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I know that some of you have the Radeon RX 9070, but don't have the drivers for it.

I don't have the card, but I have the drivers.

I'll provide you the drivers and let you benchmark the card for 2 weeks, I'll then borrow the card for two weeks before returning it to you.

I'll leave my Radeon RX 7900 XTX as collateral while I borrow your Radeon RX 9070.
 
Advil said:
Dear sir,

I am a prince from Nigeria, I want to transfer my entire fortune of RDNA 9070XT cards out of my warehouse due to a water leak...
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Nah, I think he's legit. His typing / sentence structure is the same as all his other older posts, looks to be quite a hardware enthusiast.
 
Well, that's what OP is trying to figure out ;)

The more interesting question, is how does OP have the drivers...?
 
I think we are all curious. Would be kind of fun to have a [H] member scoop the numbers early.
 
Sumanji said:
Well, that's what OP is trying to figure out ;)

The more interesting question, is how does OP have the drivers...?
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They were the launch drivers, but I guess that AMD decided that having a good first impression is better than beating NVIDIA out the door with broken products and fixing later.
 
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Great way for AMD to figure out where their truckload of missing cards went to.
 
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_mockingbird said:
I know that some of you have the Radeon RX 9070, but don't have the drivers for it.

I don't have the card, but I have the drivers.

I'll provide you the drivers and let you benchmark the card for 2 weeks, I'll then borrow the card for two weeks before returning it to you.

I'll leave my Radeon RX 7900 XTX as collateral while I borrow your Radeon RX 9070.
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No one that actually has the card is allowed to let you borrow it. NDA's and all of that. Also, we are probably too far away from release for anyone to have one. Reviewers aren't going to get samples until 7-10 business days out from the date the embargo lifts in most cases.
 
Dan_D said:
No one that actually has the card is allowed to let you borrow it. NDA's and all of that. Also, we are probably too far away from release for anyone to have one. Reviewers aren't going to get samples until 7-10 business days out from the date the embargo lifts in most cases.
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AMD started shipping it out back in December.
 
Who would throw away years and effort of building up their sites/channels and their relations with AMD to satisfy some guy's curiosity a few weeks early? Chances are, they would be blacklisted by the whole industry.
 
I think the target is retailer, is there much gap between the time reviewer physically get the card and get drivers for it ? (I was under the impression that no, so they would not care about this offer)

Not sure if it would need to be someone with that high and that much to loose in the retail business doing it, and AMD probably just pissed a bunch off, I could fear some form of phoning home with serial number to it.

Lot of reviewer told numbres to people before the NDA, that easier to be sure it will not be tracked back to you versus hardware to someone you do not know....
 
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I think we should send both the drivers and card to a neutral party, that's the only way it's truly fair. I will, albeit reluctantly, volunteer myself. It's a cross I'm willing to bear for the sake of the community.
 
I've been in the review business a long time and I've never heard of getting the hardware before the drivers. In fact, it's usually the other way around. The manufacturers usually give you a heads up that they are sending hardware your way and then provide a link to a secure site to pull down the driver's and download press materials in advance of the hardware arriving.

Typically, though not always, you get the hardware no more than 7-10 business days ahead of the embargo date. Sometimes you get a bit more lead time but not much more than previously stated. I have seen hardware well in advance of that but I can count those cases on one hand with a finger or two left over.
 
Dan_D said:
I've been in the review business a long time and I've never heard of getting the hardware before the drivers. In fact, it's usually the other way around. The manufacturers usually give you a heads up that they are sending hardware your way and then provide a link to a secure site to pull down the driver's and download press materials in advance of the hardware arriving.

Typically, though not always, you get the hardware no more than 7-10 business days ahead of the embargo date. Sometimes you get a bit more lead time but not much more than previously stated. I have seen hardware well in advance of that but I can count those cases on one hand with a finger or two left over.
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It helps to know someone in the Radeon's drivers team.
 
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