OcUK GUIDE TO ORDERING YOUR AMD 9070 GRAPHICS CARD TODAY AT 14:00

[GhostDog1981]

Bit late to the party but getting my Pulse today!

I'll be using DDU to uninstall nvidia drivers before installing the AMD ones. Is there anything else I should do when the card is installed? Just asking cos I've seen people mention undervolting and it's been ages since I messed with a GPU and it's settings.

Glad to see you got a card! Enjoy it above else!

If you want to tinker in Adrenalin either click on Auto OC tab and let the software do the overclocking or manually (Custom Tab) set the voltage to -40mv and leave vram and core offset alone at stock settings and set a fan curve in the software.

That should give you stable gaming and a cool card.

 

[Game]

stock levels are looking good now

 

[humbug]

I doubt that very much. The prices for GDDR6 is catering due to lack of demand.

You can check the spot prices for it here: https://dramexchange.com/

$3 for an 8GB kit is a more of what i was thinking, a lot lower in fact. i was thinking more like $15 - $20 for an 8GB kit.

The RX 9060 XT 16GB looks like its going to be way under $400, i cannot imagine the cost of its 16GB being 1/3 of the cost of the cards retail price, no way... no one is making any money on that.

A well known Chinese reseller is selling 2GB Samsung GDDR6 IC's for £14 a pop but those will be with a 5X markup on what they paid for them.

 

[humbug]

Also AMD will be buying these in batched of of loads, i don't know but many thousands, 100K? at a time and getting a discount on top of already not paying retail for them.

 

[threebagsfull]

I really, really don't understand who is buying the £800 9070 xts when cheaper models are in stock.

That really has me baffled.

 

[GhostDog1981]

I really, really don't understand who is buying the £800 9070 xts when cheaper models are in stock.

That really has me baffled.

Usually overclocking and aesthetics is what you pay the premium for.

 

[BullDock]

Also AMD will be buying these in batched of of loads, i don't know but many thousands, 100K? at a time and getting a discount on top of already not paying retail for them.

I would hope so. Considering their 6000 series and 7000 series still use GDDR6. Are they still producing them?

I really, really don't understand who is buying the £800 9070 xts when cheaper models are in stock.

I would rather get an Nvidia for than an AMD for that price.

 

[Gibbo]

More Pulse available.

 

[benjo]

More Pulse available.

Thanks, just ordered!

 

[tommybhoy]

I would rather get an Nvidia for than an AMD for that price.

You don't buy Asus if you're looking for a cheaper equivalent, you're buying Asus because it's either Asuss or that's the one you want the most.

If purchasing by cost, you would buy the cheaper 70XT which is still considerably lower cost to entry than the cheapest 70Ti.

Asus TUF 70Ti equivalent costs £1000= +£200 over the TUF 9070XT

 

[captain_d0nkey]

Google sapphire pulse with the price you should find an expired deal, use that link to monitor the site

Ding ding ding ding

 

[Joxeon]

Looks like AMD lied when they said a couple a months ago they would be getting more cards out for MSRP.

 

[nomadd]

Looks like AMD lied when they said a couple a months ago they would be getting more cards out for MSRP.

Have you skipped the news for the last two months? World is changing daily. Gibbo has mentioned several times how prices are varying widely from delivery to delivery.

Look at what Nvidia was telling the press just yesterday about it's three new cards: MSRP is guidance only, and does not include taxes, VAT or tariff effects.

It is what it is.

 

[Gibbo]

Looks like AMD lied when they said a couple a months ago they would be getting more cards out for MSRP.

Shipped a lot into US I believe in fear of tariffs kicking in.

In fairness though OcUK has 9070 XT on stock now and selling well with 100's in stock and has had stock every week in very large volumes and another 1000+ due over next week or so.

So it could be better but OcUK has shipped over 10,000 units of 9070 XT now, so we are not complaining.

 

[uscool]

Looks like AMD lied when they said a couple a months ago they would be getting more cards out for MSRP.

Well above suggests they have good quantity and selling well so why would they lower the price ?

At some point the demand will drop , or when it does maybe they'll start drip feeding to keep them higher ?

 

[BullDock]

But slowing down. Which is good. Let them saturate the market.

 

[mmj_uk]

Well above suggests they have good quantity and selling well so why would they lower the price ?

No reason but hopefully now we'll see the end of people claiming that AMD are the good guys while NVidia are just out to rip people off. Given the opportunity AMD would do the same.

It's not so long ago that AMD were saying that they were dropping the high-end because the vast majority of sales are under $500, now they're selling a $500 graphics card at high end prices. They have no reason to release a high-end card when they can sell a cheaper mid-range one for the same price.

 

[threebagsfull]

But slowing down. Which is good. Let them saturate the market.

If 5070 tis hit RRP more often, 9070 xts at £700 have no chance at all.

 

[Firegod]

No reason but hopefully now we'll see the end of people claiming that AMD are the good guys while NVidia are just out to rip people off. Given the opportunity AMD would do the same.

It's not so long ago that AMD were saying that they were dropping the high-end because the vast majority of sales are under $500, now they're selling a $500 graphics card at high end prices.

Just to correct this - AMD are not selling a £500 GPU at high end prices. AMD set an MSRP. A suggested retail price. Retailers are not obligated to adhere to this price. If the demand is there, as Gibbo has clearly stated they have shifted over 10,000 units, then why would a retailer drop the price? All due to market conditions.

 

[Gibbo]

Just to correct this - AMD are not selling a £500 GPU at high end prices. AMD set an MSRP. A suggested retail price. Retailers are not obligated to adhere to this price. If the demand is there, as Gibbo has clearly stated they have shifted over 10,000 units, then why would a retailer drop the price? All due to market conditions.

Our cost don't permit MSRP, AMD have to fund that so even if I had 100,000 units on stock right now, yes I could tweak the price a little but we would still be a million miles away from MSRP.

Also the cheaper models like the Pulse, even when 300-500 units do drop, they never last more than a day.

If AMD did fund MSRP again, to keep stock on shelf for say a week I'd estimate at requiring needing 5000 units minimum which I know is totally impossible to supply that volume right now and will probably remain impossible to supply such volumes for another month or two at least.

I'd love nothing more to get support/funding to hit MSRP again, but I'd also want like 5000-10,000 units to do it as well, it is pointless to do it for 500 units and the stock is sold out within an hour, it is my job to keep stock on shelfs and always available, we are miles away from that.

Whereas NVIDIA has achieved that now with 5070, I am under MSRP, thousands in stock and selling very well, it kills the scalping market and consumers can buy at leisure.