PC Building Guide and Discussion #14

[Osprey]

AMD introduces $599 Radeon RX 9070 XT and $549 RX 9070 RDNA4 GPUs

The XT's pricing is a relief and what I realistically hoped that it'd be. Credit to AMD for listening to the community. Also, it's nice to see benchmarks and comparisons at native settings, instead of with upscaling and frame gen enabled. Their slides show the XT only 2% slower than the 5070 Ti at 4K Ultra settings in 30+ games and only 8% slower in the raytraced titles (but 2% faster and only 5% slower, respectively, for the OC models). So, it's pretty close to the performance of the 5070 Ti at 4K for $150 less.

The non-XT's pricing is a head scratcher and reminiscent of the initial pricing of the 7900 XT and 7700 XT. No one is going to buy the 9070 if the 9070 XT is only $50 more, but maybe they're counting on it selling if/when the cheaper XT models run out of stock. If a higher margin on the non-XT helped them to keep down the price of the XT (which is all that anyone cares about), then I suppose that we can't complain.

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

Honestly, the $600, and IF it has actual availability, the XT could be a massive boon for AMD.

But yeah, the non-XT should of been $500. It basically gets suffocated and killed by XT sales.