MD unveiled its new Radeon RX 5700 line of graphics cards with 7nm chips at E3 last month, and with just days to go before they launch on July 7th, the company has announced new pricing. In the "spirit" of competition that it says is "heating up" in the graphics market -- specifically NVIDIA's "Super" new RTX cards -- all three versions of the graphics card will be cheaper than we thought.
The standard Radeon RX 5700 with 36 compute units and speeds of up to 1.7GHz was originally announced at $379, but will instead hit shelves at $349 -- the same price as NVIDIA's RTX 2060. The 5700 XT card that brings 40 compute units and up to 1.9GHz speed will be $50 cheaper than expected, launching at $399. The same goes for the 50th Anniversary with a slightly higher boost speed and stylish gold trim that will cost $449 instead of $499.
That's enough to keep them both cheaper than the $499 RTX 2070 Super -- we'll have to wait for the performance reviews to find out if it's enough to make sure they're still relevant.
AMD fires back at 'Super' NVIDIA with Radeon RX 5700 price cuts
And in the same vein
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The problem is that the 2060 Super and the 2070 Vanilla perform so similarly and are specced so similarly (I'll use Wikipedia's table for ease of comparison), that a 5-10% performance improvement for $50-$75 more, as clocks and cooling will vary a great deal between nVidia's board partners...Still, if nVidia can target the 2070 Vanilla at the $425-$450 mark, that's really going to have to make AMD slice prices...
Right now I wouldn't advise buying any AMD Navi or nVidia RTX card.
With AMD they are too expensive, their prices are way too close to nVidia's to make sense at this time, and lack ray tracing, meaning their "future-proof-ness" is severely hampered, especially given the advancements Microsoft and Intel are making into ray tracing which is making it much more accessible to even the low end cards and is allowing it to be implemented in even low spec games such as Minecraft and World Of Tanks, not to mention their drivers and features are quite lacking compared to nVidia at this time.
With nVidia, their prices are higher than AMD as they have no real competition, and with Ampere so close, 1H2020, and with the amount of rumors surrounding them, including much faster, power efficient, and a large ray tracing improvement, there's the distinct possibility that it will be to Turning what the HD 4000, 5000, and 7000 series for AMD were for their predecessors, large improvements in performance, not just incremental little updates, but even if it isn't the case they're still too soon on the market to justify an RTX Turing card at their current prices.
Right now, if I absolutely positively had to buy a GPU...it'd have to be the GTX 1660 Super. Its performance and speed are linearly higher than the RX 590 (22.4% both) as the 1660 Super is +/- a couple of FPS of the 1660 Ti, but power consumption is half of the RX 590, and drivers are more feature rich. Turing RTX is twice the price and shouldn't be considered at this time. There is an argument the RX 580 would be a stopgap until Ampere due to its low price and $50 jump to the 1660 Super, as I have zero faith in AMD to repair the fuster cuck of a Radeon situation by then since Lisa Su has shown absolutely zero indication of a price or performance war the way she has with processors against Intel.
