Yet Nvidia can launch at the RRPs fine,and doesn't appear to even have a UK pricing tax either.
So basically they are doing a fake RRP then. So wait months to essentially get a RTX4070 16GB for the same street price,with the same rasterised performance,worse RT,worse "value added features",worse power consumption,larger physical cards,etc. I wonder if the actual streetprice of most RX7700XT cards will be well over £450? Or is the RRP,only from one retailer,at one specific time,if you look in the right direction and hopefully in a few weeks you might get a card?
They repeatedly overprice everything. RX7900XT was overpriced,Zen4 was overpriced,their AM5 motherboards are overpriced,etc. Then invariably the price starts collapsing after that as the stock stays on the shelves. But by then the games promo will be over,and Nvidia might just include one so they will probably not be better value even then.
So why was there a delay for this GPU for nearly six months? If they wanted to price it like an RTX4070,then they should have launched it at the same time then?
If they actually priced stuff well and made sure they stopped playing games with pricing like this,they would get more sales.
No wonder their marketshare is under 20% on desktop. But We ArE nOt ThE bUdGeT bRaNd right?