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Business Mayor
26-04-2025
- Business
- Business Mayor
GPU prices are out of control again
Every so often, Central Computers — one of the last remaining dedicated Silicon Valley computer stores — lets subscribers know it's managed to obtain a small shipment of AMD graphics cards. Today, it informed me that I could now purchase a $600 Radeon RX 9070 XT for $850 — a $250 markup. It's not alone. I just checked every major US retailer and street prices on eBay, and I regret to inform you: the great GPU shortage has returned. Many AMD cards are being marked up $100, $200, $250, even $280. The street price of an Nvidia RTX 5080 is now over $1,500, a full $500 higher than MSRP. And an RTX 5090, the most powerful consumer GPU? You can't even get the $2,000 card for $3,000 today. Here, I've built tables to show you: You shouldn't just blame tariffs for these price hikes. In early March, we found retailers were already scalping their supposedly entry-level MSRP models of the new AMD graphics cards. Nor is this likely to just be high demand, given how few cards are changing hands on eBay: only around 1,100 new Nvidia GPUs, and around 266 new AMD GPUs were listed there over the past 30 days. Here's a deeper dive on the 'MSRP' models of the AMD cards, which were all originally listed at $549 or $599: I've focused this table on Newegg and Micro Center since they carry more models than any other retailer, though I also spotted 'MSRP' 9070 XT cards at $800 and $850 at Amazon today, and an $830 card at Best Buy. Otherwise, these are the new sticker prices, not necessarily attainable prices, as most were out of stock. Read More Wordle today: Answer and hints for January 23 (#583) From December 2020 to July 2022, I periodically tracked the prices of game consoles and GPUs during the covid-19 pandemic, when they were incredibly expensive to obtain. At one point, some GPUs were worth triple their MSRP. I'd love to hear from Verge subscribers in particular: is this a valuable service we should continue in the tariff era? Or do you just want to know when it's safe to enter the water again? READ SOURCE
Yahoo
12-03-2025
- Yahoo
Undervolted RX 9070 XT beats RTX 5080 — RX 9070 and 9070 XT models with heavy coolers have massive OC headroom
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. AMD's newest RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 graphics cards are setting the gaming world on fire, or they would be if not for limited supply and MSRP markups. For the lucky few who managed to get their hands on the cards, the 9070 XT can seemingly edge past Nvidia's RTX 5080 in real-world performance, thanks only to undervolting the card. YouTube overclockers Der8auer and Alva Jonathan have shown off the most impressive boosts on the RX 9070 and 9070 XT this week. By only adjusting the power target and undervoltage curves of the GPUs in software, both YouTubers saw 10% boosts to FPS in Cyberpunk 2077 on both cards. Of note is that both of these boosts came without adjusting the GPU clock speed offset in software. The GPUs' clock speeds did increase thanks to the undervolt, but the offset remained unedited. Both YouTubers tested with testbenches different enough that we should add a disclaimer that the above table does not portray a fair comparison between the RX 9070 XT and 9070 (slightly different CPUs and RAM were used between both Der8auer and Jonathan's testing arrays), but the RTX 5080 and RX 9070 XT as tested by Der8auer were on equal testing ground. Der8auer tested with the PowerColor RX 9070 XT Red Devil, which sits near the pinnacle of RX 9070 XT factory-overclocked models. Interestingly, testing with increased clock speed offsets did not make any difference in his measured clock speeds or performance, likely because the card is already overclocked to its board limit from the factory. Overclocking the GPU's VRAM also resulted in higher clock speeds, but lower in-game performance; this is due to built-in error correction on the VRAM recalculating failed errors rather than displaying bad voxels. Der8auer found the best results through increasing the GPU's power target to 110%, and then applying a GPU voltage offset of -170mV, allowing the RX 9070 XT to hit 3.36 GHz and see a 10% boost in FPS over a similar XTX-brand RX 9070 XT. With AMD's Radeon software, undervolting a GPU does not simply lower the voltage it runs at. Instead, changing the voltage offset moves the voltage-frequency curve higher or lower, thus lowering the voltage required to hit higher frequencies. A fair comparison would be tuning a car's automatic transmission so a lower RPM is needed before automatically shifting to the next gear. Alva Jonathan's testing used the ASRock RX 9070 Steel Legend, another heavily factory-overclocked model. Like Der8auer, adjusting GPU clock offsets did not result in much change for Jonathan, who also employed a similar voltage and power draw adjustment to hit a matching 10% boost in FPS. He also employed similar means to undervolt and under-power the board to hit the lowest power draw possible, a solid method for preserving the lifetime of the GPU. Remember that both YouTubers tested with cards heavily overclocked from the factory, and (normally) selling for well above MSRP. The PowerColor Red Devil initially sold for $799 on Newegg, $200 above MSRP for the RX 9070 XT at launch. Likewise, the ASRock Steel Legend board was listed at $640, a cool $90 above MSRP for the RX 9070. With these markups comes better PCBs and much-improved cooling, which may be the silver bullet allowing for such aggressive undervolts to remain stable. Still, in the magical Christmas land where new GPUs sell for MSRP, the PowerColor Red Devil still sits $200 cheaper than the RTX 5080, and can now surpass it in Cyberpunk 2077 (and a few other benchmarks which can be seen in Der8auer's testing) after some creative overclocking and tweaking. While ray-tracing, path-tracing, and software support are all Nvidia's games to lose, AMD puts up stiff competition with this undervolting-capable card — and does it without needing to be bundled with a smoke alarm.
