AMD won't sell MBA (Made by AMD) Radeon RX 9070 series GPUs

[WYP]

AMD is marketing their "reference" RX 9070 XT design as an "artistic render" that is "not available for purchase.​

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[AngryGoldfish]

This could either be good or bad. I mean, that's an obvious statement, but my point is: If the MSRP for an AIB partner card is the official price and is, say, $650, that's likely to be the street price of what most people will have access to--as long as there are no other factors like poor supply inflating prices. Reference designs are notoriously difficult to purchase globally, so if a Sapphire Pulse is $650, you're more likely to be able to buy it at that price across the globe.

On the flipside, the MSRP could be $650 for a card that cannot be purchased. I don't know if that's legal, but AMD could pull an Nvidia and market their chips as a $500-650 GPU, yet not allow consumers to actually buy them for that price because AIB partners are tacking on $100-150 to the cost.

 

[AlienALX]

Sounds bad. Board partners these days are as greedy as the chip providers.

That said let us hope Sapphire stay grounded. They often do.

 

[KingNosser]

Then expect way higher prices very simple as nvidia aren’t selling 5090’s in aibs at 1999 are they nah you be lucky to get 2400 let alone the highest end models being 3600 the prices on these by comparison will be better that doesn’t mean they will be good value cards lol

 

[Dicehunter]

That's a shame, AMD's reference cards tend to look really nice and clean IMO and that render is really clean looking. This could be AMD yet again doing an AMD and AMD'ing the bed.

 

[AlienALX]

That's a shame, AMD's reference cards tend to look really nice and clean IMO and that render is really clean looking. This could be AMD yet again doing an AMD and AMD'ing the bed.

I don't think it's that. Their MBA are always slower than the AM cards. Mostly down to the cooler. I mean yeah, they look lovely but.....

There is only so much the AIBs can gouge when it comes to AMD cards. Simply as they are nowhere near as desirable. That may change, but like I said Sapphire keep the prices down and competitive. Which is nice. TBH if I was in the market for a brand new AMD card and Sapphire was an option I would deffo go with their cards. Always the best value. Thing is two out of three of the cards I have bought over the past 3 years were used. One was B grade from OCUK (the Strix LC, but it had to be water cooled to fit the case) and the other Toxic 6900XT was second hand. The only reason I bought the 6950XT MBA was because it was the only choice and was cheap. By that stage all of the Sapphire cards had gone and the only others were Asrock or Gigabyte and £100 more. Which in hindsight I am glad I did not pay, as I removed the MBA and went water on that card.