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Igor says, if you are planning on buying the 9070xt, then buy it immediately
Will Radeon RX 9070 XT Soon Cost 200 Euros More? Insights into Material and Manufacturing Costs, Cost Calculations, and Manufacturer Margins
22. May 2026 05:30
Igor Wallossek
The RX 9070 XT is currently less a normal product in price comparisons than an indicator of a delayed cost wave. The visible price apparently does not yet reflect the current FOB pressure everywhere. That is precisely why the card still appears comparatively attractive in May 2026, even though it is objectively not cheap. The real message is therefore not that graphics cards have become more expensive. The real message is that part of the price increase may not yet have fully reached the shelf.
https://www.igorslab.de/en/mid-range-gpus-2026-material-manufacturing-costs-margins-trends/
Exclusive: AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE launches June 1st at $549 globally - VideoCardz.com
AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE gets global launch with 12GB memory
VideoCardz has learned that AMD is launching the Radeon RX 9070 GRE globally on June 1. The card will carry a $549 starting price, which puts it directly into the same MSRP slot as the Radeon RX 9070 non-XT at launch.
Same price as the RX 9070 at launch
AMD’s own comparison slide now lists the RX 9070 as “starting at $619”, so it is not clear whether the non-XT model is being moved up, reduced in availability, or simply compared using current retail pricing rather than launch MSRP. The PCPartPicker confirms that RX 9070 is now sold for $599+.
Official performance
AMD’s internal performance claims compare the RX 9070 GRE against GeForce RTX 50 series cards at 1440p Ultra settings on a Ryzen 7 9800X3D system. AMD claims the GRE is 22% faster on average than the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB across more than 40 games and offers 26% better value based on its pricing comparison. Against the GeForce RTX 5070, AMD claims a smaller 2% performance lead and 4% better value.
https://videocardz.com/newz/exclusive-amd-radeon-rx-9070-gre-launches-june-1st-at-549-globally
ASUS, Sapphire and XFX are the first board partners tied to the global rollout. Retail listings have already shown the ASUS PRIME RX 9070 GRE O12G, Sapphire PULSE Radeon RX 9070 GRE Gaming OC 12GB and XFX Swift Radeon RX 9070 GRE Triple Fan models, including a white XFX variant. These are custom cards, as AMD has not shown a reference model for this SKU.
I have 2x 5090 and one of the founders cards is still in the box so for me yes the worst is behind me yeah
eBay?I have 2x 5090 and one of the founders cards is still in the box so for me yes the worst is behind me yeah
It has been the plan to kill the "Personal" computer. They want to move everyone to a dumb terminal. Where you will pay a subscription for a certain level of performance and a subscription for additional services. Why do you think they are building our all these huge data centers all over the world. They are not just for AI and surveillance state. You will own nothing or any privacy and like it!Is the worse behind us? Absolutely not; that is yet to come I'm afraid. I wouldn't be surprise if this is part of the plan to kill off the component market. Cloud gaming, where you will own nothing.. or pre-built OEM PC's ... but no DIY... that is the future landscape
who is they ? at the current margin, I am not sure they mind selling stuff at all....It has been the plan to kill the "Personal" computer. They want to move everyone to a dumb terminal.
Someone needs to crank out those new 3060s!Man my Walmart got rid of their 5070Tis and just has 5080s in stock now for $1200... rough times ahead. 5070Ti was the best value card this gen IMO, besides a lower tier 5060Ti maybe. 5070 is a bit of an awkward duckling with 12GB VRAM.
I just searched walmart.com out of curiosity and there's a bunch of opportunistic 3rd parties already pushing $1500-1800 5070Tis (although there's still a lot of $1000-1100 models.) For comparison Microcenter's still in the $1000-11000 range too, with a few around $1150.Man my Walmart got rid of their 5070Tis and just has 5080s in stock now for $1200... rough times ahead. 5070Ti was the best value card this gen IMO, besides a lower tier 5060Ti maybe. 5070 is a bit of an awkward duckling with 12GB VRAM.
