AMD Adjusts Launch Price of Radeon RX 5700 Series: XT Down To $399, Standard Down To $349

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• BenSkywalker - Saturday, July 6, 2019 - link

  Make yourselves look bad at E3 in front of the gaming world to say gotcha in front of the tiny niche GPU tech community a month later?
  
  Best case scenario they best nVidia perf/$ and look like fools who had to back pedal, worst case they are comparable to nVidia or worse and look incredibly greedy and foolish.
  
  AMD PR only looks good to rabid AMD fans. To anyone with a passing blue about PR it's 'what the f45k are you doing?'

• AshlayW - Saturday, July 6, 2019 - link

  Okay, AMD. I see what you've done here.
  
  Consider my RTX 2070 Super purchasing plans on hold.
  
  5700XT for 399 looks really very nice for the performance there. But part of me still wants to wait till these cards are 250-300, like next year. But also Idk if I am "comfortable" spending like 400 quid on a GPU without hardware ray tracing capabability. I know it doesn't mean a lot right now, but it's just a part of me thinking it's not as forward looking as I'd like it to be (hence i want to pay lower prices).
  
  Ugh.

• V900 - Saturday, July 6, 2019 - link

  Looks like AMD panicked and blinked first, when the 20XX Super’s were announced.
  
  Too bad.
  
  A 50$ price cut will absolutely cut into their profits, and the extra sales they’ll make probably won’t make up for it.
  
  Why? Simple:
  
  If an Nvidia card costs the same as a Radeon card and has similar performance, most GPU-agnostic gamers would go for the Nvidia. Not just because of the power of their brand, but also because the better features like Raytracing and DLSS.

• V900 - Saturday, July 6, 2019 - link

  Looks like Navi is a slightly better buy now, but the price cut won’t be enough to move the needle in a major way.
  
  The 5700XT has similar or slightly higher performance as the 2060S. But it lacks Raytracing, so many gamers would go for the more futureproof 2060S.
  
  (And it’s just 100$ more for a high end card like the 2070S)
  
  And it’s the same situation with the 5700. The same price and similar performance as the 2060 hardly makes it a great buy.
  And when the 2060S only costs 50$ more, most folks would go for that.

• Korguz - Sunday, July 7, 2019 - link

  v900..that may be the case in the US.. but in other countries.. the price difference.. could be A LOT more, and there fore..the better buy.. could be with the navi cards.... but until navi is released.. and there are 3rd party benchmarks out.. this is still unknown.... who knows what the prices for the the super cards and navi will be in other countries yet ....

• Gigaplex - Sunday, July 7, 2019 - link

  This generation of raytracing isn't powerful enough to be future proof. Get what works best for the games you play today.

• webdoctors - Sunday, July 7, 2019 - link

  This a joke? These price drops is basically the sales tax and shipping depending on the retailer you get it from in the USA.
  
  If a Mercedes and a KIA have the same HP and priced the SAME which car would you get? Its not even a debate....The cards need to drop by $100 to make it more clear to the consumer, otherwise without the raytracing feature its DOA.
  
  Its like the Ryzen CPUs, I'm buying it over the Intel ones at the same price because I get the SMT multicore too, that's a huge win!

• Korguz - Sunday, July 7, 2019 - link

  IF navi is less then the 2070/2060, and has the same performance, why bother with ray tracing ???? personally, id grab a navi based card in that case, NONE of the games i play have ray tracing, and in some cases.. the performance hit.. isnt worth it unless you go 2070 or 2080, and then, those cards are way to expensive... no one i know personally, even cares about ray tracing right now, for pretty much the same reasons i have. in some ways.. its funny how some put so much weight into ray tracing, considering how so few games can use it.. even saying its " future proof " isnt all that good, as by the time other games use it.. the next version of the hardware will be out, and maybe the performance hit.. wont be as bad....
  
  as for your comparison between the Benz and the KIA.. i'd take the kia, over all it would be cheaper to maintain, and personally.. i just dont like Mercedes to begin with :-)

• UltraLeader - Sunday, July 7, 2019 - link

  $399 is still too expensive. Why compare with nVidia extremely overpriced company ? Why not just make a real reasonable price ? RX 5700 XT only worth $249 because no ray tracing tech and only 2560 Stream Processors. In 2019, Stream Processors must be double to 5120 !!! 2560 is like nothing special !! and can not play 4K 60+ FPS !! Why make card that can not run 4K 60 FPS ? and still sell expensive ?

• silverblue - Sunday, July 7, 2019 - link

  You can't ever go off stream processor count. Navi != Polaris in this area. In the case of Navi, they should be more efficient and far better utilised. As such, there's little chance that a 5700 will perform like an RX 590.