News AMD has reportedly sold nearly 200K RX 9070 GPUs worldwide

[Admin]

AMD claimed that it released 200,000 units for the initial release of its RX 9070-series GPUs.

AMD has reportedly sold nearly 200K RX 9070 GPUs worldwide : Read more

 

[g-unit1111]

And yet I can't find one in stock anywhere!

 

[spongiemaster]

Without any context, that number means nothing. Great reporting.

 

[My Ideas]

Nvidia has sold us out to AI. They are just taking advantage of us now.

 

[jlake3]

Without any context, that number means nothing. Great reporting.

According to an earlier article here that cited Jon Peddie Research, AMD moved 810,000 GPUs in the three months of Q3, and 1.43m in Q4.

For two weeks and only $550+ models, 200k units seems pretty good… but we know there was a large launch stockpile, so it’s almost certainly an unsustainable rate. We will have to see what they can produce on an ongoing basis, and what the totals look like once the Navi 44 cards hit.

 

[gg83]

Without any context, that number means nothing. Great reporting.

I was looking for any numbers to compare, but the article was lacking.

 

[helper800]

And yet I can't find one in stock anywhere!

This 9070 XT is sold by XFX on the Newegg XFX store. Its 270 above the 600 dollar base price but technically in stock and at "MSRP." Edit, now its out of stock 5 minutes later LOL!

 

[Gururu]

That’s like 100 million in sales. Not too shabby!

 

[spongiemaster]

According to an earlier article here that cited Jon Peddie Research, AMD moved 810,000 GPUs in the three months of Q3, and 1.43m in Q4.

For two weeks and only $550+ models, 200k units seems pretty good… but we know there was a large launch stockpile, so it’s almost certainly an unsustainable rate. We will have to see what they can produce on an ongoing basis, and what the totals look like once the Navi 44 cards hit.

If they sold 1.43 million in q4, that's 240k every 2 weeks. 200k in the first two weeks of release when they have been stock piling since early January does not seem pretty good at all. The article says AMD claimed they nearly sold out. So the number is something below 200k.

 

[helper800]

If they sold 1.43 million in q4, that's 240k every 2 weeks. 200k in the first two weeks of release when they have been stock piling since early January does not seem pretty good at all.

Depends on the comparison. If they were comparing to Nvidia selling 12 5000 series cards since launch then I would say its pretty good.

 

[spongiemaster]

Depends on the comparison. If they were comparing to Nvidia selling 12 5000 series cards since launch then I would say its pretty good.

AMD claimed "unprecedented demand." Those first two weeks didn't even match their average q4 sales. 2024 was such an abysmal year for gaming revenue, that AMD has eliminated the group and rolled it into the client group to hide the bad sales going forward. Typical BS marketing at work here.

 

[helper800]

AMD claimed "unprecedented demand." Those first two weeks didn't even match their average q4 sales. 2024 was such an abysmal year for gaming revenue, that AMD has eliminated the group and rolled it into the client group to hide the bad sales going forward. Typical BS marketing at work here.

Okay GPUPro. /s

 

[SyCoREAPER]

And yet I can't find one in stock anywhere!

Shouldn't have waited lol

I get not everyone is fortunate enough to have a Microcenter but they had hundreds of cards at multiple stores. Plenty to spare even hours after opening.
That aside it's not surprising they sold out. They perform close to a 5080 without RT, cost less and were the next logical choice since Nvidia pretended to have new GPUs.

Without any context, that number means nothing. Great reporting.

What sort of context do you want? Who's got the bigger stick? It's a factual number. Nvidia sold 10 GPUs worldwide, should the context be how many in comparison to what they wanted to sell? That would be meaningless.

Actually there's your context lol. AMD sold 200K cards compared to Nvidia's 10 cards worldwide.

 

[A Stoner]

Nvidia has sold us out to AI. They are just taking advantage of us now.

It is their job to sell out to the highest bidders... They have investors. Burning silicon that sell for $80 billion to make consumer silicon that would make them $12 billion would get them in hot water. I do not like not having access to cheap powerful graphics cards any more than anyone else likes it. But I am willing to face reality and understand why we are not getting what we want.

 

[jlake3]

If they sold 1.43 million in q4, that's 240k every 2 weeks. 200k in the first two weeks of release when they have been stock piling since early January does not seem pretty good at all. The article says AMD claimed they nearly sold out. So the number is something below 200k.

240k every two weeks during the quarter that includes the holiday shopping season, across the entire 7000-series as well as remaining 6000-series parts… which is a total of 9 main models that start from $150 (6500XT, 6600, 7600/XT, 7700XT, 7800XT, 7900 GRE/XT/XTX, plus I saw sporadic inventory of other 6000-series stragglers).