I hate typing this but:It has been the plan to kill the "Personal" computer. They want to move everyone to a dumb terminal. Where you will pay a subscription for a certain level of performance and a subscription for additional services. Why do you think they are building our all these huge data centers all over the world. They are not just for AI and surveillance state. You will own nothing or any privacy and like it!
Man my Walmart got rid of their 5070Tis and just has 5080s in stock now for $1200... rough times ahead. 5070Ti was the best value card this gen IMO, besides a lower tier 5060Ti maybe. 5070 is a bit of an awkward duckling with 12GB VRAM.
You can still get RTX 5070 Ti's at Newegg for $909.99. Discount codes for certain RTX 5070 Ti's bring the prices down to $909.99 before taxes. Trade-up one of your RTX 3070's or 3080's, and you get $200 or $290 trade-in value, respectively. It's about the same or slightly better than selling on eBay after fees and shipping.I just searched walmart.com out of curiosity and there's a bunch of opportunistic 3rd parties already pushing $1500-1800 5070Tis (although there's still a lot of $1000-1100 models.) For comparison Microcenter's still in the $1000-11000 range too, with a few around $1150.
lol no man, I bought a falcon Northwest tiki with a 5090 then i called falcon northwest and asked them to sell me another one for my "other computer" I don't have the other computer anymore but i will always be in the system for that build LOL BAM.eBay?
Some news here on coming capacity...
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-com...-double-memory-wafer-capacity-over-five-years
You can get a 9060 XT with 16GB at Microcenter in Dallas right now for 390. Yes, that is more money, but well worth the modern architecture.
I have both, for the money the 9070XT wins hands down for gaming Frame/$. If other factors are involved, AI, professional programs then the 5070Ti becomes more worth it.if 9070 is $650 then 9070 gre not worth more than $450
No, nvidia did.Man my Walmart got rid of their 5070Tis and just has 5080s in stock now for $1200... rough times ahead. 5070Ti was the best value card this gen IMO, besides a lower tier 5060Ti maybe. 5070 is a bit of an awkward duckling with 12GB VRAM.
I liken it to phones. We went from major changes every year (imagine going from an iPhone 3GS to an iPhone 4, for example) to incremental updates that only make sense after two (more likely three) years. You won't be in trouble if that AAA blockbuster plays at 60FPS instead of 70.I think we've also reached the point where a lot of people have changed how they buy GPUs. A few years ago I'd upgrade every generation without thinking too much about it, but now I ask whether the performance increase actually changes my experience.
If my current card already plays everything I enjoy at the settings I want, it's hard to justify paying hundreds of dollars more for another 20–30% performance. I'd rather skip a generation and make the upgrade feel significant.
I also think game optimization deserves more attention. Some of the most enjoyable games I play don't require flagship hardware, while a few newer titles can bring high-end GPUs to their knees without looking proportionally better.
I liken it to phones. We went from major changes every year (imagine going from an iPhone 3GS to an iPhone 4, for example) to incremental updates that only make sense after two (more likely three) years. You won't be in trouble if that AAA blockbuster plays at 60FPS instead of 70.
Around November Black Friday Deals I upgraded & Side-gradedThere's only so many smiley packs they can put on phones. I digress.
So glad I purchased a RTX 5070 before prices went haywire. If a RTX 5070 Ti had been available for a reasonable price I'd have gotten that instead.
Around November Black Friday Deals I upgraded & Side-graded
I picked up my 5070 TI at MSRP (or just under) and traded in my 7900XTX that was almost 2 years old into Newegg for 700 bucks. I was having anomalous issues with the 7900XTX and it was running HOT. AMD would not honor the hot spot warranty so, I feel like I got a pretty decent deal. I dumped the 7900XTX before it died and paid like 250 for the 5070Ti. Been stable and issue free ever since.
