Friday, May 8th 2026
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Drops Below MSRP in China
Chinese GPU distributors are now selling some AMD Radeon RX graphics cards below the MSRP set by AMD. According to Channel Gate, AMD graphics cards in China are currently being sold at a loss, with many channel distributors actually losing money on some Radeon models. For example, the entry-level Radeon RX 7650 GRE, which has an MSRP of 2,099 RMB ($308), is now being sold for about 1,740 RMB ($256), including sales tax. This represents a 17% decrease compared to the MSRP, making it an attractive price point for buyers, but not so much for sellers who have a stockpile of these graphics cards. Moving on to the more recent RDNA 4 generation, the Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB edition has an MSRP of 2,499 RMB ($367) but is now being sold at 2,250 RMB ($330). This is another drop of 10% compared to the MSRP, offering gamers a better deal.
The smallest difference is seen with AMD's top RDNA 4 GPU, the Radeon RX 9070 XT. This model has an MSRP of 4,999 RMB ($735) in China but is now trading at a slight discount of less than one percentage point at 4,950 RMB ($727). While this may not seem significant, it indicates that the card is finally trading at prices that AMD encouraged its board partners to adopt for the latest RDNA 4 family. However, these changes are only now starting to appear in China.
A couple of weeks ago, we reported that RDNA 4-based Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT graphics cards were finally selling below MSRP in Germany. However, this trend wasn't consistent worldwide, and Germany was the only market with sale prices lower than MSRP. Now that the situation has expanded to China, we wonder if the rest of the Western world will also see some price corrections. For example, finding a GPU at MSRP in any European country or the United States is nearly impossible, so we look forward to better supply and lower pricing.
Sources:
Channel Gate, via VideoCardz
The smallest difference is seen with AMD's top RDNA 4 GPU, the Radeon RX 9070 XT. This model has an MSRP of 4,999 RMB ($735) in China but is now trading at a slight discount of less than one percentage point at 4,950 RMB ($727). While this may not seem significant, it indicates that the card is finally trading at prices that AMD encouraged its board partners to adopt for the latest RDNA 4 family. However, these changes are only now starting to appear in China.
26 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Drops Below MSRP in China
Is this an issue with fluctuating USD-RMB exchange rates? Or are there different (higher) MSRPs in China/RMB?
I site you: "The smallest difference is seen with AMD's top RDNA 4 GPU, the Radeon RX 9070 XT. This model has an MSRP of 4,999 RMB ($735) in China but is now trading at a slight discount of less than one percentage point at 4,950 RMB ($727). While this may not seem significant, it indicates that the card is finally trading at prices that AMD encouraged its board partners to adopt for the latest RDNA 4 family. However, these changes are only now starting to appear in China."
Can't complain. It runs cool, quiet and haven't had a title that won't play well.
Maybe cause I don't play BF anymore.
//can sleep forever
Happy it works for you better but I won't go again for "better" deal. Paid less probably should tempered my expectations so its on me I guess
While message boards like this are filled with informed consumers that rant about it. Casuals, at best, do a quick search of launch review conclusions before making a purchase. That's one of the reasons why we see so many fake MSRPs. Retailer gouging, and scalpers, further exacerbate the pricing issues. Prices will only potentially drop when the boxes collect enough dust. It used to be we would benefit from price wars. But those only happen when there is real competition, and there is none. Nvidia won. This is what that GPU market looks like.
GUESS WHAT? the same thing happened when AMD launched RDNA 2 (RX 6800XT-6900XT and later XTX !
I remember i had to fork over 1000 dollars for rx 6800XT back in early 2021 (or late 2020 dont remember exactly) when it's price was 649 dollars MSRP (if im not mistaken).
I know, back then, people were crazy with ETH mining, but still 5 years later, no more mining, but something else entirely shot up : VRAM/RAM ETC>
still the vram on gpu's are not the most expensive parts, it's always the GPU and subcomponents and here we are asking 300 dollars above MSRP (like someone mentioned earlier.