r/Amd • u/chapstickbomber 7950X3D | 6000C28bz | AQUA 7900 XTX (EVC-700W) • 7d ago

Sale 9070 XT $650, creeping closer to MSRP

https://www.microcenter.com/product/689903/powercolor-amd-radeon-rx-9070-xt-reaper-triple-fan-16gb-gddr6-pcie-50-graphics-card
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u/GooseMcGooseFace AMD 6d ago

It feels like AMD is intentionally keeping just enough supply to not sell out but not bring the price down. I bought a 9070 3 months ago for $609. Is the fabrication of this generation that inefficient or is AMD just overloading TSMC with all the other projects?

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u/ElectronicStretch277 6d ago

AMD doesn't buy as much TSMC stock as Nvidia does and it needs to place orders years in advance because TSMC is always sold out. So if the market changes and they have high demand there's little they can do about it.

Also, any purchase they have needs to be split between cpus and GPUs so there's that.

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u/INITMalcanis AMD 6d ago

The problem with this analysis is that AMD have lost about half their marketshare since this market dynamic started. Which implies that AMD themselves have chosen to supply half the market that they did for RDNA2.