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AMD Slashes Radeon RX 7900 XT Price In Wake Of GeForce RTX 4070 Super Launch

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Backside of PowerColor's Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 XT on a gray gradient background.
Radeon RX 7900 XT graphics card on a gray gradient background.
It would not matter in the event you’re a fan of NVIDIA’s graphics {hardware} or favor AMD’s Radeon product stack. What’s vital is that stiff competitors exists. That’s the one approach shoppers win, so to talk, and we’re seeing that play out in actual time with the discharge of NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4070 Super graphics card, and AMD’s obvious price-cutting response on its Radeon RX 7900 XT.
If you have not carried out so already, give our GeForce RTX 4070 Super overview a as soon as over, which is chock stuffed with benchmarks and evaluation. The in need of it’s, the primary RTX 40 Super GPU to land at retail places a damage on the Radeon RX 7800 XT in most video games and customarily hangs with the Radeon RX 7900 XT, particularly in the event you flip ray tracing on.

“At $599, the GeForce RTX 4070 Super is a really strong worth in its value section, and places vital stress on AMD. We suspect AMD and its companions should react one way or the other, particularly when it comes to Radeon RX 7900 XT pricing,” HotHardware Managing Editor Marco ‘Nostradamus’ Chiappetta famous in his overview for our web site.

It took all however a day for Marco’s crystal ball studying to play out in the actual world. Multiple websites are reporting a “particular promotional pricing program” by AMD for its Radeon RX 7900 XT, and whereas we won’t discover official phrase from Team Red, we did discover a number of playing cards priced approach beneath the unique MSRP. Here they’re, in ascending order beginning with the most affordable of the bunch…

Backside of PowerColor's Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 XT on a gray gradient background.

AMD’s companions have been promoting the Radeon RX 7900 XT for lower than the cardboard’s $899 launch MSRP for fairly some time, although not essentially for this low. Both the Sapphire and PowerColor fashions listed above, for instance, have been priced proper round $800 for many of December.

It shall be attention-grabbing to see if costs drop additional within the coming days and weeks. The GeForce RTX 4070 Super releases to retail as we speak beginning at $599.99, and early listings at Best Buy present that customized fashions from NVIDIA’s {hardware} companions are staying pretty near that quantity. There are a number of situations the place the the Radeon RX 7900 XT is both somewhat bit or greater than somewhat bit quicker than the RTX 4070 Super, however that is not all the time the case (actually not with ray tracing enabled).

Consumers will in the end resolve if the Radeon RX 7900 XT is a compelling choice with the present value cuts in play, or if it must drop beneath the $700 mark.

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