The point is AMD are Emailing Steve for pricing advice, they will never win with him, its a trap.
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The point is AMD are Emailing Steve for pricing advice, they will never win with him, its a trap.
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They are probably asking a few. But it is troubling when members of his own community instead of doing price/performance calculations,are more concerned with relative pricing to Nvidia.
That sends the wrong message to AMD IMHO. $550 isn't a bad starting point because it is the RX7900GRE price - in any negotiation you start lower and meet in the middle.
Starting at Nvidia useless pricing,means we are all screwed!
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Its not just him, Steve just vocalises what they all do, because he's nothing like as smart as the rest of them.
If they all went hard after Nvidia, like they need to it will also take some of the polish off Nvidia and in that way we all get cheaper GPU's and perhaps a more balanced market, none of them have the cherries to do that so they go hard at AMD instead hoping they can bully AMD into dragging Nvidia prices down, that only adds to AMD's already in the gutter mindshare, you know... what should be happening to Nvidia with this.
If they all went hard after Nvidia, like they need to it will also take some of the polish off Nvidia and in that way we all get cheaper GPU's and perhaps a more balanced market, none of them have the cherries to do that so they go hard at AMD instead hoping they can bully AMD into dragging Nvidia prices down, that only adds to AMD's already in the gutter mindshare, you know... what should be happening to Nvidia with this.
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What polish? All the reviews are not positive they even had Nvidia to stop sending them cards at one point , what else do you want ?
This isn't very positive
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But AMD needs to worry less about Nvidia and more about their own stack. 30% to 35% over an RX7900GRE would be an RX7900XTX. So under £600 would be an OK starting point,especially as the RX7900XT did dip below £600 and was available around £650.
The RTX5000 series is a lost cause ATM.
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I'd say yes and no.
Yes from the point of view that we might get a decently priced card (if they listen).
No from the point of view, shouldn't a company like AMD know how to price their products without help from youtubers?
That seems like a hypothetical
No doubt AMD are in a difficult place when it comes to 9070/9070XT pricing. They need to make enough profit for it to be worthwhile, which means making enough profit per card but also selling enough cards to make the whole R&D exercise worthwhile. Standing firm on a price that makes you a good pre-card profit and not seem like a bargain brand is all fair and well, but if you only sell enough cards to drop to 5% marketshare have you made enough profit overall to make it worth repeating the cycle?
What we don't KNOW is the performance of the AMD cards, which makes it extra hard for us to speculate. Assuming the reviewers have decent drivers they might have a better idea, but we don't know yet, maybe they're speculating a lot or using old drivers that don't fully support the new cards and so getting incorrect information.
Let's hope that after Nvidia's misstep AMD have a card that performs better than they thought allowing them to set a better price than they were expecting while still setting a price that looks good compared to the competition (and their own previous gen). But if this were the case why would they be asking youtubers for financial advice?
I understand the concern here of such a possibility mate. But here's the thing. Will Nvidia actually drop the price?
Have any of us seen Nvidia drop prices by 3 figures or more? The closest we got a was a re-release of 4080 as a cheaper 4080 super that was still priced too high, but the 4080 non-super still stayed at $1.2k+... they never actually dropped. Actually through out most of the 4000 series lifetime, the GPUs barely dropped in price, even during sales. Only AMD gave deeper discounts.
If any of us had any expectation that Nvidia would drop pricing in reaction to 'nicely priced AMD GPUs', perhaps more folks would agree with your point there.
In my opinion, even if that did end up happening, many folks would remember that it was AMD who made it happen and would probably reflect in their marketshare.
And even then, the Nvidia GPUs this generation have so many issues. So a choice between Nvidia and AMD at similar pricing? I'd go AMD and so would many others.
I mean look at Ryzen. Look at how AMD turned things around there, would we have expected 10 years ago that AMD being aggressive in the CPU market by offering more for good value would end up putting them in a position where Intel is on the back foot? It's a similar situation here and now. AMD have that opportunity to make this a Ryzen-esque GPU moment.
