AMD Announces Radeon RX 5700 XT & RX 5700: The Next Gen of AMD Video Cards Starts on July 7th At $449/$379

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• SaberKOG91 - Monday, June 10, 2019 - link

  You can thank Nvidia for that one. AMD is just doing the smart thing and trying to earn higher margins rather than relying on volume shipments. I'm sure the prices will come down 100$ or more my Christmas.

• Phynaz - Monday, June 10, 2019 - link

  Oh sure, Nvidia held a gun to AMD’s head.
  
  Fanboys are idiots.

• SaberKOG91 - Monday, June 10, 2019 - link

  With all due respect, I am not a "fanboy". This is basic economics. If you price your product too far below that of a competitor, you decrease the perceived value of your product and miss out on higher margins. It's also important to recognize that a Turing refresh is on the way that will tack on 50-100$ to the successor of the 2070.

• Meteor2 - Tuesday, June 11, 2019 - link

  We won’t see any refreshes to the 20x0 cards this year. GPUs aren’t on a annual release cadence.

• SaberKOG91 - Tuesday, June 11, 2019 - link

  I'm talking about Nvidia's "Super" announcement. Faster GDDR6 for the existing cards. No different than the V100 refreshes.

• Meteor2 - Tuesday, June 11, 2019 - link

  There has been no announcement. There are rumours, which I place firmly in the “I’ll believe it when I see it” category. The rumours consist of bumping RAM up by 2 Gb, and possibly increasing memory bandwidth. I’m not sure either or both would make a great deal of difference to frame rates. The GPUs themselves would be unchanged.

• zinfamous - Monday, June 10, 2019 - link

  holy shit man. look at your pure garbage responses so far: you brought this nonsense here, and you only. "calling out fanboys" after introducing this garbage.
  
  what throwaway nvidia schwag did your lazy posts pay for, anyway?

• Phynaz - Monday, June 10, 2019 - link

  So, have anything to say about this $450 ripoff? Three years later and it’s $50 less than a GTX 1080. Of course if you were waiting for another hot clocked AMD furnace then I guess you will be thrilled.

• SaberKOG91 - Monday, June 10, 2019 - link

  The 2070 is currently 15% faster than a 1080 and sells for anywhere from 490-550+ USD. No one is paying 500$ for a 1080 without getting ripped off. Even if the 5700XT is only on par with 2070, it's 15% faster than the 1080 and at 40-100$ cheaper than the 2070.
  
  The Radeon VII runs ~10C hotter than the 2070 (74C) while drawing 60W more under load. The 5700XT has a 75W lower TDP than VII. So it stands to reason that it will not run much hotter than the 2070, even before we factor in AMD's blower redesign.

• Phynaz - Tuesday, June 11, 2019 - link

  The 2070 has many features this card doesn’t. Only fanboys are happy to pay 2019 prices for 2016 tech.