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AMD Allegedly Has 200,000 Radeon RX 7900 Series GPUs for Launch Day

Plenty of 4080 and 90 around in UK if you want a ludicrously over priced card this Christmas.

Not sure the few hundred difference will put people off if they're prepared to spend 1000 anyway...

They'll all gather dust on shelves in the first half of next year imo...
 
A paper launch doomed the rx 6000 series, which was unavailable for the majority of the pandemic and even after the great reopening was in short supply for months on end, even if you wanted to pay scalper pricing.

Nvidia had stock issues too, but they were closer to having like 50 cards a week on newegg vs maybe 2 for AMD.

AMD has gotta fix that. Doesnt matter how great your cards are if nobody can buy them.
 
So they're launching tomorrow and reviews haven't dropped yet? Kinda disappointing in itself.
 
I think it was announced they launch tomorrow and NDA also lifts tomorrow.

But you had NDA lift for unboxing a couple of days ago, isn't that enough?

:p
 
Does anybody know when they will be available in EST tomorrow?
 
Assuming at 25/75 split of 7900xt/7900xtx, that's 185,000,000m in GPU sales. With a 30% profit, that's 55.5m in profit., just with launch GPUs. seems pretty great.
 
It's too bad both release their high-end cards first. Not interested.
 
And scalpers just bought them all lol. ;)
 
ARF said:
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Where is your US?
Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Ireland, Monaco, Switzerland, Norway are all well above.

The EU market alone is towards 500 million people, while the US is much smaller - only around 300 million.

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I agree on the fact that EU is a bigger market (or at least same size) since wealth is more distributed and we don't (all) live on tips and coupons.

On the other hand, GDP is an old-school measure that don't mean anything more than "how much money is stored in this country". It was invented in the 40's to measure economic growth.
It doesn't measure wealth of people or its distribution among working classes.
It doesn't measure wellness of the economy (like if you can survive with minimum wage - in Europe, you can).
Given the current state of the economy, at peak, fully grown, and soon to be decaying due to climate change and pandemic, GDP is just a useless indicator now.

Meadows' report is still valid and honoring it's 50 years. Sadly. Infinite growth isn't possible, so GDP is a biased indicator.
But that's a huge problem that I won't discuss here ; not the place.
 
200K units for launch day is very healthy. I hope the prices keep steady.
 
Bomby569 said:
Paper launch. So they either are launching just to say they have anything or it's some weird plot to create artificially constrained demand. I'm more inclined for the 2nd.
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Neither, AMD is just making announcements so the world knows what to expect. It the business form of a head-up. There's nothing wrong or sinister about it.
 
Renald said:
I agree on the fact that EU is a bigger market (or at least same size) since wealth is more distributed and we don't (all) live on tips and coupons.

On the other hand, GDP is an old-school measure that don't mean anything more than "how much money is stored in this country". It was invented in the 40's to measure economic growth.
It doesn't measure wealth of people or its distribution among working classes.
It doesn't measure wellness of the economy (like if you can survive with minimum wage - in Europe, you can).
Given the current state of the economy, at peak, fully grown, and soon to be decaying due to climate change and pandemic, GDP is just a useless indicator now.

Meadows' report is still valid and honoring it's 50 years. Sadly. Infinite growth isn't possible, so GDP is a biased indicator.
But that's a huge problem that I won't discuss here ; not the place.
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iPhone revenue in the US is almost double that of Europe. I imagine it is the same for high end video cards. Anyways I can't take your comment seriously saying Europe you can live on minimum wage. The US has low costs for housing and goods, that's why the PPP income is higher. You just want to pretend the US is poor or something.
 
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Bomby569 said:
Paper launch. So they either are launching just to say they have anything or it's some weird plot to create artificially constrained demand. I'm more inclined for the 2nd.
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Paper launch implies there are no cards. People need to stop with this loosely throwing around "paper launch" terminology. They have 200k cards to go around. Not a lot, but it isn't 0.
 
