While it’s true that board companions like ASRock, Gigabyte, PowerColor, Sapphire, and XFX typically cost extra for playing cards with fancier cooling options, these aren’t the playing cards we’re speaking about as we speak. We’ve been monitoring costs on ten particular fashions of the AMD 9070 and AMD 9070 XT that have been initially launched at their $550 and $600 MSRPs.
None of these playing cards are at present in inventory at any retailer we’ve checked — however some retailers have already modified their pricetags forward of recent shipments. Here are the adjustments we’ve seen:
Not each retailer has modified out the pricetags on each card. Best Buy, which solely listed a single mannequin of the 9070 and 9070 XT at MSRP to start with, hasn’t modified these costs but — although they’re admittedly nonetheless out of inventory. (It additionally now lists a pair of out-of-stock Gigabyte playing cards at MSRP.) Micro Center additionally nonetheless lists three fashions of 9070 and 4 fashions of 9070 XT at MSRP, although all are out of inventory.
On the Nvidia entrance, there doesn’t appear to be a lot retailer/board companion scalping happening but, not less than at main US retailers. We’re monitoring six completely different fashions of $550 RTX 5070, three completely different fashions of $750 RTX 5070 Ti, and three completely different fashions of $1,000 RTX 5080 which have been initially listed at MSRP costs. Best Buy, Newegg, and Micro Center are nonetheless itemizing those they inventory at MSRP as we speak.
Last week, AMD instructed us that “we anticipate playing cards to be accessible from a number of distributors at $549 / $599,” and that extra playing cards are coming. AMD didn’t say which board companions or retailers would agree to supply playing cards at these costs, or how few these companions must promote at these costs earlier than charging extra.
