Wednesday, February 26th 2025
AMD Radeon RX 9070-series Pricing Leaks Courtesy of MicroCenter
It appears as if US computer hardware retailer MicroCenter jumped the gun and posted the pricing of AMD's upcoming Radeon RX 9070-series graphics cards. This includes both the RX 9070 and the RX 9070 XT and the company posted pricing for no less than eight different cards from ASRock, ASUS, Gigabyte, PowerColor, Sapphire and XFX. The listings have since been removed, but VideoCardz posted a screenshot of the pricing for the various cards and it's not looking for AMD, at least not based on its statement that "85% of gamers buy cards below $700", since only two out of the eight cards manages to meet AMD's statement. Admittedly, some pricing appears to be placeholders, but it's clear that AMD's partners want more than AMD's MSRP pricing for their cards.
Starting with the RX 9070 cards, ASRock comes in at US$649.99 for its Radeon RX 9070 CL Triple Fan, whereas the only other RX 9070 is the Sapphire Reaper Triple Fan which is listed at US$1,099.99, which this card quite obviously won't sell for. The cheapest RX 9070 XT is again from ASRock in the shape of the RX 9070 XT SL Triple Fan for US$699.99, which is followed by the XFX RX 9070 XT Swift Triple Fan for US$729.99. The Gigabyte and Sapphire cards are listed at US$899.99 followed by ASUS and PowerColor at US$1,049.99 and US$1,100,00 respectively, all of which appear to be placeholder pricing. Even so, at over US$700, AMD is really going to have to deliver some unexpected performance figures to be able to compete with NVIDIA this time.
Sources:
MicroCenter, via VideoCardz
Starting with the RX 9070 cards, ASRock comes in at US$649.99 for its Radeon RX 9070 CL Triple Fan, whereas the only other RX 9070 is the Sapphire Reaper Triple Fan which is listed at US$1,099.99, which this card quite obviously won't sell for. The cheapest RX 9070 XT is again from ASRock in the shape of the RX 9070 XT SL Triple Fan for US$699.99, which is followed by the XFX RX 9070 XT Swift Triple Fan for US$729.99. The Gigabyte and Sapphire cards are listed at US$899.99 followed by ASUS and PowerColor at US$1,049.99 and US$1,100,00 respectively, all of which appear to be placeholder pricing. Even so, at over US$700, AMD is really going to have to deliver some unexpected performance figures to be able to compete with NVIDIA this time.
158 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 9070-series Pricing Leaks Courtesy of MicroCenter
You have to be insane to buy gpu's this generation. For my part they can keep them, I'm sure there are a lot of idiots to buy them at these prices
But I'm not surprised if the MSRP's are real, hopefully more real than Nvidia's MSRP's though.
No the question is the performance. Something tells me it wont be as fast as 7900 XTX and the price for that one is $1K. If that is true not impressed. Moving on.
outside of the Asrock cards these are even worse than I was expecting. I guess Asrock didn't get the memo that pricing near MSRP isn't how it's done in 2025.
Still guessing $599 and $699 as the MSRP but after AMD ditched their MBA model you know that shite was going to be fake news.There will be no MSRP cards now that AMD has ditched the MBA maybe some fake listings that never actually go in stock untill demand dries up completely but otherwise no chance.
This is probably why AMD waited had they released early they would have gotten blasted for a 700 usd 7800XT successor but now it won't matter other than the few butt hurt fanboys that were expecting 500 usd.
The current market is f*cked all around and it won't get any better unless Nvidia stops being greedy since AMD will follow what the market leader does.
And of course the AI bubble would have to pop for Nvidia to stop bleeding the gaming market dry.
Their gaming revenue increased by 800M USD. Their gaming operating income decreased by 800M USD due to a 44% increase in operating expenses.
Try to wrap your brain around that.
Do you know what a 10-K is?
”The year over year decrease in Graphics segment operating income was driven by an increase of 44% in segment operating expenses, partially offset by growth in
revenue.”
But keep going on that AMD’s prices are Nvidia’s fault, while Nvidia is actually reducing their gaming profits. Make sure to tap your heels together.
"85% of gamers buy cards below $700"? Therefore, if we price our products at $699.99, which is technically under $700, we would surely get 85% of the market share.
Not really sure why so many expected them to sell 70(Ti) competitors at -60(Ti) class prices, the "85% below 700" also includes everyone who buys X060 GPUs and that's coming end of March, which should let AMD and Intel (if they one day launch the B770...) have ALL of the market share as Nshittia doesn't seem to care anymore about that slice of the market
I do agree that 700 is rather spicy but hey, if the damn thing actually has stock, delivers on performance, doesn't have too many driver issues and every unit has all of its ROPs (can't believe this is an expectation to have on the GPU market in 2025, thanks Jensen), I don't really see the issue with the 600-700 bracket -as long as the street price doesn't stray too far from it of course-
Throw in their 8.6% tax provision and you‘re 26.9% margin on gaming before amortization. Nothing to sneeze at, but far, far shy of 60%.
We can talk about 30% margins when the gpus are easy to get at msrp.
Edit:
MSI Net Margin 3.4%
Gigabyte looks to be around 5% Net (doing the math in my head)
Seems it’s the distributers and retailers that are making out.
Again, from their 10-KThere’s no reason to listen to made up forum conspiracy theories when it’s all laid out their SEC filings.
Remember last summer when Micron said they were sold out of GDDR7 through 2025?