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JEMC said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Going by the latest Steam survey, it seems like yes, they do already.

Time for Steam to put a bit more effort into their survey and correctly add the Radeon cards into the system, unless they want 10%+ to be seen as DX8 cards...

The doubt is if AMD will be dumb enough to copy Nvidia and cut production of the consumer 9070s, losing the option to sell loads of GPUs by being the only option available and claiming back much needed marketshare from Nvidia.

It's hard to believe AMD would do something like that, but there's been lots of examples of AMD making dumb decisions that seriously hurt them.

Doesn't look like AMD is going to do something like that. In fact, it seems like they're trying to keep the prices of GPUs down:

https://www.techpowerup.com/345251/amd-closely-tracking-memory-ecosystem-and-working-with-aibs-to-maintain-radeon-msrps

We will end up with a 9070XT that is about 10% slower than a 5080 but more like 40% cheaper at this rate, because I'm sure NVidia will raise the prices for the 5080 while they're at it with the cancellation of the 5070Ti.

Edit: Having chosen GDDR6 instead of GDDR7 might be playing in their favor too. GDDR6 is based on DDR4, which has less demand than DDR5, so availability is probably somewhat higher for those chips.

Last edited by Bofferbrauer2 - on 16 January 2026