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Bofferbrauer2 said:

JEMC said:

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.

I hope they aren't just talking sh*t and will deliver on this, but it's the same AMD that said they would look into porting FR4 to older RDNA cards and never did it, while modders managed to do it.

So yeah, I hope they do it but, if I had to buy a GPU, I'd do it sooner rather than later. Just in case.

Conina said:

JEMC said:

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.

For 16 GB graphic cards, AMD will probably also prioritize 9070 XT GPUs and will cut production for 9070 (non-XT).

Partly defective Navi 48 chips they can't use for 9070 XT, they can sell as 9070 GRE with 12 GB instead of 9070 non-XT with 16 GB.

For 9060 XT GPUs they will prioritize the 8 GB models and cut the production of 16 GB models, perhaps ditch 9060 non-XT 8 GB, too.

So I expect

• 9060 XT 8 GB
• 9070 GRE 12 GB
• 9070 XT 16 GB

It kind of makes sense to replace the 9070 with the GRE model with less VRAM, even if there's a noticeable performance differene between both cards, but I' hate, with passion, to see the 9060 XT 16GB disapper.

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

ASUS issues a third RTX 5070 Ti clarification and walks back the earlier EOL claim

https://videocardz.com/newz/asus-issues-a-third-rtx-5070-ti-clarification-and-walks-back-the-earlier-eol-claim

Probably got a call from Nvidia lol

At least they've been honest and admitted that it all came from a "misunderstanding" from an Asus representative,which is quite rare nowadays. Someone else would have blamed Hardware Unboxed for reporting lies or false information.