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
nVidia gives something much better than games on most of their cards: cash rebates. Take the GTX 1660 for example, which, thanks to mail in rebates, is now the same price as the RX 5500XT, making the RX 5500XT irrelevant. Free games are worthless, especially if they're tied to online stores you don't use or are buggy as heck for a year until they're fully fixed, cash in hand is worth the cash, especially if the segment you're competing in is very performance-per-dollar oriented, which in this world of heavily inflated GPU prices is all of them except the ultra high end.
Speaking of the VII, it seems AMD has cut the price on it. Still too expensive for what it is.
Sadly there are quite a number of people with more money than sense, and many times that number who shrug and can't wait to hand over their money for a product at inflated prices. I think what happened in Japan with the 3950X's launch at the equivalent of $900 proved that yet again, and the billions nVidia has made on very inflated, first generation RTX cards proves it again, though both are really due to lack of competition. Heck, there's articles out today about how a third party modder has created a custom nVidia ReShade filter for Halo Reach which adds ray tracing lighting effects, and charges $5 for it.
Sad thing is, as long as this keeps showing green, we aren't getting any relief.
Here's an interesting story too: nVidia G-Sync monitors will now work with AMD GPUs.
https://www.wccftech.com/amd-graphics-cards-and-consoles-will-work-with-future-g-sync-displays-nvidia-confirms/
I can believe it. AMD and nVidia have both had a number of really big disasters on the road, probably most people will remember AMD's first DirectX 10 card, the HD 2900/XT/Pro was unbelievably hot, loud, and blown out of the water by nVidia (I had a 2900 Pro...), and nVidia had the GTX 480 and 580 (Fermi) which was also so hot AMD made fun of them in a Youtube video, although the 580 thrashed AMD's offering, even the 5970 outside of very few Crossfire games. I just wish some state or country would start slinging this word around and do some investigation...I can't think of a better word to use when one party sets prices equal to a second party when they have an inferior product.
Can you think of a single reason to buy any Navi card?
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15090/the-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1650-super-review
According to Intel, DG1 isn't suffering and will be on track probably for a CES reveal, although DG1 is still going to be very entry level, although since AMD and nVidia have both abandoned the sub $100 space, they will be in an uncontested market.
https://www.wccftech.com/intel-fires-back-at-dg1-gpu-rumors/
