AMD is reportedly planning to cost its new gaming GPU vary extraordinarily competitively in contrast with the equal Nvidia GeForce RTX 5000 graphics playing cards. With dwindling market share within the gaming GPU enterprise, it’s completely essential that the brand new AMD Radeon RX 9070 value just isn’t solely cheap, however aggressively aggressive, if it desires to maintain the brand new RTX 5070 at bay, and this newest leak suggests AMD is taking the state of affairs critically.
To this point, AMD has stored tight-lipped concerning the pricing of its new GPUs, however with the Radeon RX 9070 launch date window drawing close to, and the RTX 5070 popping out later in February, it’s important that AMD get it proper. Primarily based on the brand new RDNA 4 structure, AMD says the brand new GPUs will supply “improved” ray tracing in comparison with its earlier chips, which may assist them compete with Nvidia’s newest GPUs too.
This newest leak comes from the Board Channels boards in China, as reported by tech website IT House. In response to a consumer known as “Ghost” on the discussion board, utilizing machine translation, the pricing of AMD’s new Radeon RX 9000 GPUs is “very sharp” (in a great way), with pricing that isn’t solely anticipated to make life troublesome for Nvidia GeForce RTX playing cards, but additionally compete closely with AMD’s personal Radeon RX 7000 GPUs, such because the Radeon RX 7800 XT.
The latter is presently briefly provide, resulting in inflated costs, nevertheless it used to go for round $499. With the RTX 5070 value already set at $549 at MSRP, it seems to be as if AMD goes to be pricing its new GPUs in the identical league as these two playing cards. As a speculative guess, based mostly on this info, I’d predict a value of $549 for the Radeon RX 9070 XT, and $449 because the beginning value for the RX 9070. If, as rumors counsel, the brand new playing cards include 16GB of VRAM, and are in the identical efficiency league because the RTX 4080, then they might doubtlessly threaten Nvidia’s stronghold on this value bracket.
Nonetheless, that’s provided that AMD can genuinely kind out the ray tracing efficiency of its new GPUs, and enhance its upscaling and body technology tech. Our AMD FSR 4 check at CES appeared actually promising, with the brand new AI-based upscaling tech trying considerably higher than earlier efforts. AMD might want to get this tech supported by a lot of video games, although, and it’ll additionally have to compete in opposition to Nvidia DLSS 4 with its new Multi Body Gen tech.
It’s trying set to be an thrilling time in the event you’re planning to purchase the perfect graphics card for $500 within the close to future. Within the meantime, take a look at our RTX 5080 evaluate to learn our ideas on Nvidia’s newest $999 GPU (if you will discover it at that value), in addition to our RTX 5090 evaluate, the place we check the brand new flagship graphics card.
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