From what we’ve gathered, it seems AMD is starting to play Nvidia’s pricing game. This means that while some 9070 XT models may be available at $600 initially, most will likely be priced higher, and restocks at that price may be limited or infrequent. A lot will depend on how sales perform. AMD has a large stock of Radeon 9070 GPUs, so if demand slows after launch, we expect them to continue offering rebates to keep pricing competitive. However, we will have to wait and see how that plays out.
As things stand, the Radeon RX 9070 XT is a strong offering that we expect will sell extremely well at $600. However, whether that price holds long-term is questionable. We’ve also heard from multiple sources that supply is excellent. If that’s the case, then AMD may end up selling more 9070 XT units than Nvidia has sold 5090, 5080, 5070, and 5070 Ti units combined – which would be crazy
Intel Battlemage is also really good value, no?
I feel like being competitive isn’t translating into sales anymore, and people are buying Nvidia just because.
It’s pretty good (so long as you have enough CPU power to be minimally affected by the higher driver overhead), but it’s in a different (lower) performance category for now. We’ll see how the B7xx stuff lands though!