Given the lower-end parts appear to DRAMATICALLY outsell the outgoing $550+ models, doing 25% of Q3’s numbers on just the 9070 & XT seems to bode well for the 9060/XT.

 

[Heat_Fan89]

I missed out yesterday on Amazon when they made available in small quantities an overclocked 9070XT for $752. So a $150 +/- markup. I wasn't fast enough and didn't realize how to keep spamming the process to get one.

Well today I kept spamming the order process on Amazon when they made available an overclocked 5070 Ti for $899, a $150 markup. These cards are becoming more and more available, don't give up.

I'm also noticing reseller pricing is dropping on average. It appears people are showing restraint and not buying from them.

 

[spongiemaster]

240k every two weeks during the quarter that includes the holiday shopping season, across the entire 7000-series as well as remaining 6000-series parts… which is a total of 9 main models that start from $150 (6500XT, 6600, 7600/XT, 7700XT, 7800XT, 7900 GRE/XT/XTX, plus I saw sporadic inventory of other 6000-series stragglers).

Given the lower-end parts appear to DRAMATICALLY outsell the outgoing $550+ models, doing 25% of Q3’s numbers on just the 9070 & XT seems to bode well for the 9060/XT.

The story has been updated and AMD claims they never said anything about sales numbers and the original source has pulled the article.

 

[thisisaname]

Nvidia has sold us out to AI. They are just taking advantage of us now.

If AMD could they would be doing it too!

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

While news like this may give us hope for an affordable latest-gen GPU that’s readily available

Really? I've no hope of ever seeing an "affordable" latest gen GPU until the AI bubble bursts and plunges the world into the next Sub Prime or Dot Com bubble-esque recession (but far worse).

 

[alceryes]

And yet I can't find one in stock anywhere!

Online stores are dead to me for any kind of sought after hardware in limited quantity. Scalpers, bots, and unscrupulous e-retailers now rule that land. I can't blame AMD for this.

Although, it seems like AMD may have shorted retailers with rebates on AiB’s non-MSRP models. Check out the Hardware Unboxed video on this. It's very informative. If true, AMD needs to do right by them.

Luckily, I have a Micro Center near me. The 9070 XT was still available in the store, at MSRP, 3-4 hours after store opening.

 

[JamesJones44]

It is their job to sell out to the highest bidders... They have investors. Burning silicon that sell for $80 billion to make consumer silicon that would make them $12 billion would get them in hot water. I do not like not having access to cheap powerful graphics cards any more than anyone else likes it. But I am willing to face reality and understand why we are not getting what we want.

I don't think this is a component cost equation problem (some of course, but not the primary driver IMO). If it were the case even Intel GPUs would cost a lot more. To me it's simple supply and demand dynamics, customers are will to pay "ridiculous" prices to own a new GPU with a set of performance characteristics. If customers weren't willing to pay for it, price and/or quality would come down to match what consumers are willing to pay. For the last 4+ years, demand has been out stripping supply causing prices to increase. AMD/Nvidia (scalpers too) are simply charging what they think "the market will bear" and thus far they have been right.

 

[acadia11]

“To scalpers!” Fixed it for you …

 

[Mr Majestyk]

That number needs to be 2, 000,000 at least to meet initial demand. I have given up hope of getting a 9070XT at anywhere near MSRP for at least 6-9 months, But at least I don't have to worry about Leatherman's overpriced cards.

 

[Zerk2012]

I really feel sorry for anybody that needs a gaming GPU right now or in the foreseeable future.
Glad my 2080S still meets my demands!

I can see people going back to 1080p as needed because of the cost of cards.

 

[ingtar33]

Without any context, that number means nothing. Great reporting.

from what i understand (context missing) AMD did a double the "normal" sized run for the 9000 series, meaning they were expecting 2x the normal interest. the problem is this. AMD is 15% of the GPU market. double their normal interest isn't a huge amount of gpus. NVIDIA did 1/4 their normal run for a GPU release. just using this basic math, that means AMD could have done a x8 run and still not met market demand thanks to nvidia's terrible quantity

in short, AMD's lack of gpus is being caused by NVIDIA, in two ways. One because their 5000 series launch was terrible they caused a lot of extra unexpected interest in AMD, two, by undersupplying, which means the market, even agnostic to gpu desires is massively undersupplied.

It will probably take a while for AMD to meet market demand (if they can, they sign contracts with TSMC years in advance for supply and runs).

so there is your context. amd sold x2 their expected demand, and the market still has no gpus thanks in no small part to nvidia's mostly paper launch.