I want the pricing to be below £600 for the 9070XT. But my expectations are low given how retailers are pricing 5000 series and how the consumers are seemingly happy to pay more.
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I doubt they do, they may have the cards in hand but it's unlikely they have drivers for them.
I don't know what (if any) Youtubers you watch, but GN, Jay, Vex, Daniel Owen and HUB have all gone in very hard on Nvidia. LTT have been disappointingly more blasé than the rest but I suppose that's to be expected. Jayz2Cents I was shocked at how brutal he's been.
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There are multiple ways to price a product - based on BOM, based on potential profit over a given time period etc. So yes, of course they know how to price a product. What they probably don't know for sure is how to price it to be appealing to the masses when the masses want Nvidia. Nothing wrong with asking for opinions.
How this can be seen as a negative is beyond me... Oh wait, I know
Given the massive rise in AMDs sales recently I'm not sure about that. There will always come a time where people get fed up and just don't spend their money and I really don't feel like we are far off that point. AMD pricing their cards properly will help massively towards beginning the process of normalising the pricing.
They've already done it once with Ryzen...
Just because Nvidia price stupidly it does not mean that AMD need to do the same, it also doesn't mean they have to do what we want either, but they said they were going for market share...last chance for me in the GPU market before I might just hang my boots up with it all and I'm sure a lot of people will follow suit. Try getting market share if the market dissapears completely
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They've always had good cards. Imo Sapphire is overrated, mostly because they used to have ultra premium models so that built up a rep, and also because their customer service in NA is better than others (and internet discourse is very influenced by US internet discourse no matter the forum). Btw I don't mean they're bad, but I find that the AMD trio, Sapphire Powercolor XFX, is mostly on par with each other (+- depending on generation and model). I say that because I've had personal experience with all of them across all models for at least the past 5 generations.
Ofc not. The other guy is just responding in bad faith. They're obviously discussing hypothetical examples, which is obvious in the context of the other tweets.
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The 9070XT score is on the furmark site now. Slightly different score than the one reported on Videocardz. Looks to be exactly on par with a 5070Ti.
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Very useful and fills in a few gaps in my knowledge. My one experience with XFX was with a 4890, so gives you an idea of how long ago my last experience with them was (it was on par performance wise with a 4850 (iirc) it was replacing, it got sent back). Seeing they've changed I'll add XFX to my potential list
I'd agree. Regardless of how folks see HUB, they've been very critical of Nvidia for the past month or so. I reckon we all just want a GPU release this year that isn't terrible.
All depends on 9070 series price.
The dropped the 4070 to $550 the moment the 7800 XT was launched for $500.
You're right to a certain extent but it really depends on what you consider a win to be, let's not kid ourselves Nvidia will be able to beat AMD on price as they can afford to sell at a loss if they so choose.
However I'd say beating Nvidia on price consistently would not be considered a win. What would be a win in my book is AMD forcing Nvidia into lowering prices, into forcing Nvidia to show their hand. In basically demonstrating to the public at large how much Nvidia have been taking advantage of them with artificially high prices, in a PR loss (as if they need any more of those).
It's why i still maintain that AMD need to offer close to X tier performance for close to the price of the next tier of card down. That way you present your competition with an unwinnable scenario. They either keep prices high and show everyone what poor value for money their product is, or they lower the price by so much people question if it was silly to buy X GPU for Y money when they could've bought a higher tier card for the same price if they had waited.
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I understand what you're saying, and its a smart argument, i think you're probably right but the effect is very limited, largely AMD already undercut Nvidia and have done for many generations of GPU's, the 9070 XT is likely to be at least £100 cheaper than the 5070 Ti when it launches, even people who accept that to be true don't appreciate this, in fact Nvidia's price is still AMD's responsibility despite this. why is that?
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