If the price is right (like $450), this could be a nail in the coffin for both the 5060Ti 16GB and the 5070, as it will be considerably more powerful than the former at a similar price and just slightly less powerful than the latter for a much lower price.

With PCBs so tiny, it's not surprising to see tiny models with just one fan, like this one, perfect for HTPCs capable of gaming.

It's probably too late for AMD to scrap the 9060XT 8GB, but we can hope that this will show them what gamers think of these 8GB cards, at that price point, in 2025.

With a bit of luck, we could get the 9060XT 16GB version at $379 like the 5060Ti 8GB, to piss off Nvidia, and lower the price of the 8GB to something like the $359 and use it as a very obvious upsell. They would still be dragged through the mud, but a bit less than Nvidia.

I don't think it's reasonable to expect the $230 of the RX480 that the article mentions.

We still don't know if this card will release in the west. AMD has had several GRE cards and only made became a worldwide product.

I wish they would not just make short GPUs, but also half height ones, those are really rare nowadays.

As for the GRE, I think it will come out in the west, as it would fill a pretty big gap in the lineup between the 9070 and the 9060XT

We don't know how big the gap will be until AMD announced the price and its target performance, but we'll see.

As for half height cards: https://www.club386.com/gigabytes-low-profile-rtx-5060-is-ideal-for-a-dell-or-hp-pc-upgrade/

https://www.techpowerup.com/335630/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5060-ti-8-gb-variant-benched-by-chinese-reviewer-lags-behind-16-gb-sibling-in-dlss-4-test-scenario

It sucks.

The fact that it performs worse when using Nvidia's latest multi frame generation tech, that they used for the ridiculous x50 performance jump compared to the 1060 is so ironic.

Yeah the 9060XT only has 32CUs. The 9070 has 56CUs. You createa 9050XT with the 24CU difference in those cards. AMD needs something to fill that void. I'm in agreement that the 9070GRE will be a global release.

I have an old shit-box PC with a Core 2 Quad Q9650+8GB DDR3 Ram and a Geforce 1030 GDDR5 that I use for testing purposes, would absolutely jump at the chance for a modern RTX/RX GPU that was half height, single slot and performant with decent video blocks to drop into it.

It would be a boon for older HTPC's as well... I mean, the Half Height+single slot RX 6500XT is *technically* an option, but the board is only PCI-E 2.0, so performance would be demolished as the card only has 4x lanes.

3 weeks later, and the prices of the GPUs are in freefall - especially NVidia GPUs.

The 5070 has now dropped to 599€, so below MSRP in Europe. The 9070 meanwhile got a bit cheaper, but with 655€, it's a much smaller difference.

The 5070Ti is the one that dropped by far the most, now available for "just 889€, almost a 200€ drop in 3 weeks for what is probably the best GPU NVidia has in it's lineup right now. It did push the 9070XT to drop in price too, but not nearly as much, just down to 758€.

The 5080 also dropped hard to 1229€ while the 5090 is now available for "just" 2798€, a more than 200€ and 400€ drop in price respectively in just 3 weeks.

As for the newly launched 5060Ti, the 8GB version is available for €399 while the 16GB version is sold out, showing that even casual consumers don't want the 8GB version even at MSRP.

Stocks are not an issue anymore on NVidia's side apart from the newly launched 5060Ti  (of which there are only 2 8GB models, the second one at a ludicrous 532€ btw), which is pretty normal and should be stabilized in a week or two. It also shows that nobody wants a 5070 as there are 25 out of 27 models that are in stock, compared to 12 5080s, 10 5070Ti and 7 5090.

AMD however still has problems shipping enough GPUs, as there are only 5 9070XT and 2 9070 available. Hopefully the 9060 models and the potential worldwide release of the 9070GRE will relieve them of some pressure while they're waiting for more wafer shipments.

Will take awhile for AMD to spin up manufacturing to meet demand, they probably were conservative in their numbers due to their insignificant marketshare.