Soldato
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I watched Hardware Unboxed's 9070XT review and he pretty confirmed that the 'MSRP' price is more of an introductory price with AMD giving $50 rebates to board partners to allow them to hit the MSRP price on launch.The good thing about the 9070 and 9070XT is that new stock seems to appear fairly regularly.
Also as predicted with higher stock flows, the price gouging will be a lot lower than for 5000 series GPUs. Some competitor retailers have been trying to sell the MSRP 9070 XT models at almost £800. Yet we see OCUK at much lower prices (yes still higher than MSRP) occasionally show in stock .
So those £629 9070 XTs seem to be the real street price once things settle down. This will fluctuate with the exchange rates, but those £570 MSRP models may become incredibly rare as Gibbo had alluded to.
It’s not ideal but compared to Nvidia real street prices the 9070 and 9070 XTs look like bargains. If The 9070 and 9070 XT stock situation is far better than we see with Nvidia 5000 series. If AMD can keep stock flowing they will gain market share by default. It’s an ugly win for AMD, but it is a win.
We probably won't see that price again until prices and stock levels stabilise on the Geforce side which could take months.