A brand new rumor means that AMD is making ready to launch its Radeon RX 9000 collection of flagship graphics playing cards with an “aggressive” worth to compete with arch rival Nvidia.
As Wccftech stories, whereas AMD has but to disclose its worth plans for its upcoming RDNA 4 graphics playing cards, a leaker posting on IT Dwelling suggests that Group Pink gained’t be messing round, and will worth the Radeon RX 9000 GPUs low sufficient as to trigger Group Inexperienced some actual complications.
The rumor additionally suggests this pricing may even impression gross sales of the older Radeon RX 7800 XT.
The price of battle
AMD launched the Radeon RX 7800 XT in 2023 for $499.99 (about £380/AU$725), so the leaker’s feedback counsel that the brand new Radeon RX 9070 collection of GPUs will launch for round $500 – $600.
This may put them in direct competitors with the upcoming GeForce RTX 5070 and 5070 Ti from Nvidia, which can launch this month for $549 (£549 / AU$1,509) and $749 (£749 / AU$1,109), respectively. A brand new leak suggests the 5070 Ti may launch on February 20.
It’s anticipated that AMD’s upcoming RX 9070 XT will match the RTX 5070 Ti in terms of efficiency – if that proves appropriate, and it prices considerably much less, then Nvidia may lastly have an actual struggle on its arms.
It’s no secret that AMD’s GPUs are so much much less in style than Nvidia’s (you solely want to have a look at the newest Steam {Hardware} Survey to see simply how a lot Group Inexperienced dominates the graphics card marketplace for players), however the firm has a novel alternative proper now to take a good chunk of the market from Nvidia.
Nvidia’s launch of the RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 gives one other alternative for AMD to win over prospects. Not as a result of these are dangerous GPUs – removed from it – however as a result of since their launch, they’ve been all-but unattainable to pay money for, as inventory offered out quick.
After all, that’s nice information for Nvidia, however it means AMD may tempt annoyed PC players to choose up one among its new GPUs relatively than ready for extra inventory of Nvidia’s playing cards to seem.
We’ll have to attend and see whether or not or not AMD manages to make the most of these alternatives.
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