RTX shenanigans.
Yes. And I don't see how Nvidia will be able to outmanoeuvre AMD this time. 5070 will barely be an improvement over the 4070 Super and very likely will be higher priced. MSRPs can be ignored for the 50 series, they are pure fiction.
 

FireFly

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Yes. And I don't see how Nvidia will be able to outmanoeuvre AMD this time. 5070 will barely be an improvement over the 4070 Super and very likely will be higher priced. MSRPs can be ignored for the 50 series, they are pure fiction.
There were still 5070 Ti cards selling at MSRP at launch. So really it just depends on supply as whether the price can be retained for the vanilla (non-OC) models.
 

kiphalfton

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4080 cards are not available any more, and 5070 Ti with comparable performance costs over 1000 eur in Europe. If 9070 XT is under 900 eur it starts making sense. There are plenty of people who don't care about DLSS or RTX shenanigans.


I had thrown out the $750 figure, as that's what I saw up above as the rumored price for the 9070 XT, which incidentally is the same price as a base model RTX 5070 Ti.

So essentially I was inferring if anybody would actually pay the same price for a 9070 XT as a base model RTX 5070 Ti?

I referenced 9070 XT performance equating to the RTX 4080, as I believe there was a rumor the 9070 XT should be about on par with it, but seems like the 4080 is technically marginally slower than the RTX 5070 Ti in some benchmarks.

Assuming the 9070 XT is in stock, and the RTX 5070 Ti isn't, seems like a short term win (since something is better than nothing), but in the long term it would probably be a bad purchase decision.

But that's just my opinion. Like you said, for me to even consider the 9070 XT it would have to be ~20% less than the RTX 5070 Ti to make sense purchase wise. Even at launch, when there isn't any stock available for the RTX 5070 Ti. Probably wishful thinking, hoping the 9070 XT will be that much cheaper than the RTX 5070 Ti, but I also think AMD is making a huge mistake (like they have the past however many generations before this) pricing their stuff slightly less than the Nvidia equivalent.

Probably all a moot point, as scalpers will likely buy up all the stock and throw it up on eBay.
 
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dave_d

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I've had AMD boards before so I'd definitely consider it. That being said pretty much everyone has talked about this but whether or not to get it or the 5070ti really is just 3 questions
  • How much?
  • How fast?
  • How many will be available?
If AMD manages to not screw up at least one they might have something.
 

riko

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Here is hoping they release an XTX with 32GB. That might be what is needed to get more developers to support ROCm, because as is its always an after thought, and usually is a worse implementation than CUDA (features, performance)
 
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