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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• elwro - Tuesday, June 11, 2019 - link

  Sapphire will fix it

• AshlayW - Monday, June 10, 2019 - link

  I am really disappointed with the price, like, really disappointed. Honestly they don't really bring a lot new to the table and as far as I can tell with the reference design: 8+6 pin means it isn't really that efficient if it needs that power. And the blower, ugh, just no.
  
  I knew this wasn't for me, I am happy to stay with my Radeon VII +Kraken G12+Asetek 570LC modification until next year but I was kinda hoping these RX 5700XT and 5700 to be priced like 349 and 299 respectively. Yes... Please don't hate on me, I know AMD isn't a charity and 7nm process is likely expensive but this chip succeeds Polaris and i was hoping it would be priced like it. Honestly I think custom Vega 56 for £250 is still the champ - these cards are readily available for this price here.
  
  I await Big Navi RDNA+HBM2, or maybe I get an Nvidia 7nm card, but I will not pay more than 699 US / £650 for the card and I will not buy with less than 11 GB of Video Memory.

• AshlayW - Monday, June 10, 2019 - link

  Please don't hate me for "bashing AMD" : I am just a bit negative today and seeing the down sides of all things.

• Opencg - Tuesday, June 11, 2019 - link

  I agree. The rumors had these things priced WAAAY lower. If they come out slightly agead of the 2070 then there's maybe reason for excitemen. But I honestly think that the favorable comparison amd showed off today was all best case benchmarks. Either way maybe they have some room to come down. So a price war in the mid teir may be what they are trying to encite vs nvidia. (They would probably benefit more to eliminate nvidias margins before they drop)
  
  Oh well wait for the benchmarks I guess. I really freaking hope they lose the f$^^#&= blower syle cards for navi 20. seriously

• Meteor2 - Tuesday, June 11, 2019 - link

  People seem to be under the illusion that 7nm is cheap to manufacture. It’s not! It costs more than the next-larger nodes.

• PixyMisa - Tuesday, June 11, 2019 - link

  Currently it costs as much per transistor as 12nm, so nearly twice as much for a given die area. That will come down, but right now it is not cheap.

• Opencg - Tuesday, June 11, 2019 - link

  I agree. I bought into the hype for 2 reasons. Navi was supposed to use a new architecture that could scale well using inerposers. If that is true well they didn't use it for these cards.
  
  The second reason is that the current generation of cards are still greatly inflated in price due to rtx and tensor cores taking up silicon. I was hoping that AMD could just match pascals value and that would give them an edge. They only got halfway there though. Perhaps they are making insane margins on these and have room to go down.
  
  Either way it's a half let down for me. Im still waiting for the day when a dollar could buy as much performance as the 10 series when mining wasn't inflating.

• Irata - Tuesday, June 11, 2019 - link

  Same here as far as price is concerned - was hoping for at least $50 less, but if nVidia responds with either faster spec and or lower price RTX 2060 / 2070 then we may still see lower prices across the board with everyone winning, regardless of which brand they prefer.
  
  In the end, we will have to wait for reviews and what else RX5700 contains in terms of features.

• eva02langley - Thursday, June 13, 2019 - link

  This is what fanboys don't understand. It was planned by AMD when they heard about Super.

• catavalon21 - Friday, July 5, 2019 - link

  As it turns out, the 5700 XT just became $50 less - 2 days before launch!