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
In the case of the 5070ti not much while probably costing most people a decent chunk of change more now AMD is up to the plate.
At $600 they should just get out of GPU business as that will give Nvidia 95% market share.
But even if the cards are good, I expect the Nvidia Defense Force to say "RDOA4" and "Another Massive Disappointment" tomorrow.
People are using double standards, when Nvidia overcharges and underdelivers in gen on gen it's bad, but when AMD used that to overcharge and underdeliver themselves is ok. That is idiotic
If it's a 5070 Ti for $700, that's a different story.
Not long to see, let's be patient. :)
You're using the fact that nvidia did very little gen on gen improvement to justify the price on AMD. How is that not an immediate intellectual red flag?
Officer, sure i killed that person, but so did that other guy, and he tortured the victim first and more. You should lock him up and let me go. Logic!
:roll:
just trying to compare apples to apples
If you compare to the $1200 4080, then $700 would be insane value. But that doesn't make sense, does it?
But installed base dynamic is driven by market share.
Let's see the situation at Nvidia's :
- The MSRPs are jokes, performance uplift relative to RTX40 are mediocre at best, street prices are catastrophic
- They have issues plaguing this generation slamming them one after the other (that they could easily have avoided)
- Total disrespect of their AIBs, essentially using them as free production facilities, to hell with their own profit and to hell with the price they apply on them
- System integrators have put in place "yes you'll get full hardware specs" guarantee programs (how the fuck does that even happen ????)
Let's see the situation at AMD :
- 6 weeks late, actually spent that time doing something useful
- 70Ti competitor for almost 70 prices
- 70 competitor for 70 price (except the supply is already here and you won't have to play Russian roulette with your hardware specs)
- Hopefully better software, no blackscreens or botched PCIe5
- Unfortunately no MBA models but I guess that's fine as long as the AIBs understand it's time to play ball and try to align their prices with the MSRP
What makes you seriously think AMD should offer a 70Ti competitor at the price of a 60 ?
Nvidia destroyed their own image through both sloppiness and disgust of their own customer base and AMD swoops in, seemingly forgetting to miss an opportunity, with a card that, even if they buffed all their performance claims by x2 (which is a thing Nshittia is particularly fond off), still offer far better value than a 900$ maybe-88-ROP-edition or other unobtainium models.
The people who want AMD to sell the 70XT under 500 are completely either delusional, fools completely disconnected from reality with absolutely no notion of monetary value or moronic trolls/Nshittia shills.
HOWEVER, I do concede the non XT 70 would have been much more appealing at 480-500
As negatively as you attempt to paint Nvidia (and they earned some of that), the stability issues with black screens were diagnosed and fixes were issued within the first two weeks and have expedited RMA for those affected by the ROP issue (which is a quality assurance problem). The whole "AIB disrespect" thing is just rhetoric from EVGA fanboys, and it remains the 9070 XT is still fundamentally incapable of conclusively beating both the RTX 4080 and its own predecessor, the 7900 XTX, all the while already including "hopefully" and making the preemptive assumption that stock supply for day one will be very healthy and everyone will get a card, which is... optimistic to say the least.
All I'm saying, AMD has a winning formula for this generation, but they don't have a high-end product, they have a competitive one at the performance segment, and that is if they actually manage to navigate through the fundamental issues that remain and also captivate the people who are apprehensive about the 50 series launch woes - this launch has been bad for Nvidia and it's an unguarded goal for AMD. All they have to do is kick.
I believe in their game plan, I was oddly satisfied by the press deck release, hopefully it won't disappoint in practice, as it certainly did not on paper.I mean, thought hadn't even crossed my mind, it's just that I tend to expect the worst when it comes to pricing. I actually estimated $2499 MSRP for the 5090, it ended up landing at $1999. Preparing for the worst case scenario allows you to plan your budget better and feel slightly less disappointed when you look at the crater such a purchase will leave in your bank account :)
Still AMD has offered 20% ish better price to performance before and still has gotten crushed not sure why anyone is celebrating the same thing when it's vs in my opinion the worst Nvidia generation since GTX 400 series.
Only time will tell, if in a couple quarters they are still stuck at 10% market share I guess they are more than happy being a distant second which is a shame because it doesn't even seem like Nvidia is trying anymore.
Lets be real when was the last time Nvidia not only had driver issue, hardware issues, and availability issues all at the same time especially when basically using a mature node that's been around for almost 3 years on top of using a similar connector since the 3090ti was launched almost 3 years ago and had a better version of it....
When you're a 3T$ market cap company, how the hell do you justify so many fuck ups on the market you've been crushingly mastering over the past decade or so other than proving you're a shitty company ?A 3T$ company that already went through several generations of different standards and is leading bleeding edge technology at unprecedented scales managed to fail PCIe5 implementation (despite already having it widely applied it to datacenter cards), has humongous R&D and budget for their software division manages to have blackscreen issues that require a vBIOS update and orders so many chips for datacenter and gaming that they *accidentally* get chips on sale with less hardware than advertised ? I'm especially not buying the last one, just like that one slide with the 5070=4090 (no asterisk, no fine print, no nothing) they perfectly knew what they were doing and just ditched the defective dies in production hoping it wouldn't get noticed or that people with them wouldn't want the hassle of RMA-ing them.I don't know enough about that one particular pointDoes it have to ? All we need it to do is deliver solid performance for an acceptable price, which Nvidia has completed disregarded altogether with RTX50, even when the 5070/60Ti/60 drops, I'm pretty sure 3-4 different things about them are going to make them look particularly mediocre and nuke Nvidia's image on the gaming/content creation market (at this point I'm not even sure Nvidia cares anymore and is looking for a pretext to only make AI accelerator card)I mean, idk man, we've seen leaked retailers picture of existing stock since mid January in different countries so... :shrug:Hopefully AMD comes back next gen with a Big Navi in UDNA... :PSee you on the 5th ?
The gaming market is only 10% of revenue for Nvidia, with "AI PC" included so who knows how much of it is gaming, or OEM sales. With the issues they're having with Blackwell it's obvious the budget is being shifted away from R&D and the gaming market. When AMD has bad drivers people reletenlessly condem them for it.A significant reason why EVGA stopped making GPUs is because they weren't making any margins with the 30 series, because Nvidia has been undercutting their own partners with the FE cards since the GTX 10 series.
In addition to that, Nvidia was making record profits off miners, and EVGA tried to do the right thing by selling GPU's closer to MSRP and lost money doing so. And I can only assume they seen it coming with the 40 series melting power connectors. Gamers Nexus has videos on why EVGA left the market, but geforce buyers still deny the leather jacket man having any blame on contributing to killing off the AIB with the best customer support.I agree, it doesn't have to, all the 9070XT needs to do is sell for MSRP, and if it sells for even close to MSRP, AMD has the chance to grab some sales away from Nvidia.AMD would've had to mess up really badly to not have plenty of stock ready for launch, but I guess we'll see.