I also traded in my ancient 2080Ti Black against a 5070 Standard and got 250 for it. Now the wife and I are set for the apocalypse and then some.
Only thing I took for granted were the DDR5 prices going insane. So... No CPU upgrades in my future. Stuck on the 14700K and the 12900K until Cyberdyne shows up to kill us all.
I am guessing the PC upgrade hobby died overnight. Things look pretty damn bleak for it ever returning to normal. My love for hardware upgrades may never see another gaming rig again after this shit show....
I didn't go all that deep into my Radeon analysis. I paid 999 for it off AMD's website and got 700 toward the 5070Ti after 2 years of headaches. However, given my issues with it I am also loathe to jump back on the AMD wagon again. Nvidia's cards just seem to work correctly for everything I play (without issues of any sort). It's my hope that the fact that they don't draw as much power will keep the connector from lighting on fire...It's not the first time we've had a situation like this with memory before, to be fair. Balance can still return to the marketplace, but it's going to take time before that's able to happen. We might even become better off ultimately if enough new entrants come in seeing an opportunity to sell into a stronger market. Even on the GPU end, we might go from a 2 horse to a 3 horse race now that Intel knows they need GPUs to stay relevant in the new world.
Or none of that happens, we'll find out lol.
I didn't go all that deep into my Radeon analysis. I paid 999 for it off AMD's website and got 700 toward the 5070Ti after 2 years of headaches. However, given my issues with it I am also loathe to jump back on the AMD wagon again. Nvidia's cards just seem to work correctly for everything I play (without issues of any sort). It's my hope that the fact that they don't draw as much power will keep the connector from lighting on fire...
I think I have given up on Intel. They were iterating nicely gen on gen and then they just dropped their GPU division cold for anything other than datacenter. I suspect they will milk celestial (is that 3rd gen?) until they cant and iterate on it as an iGPU in some products ... however, they have an inked deal to incorporate Nvidia tiles in their CPUs... Nvidia signed on under the stipulation that they would not have Intel competition. IIRC
That being said I am a fan of the intel cards for their value. I have a a310 in a low profile case that's pretty damn impressive for a 4GB 64 bit card and was hoping for the b570 low profile that was teased (never released afaik). I have an ancient slim desktop case I shoved a 5600x and some drives into that is deceptively powerful. Could run a 5060 LP but I'm being cheap for a 4th system in my house I will likely never use much. It was more of a passion project than anything else.
Sorry about the prices up in Canada my friend. I feel for you. I was hoping your country would have elected Pierre Poliev(sp?) as he seemed based and very decent. Carney is like Trudeau on crack...x10...
There's an indie GPU builder out there. Gamers Nexus covered them, but their modular cards require drop in RAM kits. They were designed for development kits or something and say eventually they would come out with end user gaming GPUs but god knows if that will ever happen now. The way RAM prices are, might just destroy the company before it ever gets off the ground.
I have a 7900XTX which runs fine. Driver crashes have been rare but Adrenaline (control panel) likes to do so at random. I haven't tried much undervolting or overclocking because Star Citizen (and other Cryengine games) will hard crash the computer, had the same issue on Intel/NV. What do you mean by driver timeout?Out of curiosity, what specific issues were you having with the 7900XTX? You mentioned thermal ones, but was that translating into crashes/instability? Driver timeouts as well? I'm just trying to understand how widespread the issues are. AMD told me the card should run flawlessly at default settings, but everything I'm reading contradicts that idea. What's strange is my previous AMD card was an R9 280X which I had heavily overclocked and yet never experienced any problems. It was rock solid stable. I assumed most of the current Radeon issues stem from Adrenalin randomly cranking the shader clocks into unstable territory, but it shouldn't take AMD this long to fix an algorithm.