Nater said:
So they're launching tomorrow and reviews haven't dropped yet? Kinda disappointing in itself.
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G3D and several others have posted their reviews.
 
maxfly said:
G3D and several others have posted their reviews.
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Yeah I think TPU's review went live like 9 minutes after my post.

So today is the day. I only see a pre-order up at bhphoto for the XFX cards at the moment. Searching for 7900XTX doesn't even give any results at Amazon, Newegg, etc. Nothing at AMD.com yet.
 
Garrus said:
iPhone revenue in the US is almost double that of Europe. I imagine it is the same for high end video cards. Anyways I can't take your comment seriously saying Europe you can live on minimum wage. The US has low costs for housing and goods, that's why the PPP income is higher. You just want to pretend the US is poor or something.
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It's strange to me that you are the only one here aware that USA is the #1 as in power to buy, I thought it was common knowledge. I've seen Asian manufacturers say Europe is small-fry for them in sales compared to the USA sales numbers. As for GPUs, many manufacturers don't even sell in Europe at all and you can only find them on the used market stolen from God knows where. Apple phones are common for rich-people, like having a Samsung TV is common or having a TV in your house is common. For other brands without such monopoly, I think if people would see the sales numbers of Europe compared to USA - they'd think the underwhelming sales numbers are from South-Africa not Europe.
I especially enjoyed the delusional comparison of tiny(no joke) countries such as Norway, Luxembourg, Switzerland to USA / North-America. These healthy wealthy European countries toghether don't count as much as 1 state of the USA and in no way represent the entirety of Europe, two of them not even in the EU. I'm European and deal with freight; Europe without GB, France and Germany would just be WTFistan and as underdeveloped as East-Europe.
 
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AgathoDaimon said:
It's strange to me that you are the only one here aware that USA is the #1 as in power to buy, I thought it was common knowledge. I've seen Asian manufacturers say Europe is small-fry for them in sales compared to the USA sales numbers. As for GPUs, many manufacturers don't even sell in Europe at all and you can only find them on the used market stolen from God knows where. Apple phones are common for rich-people, like having a Samsung TV is common or having a TV in your house is common. For other brands without such monopoly, I think if people would see the sales numbers of Europe compared to USA - they'd think the underwhelming sales numbers are from South-Africa not Europe.
I especially enjoyed the delusional comparison of tiny(no joke) countries such as Norway, Luxembourg, Switzerland to USA / North-America. These healthy wealthy European countries toghether don't count as much as 1 state of the USA and in no way represent the entirety of Europe, two of them not even in the EU. I'm European and deal with freight; Europe without GB, France and Germany would just be WTFistan and as underdeveloped as East-Europe.
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Italy alone is in the top of world economies on several metrics. Germany and France were mentioned by yourself. Netherlands is the country with the highest internet connection density in the world. There are many more examples. Yes, these countries are smaller, none is 'doing all of the things', but many excel in a specific area or areas and in that, they're leading or sub top globally. Europe is positioned well, globally, and geographically, in distribution chains too. We're on a popular continent with, overall, very high standards of living and this attracts lots of higher segments of business/population. The further you move towards the east, that lead diminishes, which is logical as those member states are still reforming to union standards.

The US also has a strong divide between those with buying power and those without, much like the countries within Europe. Globally, Europe is the third world economy. The reality though is that Europe isn't a single entity, even as EU, the member states are still individual member states. Anyone in sales will tell you its a complete mistake to take the EU market as a single thing for granted.

The individual member states on their own though, are indeed small markets, and that has its effect, much like described. We can look abroad, no problem, but that's looking at other small markets with similar limitations. But overall 'power to buy' isn't the issue here. Europeans spend record amounts on luxury goods and holidays ;) Availability of goods was also generally never an issue - that's a novel thing. The main issue, is that we've outsourced a lot of things and have been naive in keeping things under native control instead of selling that off to Americans or Asians ;) That's changing though... hopefully.
 
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