Whereas 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 immediately. We’ve been monitoring costs on ten particular fashions of the AMD 9070 and AMD 9070 XT that had been initially launched at their $550 and $600 MSRPs.
None of these playing cards are at the moment in inventory at any retailer we’ve checked — however some retailers have already modified their pricetags forward of recent shipments. Listed here are the adjustments we’ve seen:
Not each retailer has modified out the pricetags on each card. Finest Purchase, 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 Middle 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 occurring 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 had been initially listed at MSRP costs. Finest Purchase, Newegg, and Micro Middle are nonetheless itemizing those they inventory at MSRP immediately.
Final week, AMD instructed us that “we anticipate playing cards to be out there 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.