AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series “RDNA 4” GPU Launch Has Been a Mess Because Their Prices Are “Significantly Too High,” It’s Claimed

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The Radeon RX 9070 Series, the first GPUs from AMD to leverage its new RDNA 4 architecture, haven't been released yet because they are too expensive relative to the competition, according to new speculation brewed by a forum post from a PCGH insider who claims that the Radeon RX 9070 and Radeon RX 9070 XT have been delayed for reasons that include "unclear marketing funds" and trouble between AMD and its retail partners.

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Marees said:
Ffs March ???
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We can look at the 6000 and 7000 series launches as to why. AMD always has production problems. When the 6000 launched I'd swear there was only like 200 cards world wide for sale. They were so slow to get stock out for 6-8 months. Then same thing happened with 7000 series, couldn't get one for like 4-6 months after launch.

Hopefully they're pushing the launch to produce enough silicon to meet demand.
 
March is smart, pair it with 9950X3D/9900X3D, and, then, they get the spotlight after NVIDIA launches everything, so they get the 'last' word so to speak, it'll be more recent in peoples brains after the excitement of 50 series plays itself out for the first couple of months. Launching it now, it would get drowned out.
 
Riccochet said:
We can look at the 6000 and 7000 series launches as to why. AMD always has production problems. When the 6000 launched I'd swear there was only like 200 cards world wide for sale. They were so slow to get stock out for 6-8 months. Then same thing happened with 7000 series, couldn't get one for like 4-6 months after launch.

Hopefully they're pushing the launch to produce enough silicon to meet demand.
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Not like Nvidia and intel are doing much better with availability of GPU's
 
Well March and proper pricing surely is the right move. Passing them out early to reviewers might be a good thing too idk.
 
I think AMD could actually do pretty well price/performance wise.

On rasterizing the 9070 should beat the 5070, so does the 9070TX vs the 5070 Ti.

At first it seemed like AMD didn't have a chance, but now that the dust has settled it fares so much better. I think even AMD had doubts and pushed back the launch. Maybe they are also working on a multiframe solution.
 
BTW there are rumors that DLSS framegen could be coming to even the RTX30 series and multiframe to the RTX40, would that mean that the RTX4090 would be as fast as the RTX5090?
 
I can't wait until we have a new metric called "perceived performance"

Or a "Rendered vs Generated Frame Ratio"

Not sure what marketing would spin it as, but for the rest of us, it would be real frames vs fake frames.
 
Brent_Justice said:
Since Frame Gen does not give you more performance in games, no.
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Well, the RTX 5090 is claimed to be twice as fast as the RTX4090 using multiframegen, since multiframegen can potentially double the frames, then the 4090 would be up to twice as fast, ergo, matching the RTX5090.
 
Stoly said:
Well, the RTX 5090 is claimed to be twice as fast as the RTX4090 using multiframegen, since multiframegen can potentially double the frames, then the 4090 would be up to twice as fast, ergo, matching the RTX5090.
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Too much to unpack there at the moment, but no.
 
Brian_B said:
I can't wait until we have a new metric called "perceived performance"
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End-user experience is everything. If the perception is improved, then it's improved.

Note that it's not just the upper bound of performance, but what's possible at the lower tiers too.
 
LazyGamer said:
End-user experience is everything. If the perception is improved, then it's improved.
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Just like all the new cars that pump in V8 engine noise.

If the car sounds better, it must go faster, right?
 
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