@JEMC Microcenters posted the number of 9070 series cards they had at launch for the people that lined up for cards. 2-4x would be conservative based on those numbers. Granted that's one retail chain. 

AC games always perform better on ADM GPUs, but I find it surprising that even with RT, 9070XT beats 5070Ti (and, no surprise, 9070 smacks around 5070).

I'm not sure if this is just the case of AC games being highly optimized for AMD architecture or most other games being optimized for nVidia RTX, but it's interesting to see.

Moores Law is Dead has an extreme AMD bias.
He has been known to delete videos where his statements were incorrect.

He has zero credibility.

There is however... No doubt in my mind that the AMD Radeon 9070/9070XT has been the success AMD has needed for a long time in the GPU space.

nVidia however is still selling every GPU it makes with it's higher prices... Just not to gamers.

One thing I wanted to preamble: the 200000 GPUs number for AMD isn't true.

It's probably even higher, considering that AMD sold 1.35M GPUs in Q4 2024, which would have been a higher median GPU sale number per week than those 200k that got widely reported but denied by AMD ever being said. The real value has thus to be higher than that to be really "unprecedented" as AMD claimed.

About the news above, MLiD by far isn't the only one reporting about much higher shipments to retailers from AMD than NVidia, so even with a pro-AMD bias from him it's probably safe to say that AMD outshipped NVidia with their first batch.

I'm also looking at the stock numbers and prices on one local store here on a quasi-daily basis, and one thing that strikes me is that the only NVidia card that really gets any restocks in the last 10 days are the 5070 cards (one small restock for the 5080 and 5090, both at massively inflated prices of 1500€ and 3200€), and what I can see here is that the prices are dropping quite a bit. Retailers and board partners are probably seeing that the 5070 doesn't sell well enough to get them into the hands of customers at prices above 800€ (Those two 5070 cards have been in stock ever since, and every new shipment drops the price of the cheapest 5070 cards a bit lower); in fact the most expensive 5070 is more expensive than the most expensive 9070XT that I could find, even adding those models that are not in stock.

With the stock situation on the 5070 front improving and the 9070 making some stiff competition, 5070 Boardpartners are probably facing a big dilemma right now: either sell the cards with low margins or not at all, as the AMD competition is simply to strong to screw the prices up by much anymore.

AMD boardpartners meanwhile can raise their prices much easier right now, considering that the 9070 beats the 5070 in performance and the 5070Ti is becoming very rare as NVidia is concentrating on the 5080 (and it's professional counterparts), leaving just few chips to make 5070Ti (and with the missing ROPs on the 5080, even less than supposed to be, as those could have become 5070Ti cards without a fuss) and their supply run dry, so the 9070XT is running practically unopposed in it's price class apart of previous-gen leftovers.

The 9070s stock at launch was way bigger than Nvidia had, and it's true that many sources, not only Microcenter, said that the 9070 outsold the whole 5000 cards almost after launch.

However, the article was about the supply that's coming in and, if that's true, then the situation will get worse and worse for Nvidia unless they can manage to pull an ace up their sleeve, like a massive restock out of nowhere plus a price cut for the two 5070 cards.

DSOG had an article the other day about Nvidia struggling with Shadows. That, combined with what you said, that AC games tend to run better on AMD hardware, plays a role explaining those results.

But as the video from Hardfware Unboxed showed, both AMD and Nvidia have work to do in their drivers with some titles, because the cards can't show their real power.

It's absolutely true that MLID is not a reliable source, and that's why I added the part about taking it with some salt, but it can't be denied that sometimes he's been right.

You know, the whole "even a broken clock is rigth twice a day". We can't just take everything he says aside.

I think we won't see major changes in prices until supply has fully met the current demand, but it's obvious that they'll come sooner rather than later, especially for the 5070s, as those are the ones that are struggling the most.

But at the end of the day, it's mostly in the hands of the AIB partners to decide what to do... until stores stop buying cards because they can't sell them.

By the way, we now have the final specs for the 5060 and 5060Ti, as well as a rumored launch date:

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti final specs confirmed: GB206 GPU, 16/8GB GDDR7 and 2.57 GHz boost
https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5060-ti-final-specs-confirmed-gb206-gpu-16-8gb-gddr7-and-2-57-ghz-boost

GeForce RTX 5060 Ti rumored to launch on April 16th
https://videocardz.com/newz/geforce-rtx-5060-ti-rumored-to-launch-on-april-16th

With the launch of the 5060Ti 16GB, we'll know how much room does Nvidia have to lower the price of the 5070.

UK market has been changing the 9070XT launch looked to be so positive with MSRP cards and slightly above cards available and now it's just £799 flagship models and £719 mid-range models only getting restocked since launch so at the current prices they kind of suck and hopefully a mass shipment will arrive to make them good value again.

5080 and 5070Ti seem to be getting a lot of shipments this past week and prices seems to be slowly dropping with 5080's sitting in stock for many hours at 20% above MSRP and 5070Ti's available at £0-30 more than all the high priced 9070XT's and I even saw some 5080's at £1055 and £1099 this week (MSRP here is £979) so cards do seem to be trending back towards the reasonably above MSRP range at least for vendor cards but still not cheap.

Those at GOG are sneaky b*stards and are giving away a free game during the weekend.

Amerzone: The Explorer's Legacy (1999) will be free to get during another 46 hours: https://www.gog.com/en/game/amerzone_the_explorer_legacy

Its also free on Steam.

Grabbed it on Steam yesterday - gonna grab it on GOG now.

The remaster/remake is coming soon.

Oh, that explains the year in the name of the game.