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Bofferbrauer2 said:

JEMC said:

Given that you asked for a $449 price point, would the $479 rumor in that article please you? The cost of the AIB models is high, but that's to be expected, sadly, and the same will happend with the Nvidia models.

I'd say if the latest performance leaks are true (which would put the 9070XT at close to 4080 Super performance, both in raster and raytracing, which will probably be miles above the 5070 outside of DLSS and frame gen) combined with FSR4 being almost on par with DLSS, that would be a banger of a price tag.

In fact, due to the latest performance leaks, I was actually expecting $449 for a 9070 non-XT, so this is definitely a nice price.

My problem with that leaked performance is that it comes from synthetic benchmarks, and I don't trust them. There's also the CoD Black Ops benchmark that IGN managed to do, but that game runs better on AMD hardware, making it a best case scenario.

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

JEMC said:

Given that you asked for a $449 price point, would the $479 rumor in that article please you? The cost of the AIB models is high, but that's to be expected, sadly, and the same will happend with the Nvidia models.

If 9070XT comes with 16GB of Vram and it costs $479, I think going for the 9070XT would be an easy recommendation against 5070 since the feature set is largely similar now that FSR is based on Ai upscaling. Radeon had a pretty strong showing against Nvidia's 70 series for some time now and I think the enhanced RT and new FSR along with 16GB of vram should be an easy sell.

But realistically, I think 9070 XT will be priced higher if it's actually as fast as a 7900XT to compete more closely to 5070 Ti while 9070 will be priced similarly to 5070 at the $479 price point. But we will see.

We've had leaks from AIB partners talking about 16GB of VRAM. That's the only thing we can be sure about the GPU.

I'm actually surprised by this rumored price point because I was certain that AMD would be lazy and go with, at best, $499 to beat the 5070 by $50. I also think it's a more "practical" sort of price as it would give AMD more room to price the other three cards that will come, the 9070, 9060XT and 9060. But who knows, maybe AMD is scared of Intel and will price the 9060 at $250 to fight the B580, having almost another $200 to fit the other two models.

In any case, the leaker is more credible than Moore's Law, and it goes well in line with what AMD has been saying of wanting to grow its marketshare against Nvidia.

But we'll see how it goes by the end of the month, hopefully.