Intel's Lunar Lake performance gives me SOME hope. The MSI Claw 8 AI+ performance is incredibly compared to AMD's competing offering, and gives me some hope, but on the other hand, Intel's also been disappointing me consistently since Skylake, so the burden of proof remains on them.
Lol, don't get me started on the decline of Canada. It's been visible for a decade now, but people here remain largely in denial, and Trudeau/Carney keep getting voted in primarily by a cohort of Boomers who live on defined benefit pension plans and spend half the year in Florida, where they presumably talk about how much better Canada is than the United States. They're insulated from the impact of the policies they vote for, so they have a very different perspective on what Canada is compared to anyone under age 45. My wife and I would love to move to the US, but Trudeau cranked the exit taxes we would have to pay to move and it just isn't worth it anymore, so we're just hoping for the best for our two kids.
I did see GN's video, but that's a "wait and see" for me. Competing in the GPU space right now is incredibly difficult. Nvidia, AMD, and Intel have the money, the patents, and the market reach that will make it difficult for new entrants without deep pockets. My bet would be the first viable competitor would have to come out of a place like China, where the CCP will give them whatever support they need since they need a domestic solution that is competitive. I could see a company like Huawei coming out with a decent chip, for example.
I have a 7900XTX which runs fine. Driver crashes have been rare but Adrenaline (control panel) likes to do so at random. I haven't tried much undervolting or overclocking because Star Citizen (and other Cryengine games) will hard crash the computer, had the same issue on Intel/NV. What do you mean by driver timeout?
It would be pleasing to see the rug yanked out from under everyone on GPUs, especially in regards to RT which blows right now, but I'm not too hopeful.
I have found that unstable memory overclocks can cause these issues as well. For some reason the voltage setting in bios for my memory was changed which caused just a tiny bit of instability but it would always state the video card driver stopped responding. I thought something was going on with the video card until I noticed the memory voltage was set wrong in the bios.
I think that's happened once. My card runs at stock or -10% power limit in lieu of undervolting, typically the latter, and thankfully I've not had any issues like those you've described. Linux has been problem free but I haven't spent as much time with it running versus Windows.I would see pop-ups saying "AMD software detected that a driver timeout has occurred" from time to time when the card crashes. It happens when the driver doesn't respond to Windows in a specific amount of time. You can find all sorts of "solutions" for it online, but the only one that comes close to working is a hard cap on shaders. The problem with that is two things. First, Adrenalin will still shoot past your cap from time to time. The second is you have to set it BELOW the specified boost clock from your card due to the first thing, so you're leaving performance on the table. For me, the most stable driver was Adrenalin 25.12.1 with a shader cap set at 2450MHz (card spec was 2500), but then once Adrenalin 26 came out, the system would hard crash, which seemed to be most likely OCP tripping. Reseating the card fixed things for a while, but then it OCP tripped again in a subsequent driver update and I gave up trying. Sent my DxDiag file to AMD, who commented it was unusually large and might be indicating an issue with the card.
The problem is, the behaviour I saw is not uncommon based on what I was reading online. From what I read, Nvidia's drivers are more forgiving with Windows to those little hiccups.
I've read AMD's better with Linux than with Windows, but I've yet to try it. My son's running Bazzite on my old 1070 Ti that I'd ultimately like to upgrade so his younger brother has a card when he gets old enough to be interested in a couple of years, and I fully intend to keep him on Bazzite, so AMD would be my default choice, but I also don't want anymore headaches.
Is the worst behind us? Nah, it's probably still ahead. But currently it might be the worst so far. At my location in the EU 5090: $6 000, 5080: $2 000 on average.
These are the current price ranges at the biggest retailer (on the plus side all are readily available in at least a dozen variants, even the 5090):Safe to say PC upgrading is going to be dead for a while in your country. How much is a **50/60 card going for? Or AMD's equivalent?
Where is this? It's not the USA.These are the current price ranges at the biggest retailer (on the plus side all are readily available in at least a dozen variants, even the 5090):
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