*** The AMD RDNA 4 Rumour Mill ***

[Joxeon]

It also indicated how many people will buy nvidia, just because it's nvidia. So lets also take that into consideration. The only reason people seem to be having second thoughts now is the absolute BALLS nvidia made of the 50 series launch with dodgy cards, zero stock, massive price hikes and the dodgy connector.

People keep saying this but the reality is that everyone has a price, I would have bought a 7900XTX last gen had AMD came in at around £750 at launch but why would I spend a grand on one when I already refused a 4080 because I thought that was only worth £800?

 

[TNA]

Have you ever been on facebook tech pages, or looked through some comment sections on YouTube videos? The amount of morons out there that still think amd drivers are stuck in 1999 is scary. There's a lot of disinformation out there about amd gpus and seems a lot of people are dumb enough to swallow it without checking it out for themselves.

A lot of them will readily admit they have not, and wont ever own one because of the drivers and the whole situation with ATI at the time and bad drivers started around the time of the rage fury maxx dual chip gpu and that was launched in 1999, yet here we are in 2025 and that still seems to be a reason why some people will just buy NVidia regardless.

I never go such places. But I can belive it. And you had a lad in here thinking that pc users are all nerds that know what's what. Most are complete noobs.

Still, AMD need to turn that around and it begins with getting a buzz online and great reviews. How can they do that? Don't get greedy with the price and get it right!

 

[Sumanji]

Do you think they’ll try and get away with £699 for the 9070 non XT?

Nah, that would be very silly - like saying "here's the 85% chunk of the market we want, but only one of our two new cards will address it."

I think we can confirm a 9700 XT RRP of $699 at this point - it's just a shame there will be no MBA to anchor that price in reality

Jesus, arguing over the definition of a pre order now. Please hurry up Friday….

Bahaha, it's incredible isn't it

To add some fuel to the fire, there is a difference between a pre-order and a back-order

The 90% market share is far more to do with lack of AMD OEM prebuilds and laptops. The number of actual enthusiasts level discrete GPUs make up a much smaller percentage.

Thank you, this point still hasn't hit home for people that bang on and on about market share.

It also - as everything in the GPU market does nowadays - ties back to supply constraint. If you have a limited number of cards (as either AMD or an AIB), do you want to sell them at thin margins to OEMs, or push them out for much fatter margins at retail?

People like making money.

 

[Hedge]

I think the pricing is going to be disappointing but also think they will sell out every card they supply.

Which I suppose can't be deemed a flop.

Dont expect a bargain. Bargains don't really exist in the current consumer world. Everything we buy, from groceries to cars and houses are more expensive than ever.

Cheap things aimed for a mass take up don't really exist

 

[ICDP]

I think the pricing is going to be disappointing but also think they will sell out every card they supply.

Which I suppose can't be deemed a flop.

Dont expect a bargain. Bargains don't really exist in the current consumer world. Everything we buy, from groceries to cars and houses are more expensive than ever.

Cheap things aimed for a mass take up don't really exist

Their recent slide leak compared both to a GRE and the MSRP for those was $550, so I think their MSRP will sit either side of the GRE MSRP. It will be the retailers who pre scalp them. So AMD say $500 for the 9070 and $600 for the XT. Then we see the usual average “street prices “ of $650 for a 9070 and $800 for the XT.

 

[ICDP]

I see this going two ways for AMD.

1. They genuinely release at decent or very good prices and there is plenty of availability. They finally hit that open goal.

2. They mess up the pricing badly and people instantly forget the Fakewell 5000 omnishambles release.

If it’s 2. I’m going to predict people and “reviewers” will complain about AMD prices and go buy (or recommend) a 5000 series for massively scalped prices and cut down performance with missing ROPs… “cus features”. Because they conveniently forgot that the 5000 series paper launch is overpriced junk that is a fire hazard with cut down features and bad drivers that allegedly kill GPUs. Then at some point in the even further future they will declare without any hint of irony how Nvidia “just works” and the memory of the 5000 release will be forgotten.

 

[TNA]

Just don't over price for once and hit that open goal.

They may never get as big of an open goal as they have now ever again.

 

[platypus]

AMD seem to be the Tottenham Hotspur to Nvidias Man City, if you’ll pardon the football analogy.

Occasional brilliance coupled with almost inevitable self destruction, compared to a brief period of self destruction that should result in relegation and fading into ignominy, but will spend spend spend and roar back just further into the lead.