Yahoo
07-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
AMD did it! Now we need to keep the pressure up for price cuts
Well, look at that. AMD actually released a graphics cards that was competitive on price, performance, and features with Nvidia. And it managed to keep enough cards in stock for the launch that it wasn't immediately ruined by scalpers. Although that might seem like a low bar to reach, it's what passes for a success story for GPU launches in 2025, because Nvidia's has been one of the worst we've ever seen. As exciting as it is that there's a new graphics card that's actually kind of good and worth paying money for, though, it's not time for AMD (or fans) to rest on their laurels. There's more to push for: most notably that prices should come down further. The RX 9070 XT is an awesome graphics card — one of the best in a long time. It offers 5070 Ti/4080 performance for $600-ish, and its feature set is great, too. The RX 9070, though? It's a good card, with 5070-like performance, 16GB of VRAM, and similarly strong features. But its price is only $50 less than the base 9070 XT price. That's far, far too close. This is the same weird pricing choice AMD made with the RX 7900 XT last generation. With just $100 between it and the 7900 XTX, and a much greater gap in performance, the XT model made no sense. It was only later when AMD dropped the price that it became a particularly great value option. AMD should end up doing the same with the 9070 (non-XT), but we need to make sure it does. Margins and margins and they're typically not great with graphics cards, but come on AMD. Drop it down to sub $500 and really put the boot in to Nvidia's gouging. Nvidia needs to step up now. It might still be the king in performance and DLSS might still be a bit better than FSR4, but that's not the win it used to be. Especially when it just doesn't really have any graphics cards to sell at the moment. There are models, there are listings at retailers, but none of them are in stock and the second-hand market is a mess (and AMD might upend that soon, too). Nvidia will need to lower the prices of its 5070 and 5070 Ti if it wants to remain competitive with AMD, and get more of the cards in stock in much greater numbers. That will likely happen in the next few months, but the price cuts will only come if people put their money where there mouth is and buy AMD's new cards. Again, that'll likely happen as the reviews are strong and stock is there, but that momentum needs to be maintained. If Nvidia's cards come back close enough to MSRP, they're still too expensive: The 5070 Ti in particular. Hopefully Nvidia sees the writing on the wall after a few weeks of high 9070 XT sales and realises multiple frame generation alone isn't going to be enough to save the 50-series. We need to then continue that momentum forward into the rest of this generation and the next. Graphics card prices have grown dramatically in recent years, and though inflation and tariffs can be blamed for some of it, there's also Nvidia's sheer greed at play — and AMD has been just as guilty when it's had market dominance with CPUs. PC gaming is always going to be that bit more expensive than console gaming, but no one should be forced to spend $500+ on a graphics card to get something that can play the latest games at 4K resolution. That's more than the entire price of a full console, even before factoring in the added cost of a monitor and all the additional peripherals. Halo products like the RTX 5090 are always going to be ridiculous, and to some extent they should be. For those on mega bucks there isn't much of a difference between spending $1,500 and $2,000. But for everyone else, there needs to be better options for affordable, high-fidelity PC gaming. Intel is handling the super-entry level portion of the market, AMD's done the right thing with its 9070 XT, but I'd still like to see the 9070 sub-$500 before long, and the 9060 needs to be the darling $300 card we all know it wants to be. That might be wishful thinking, but once Nvidia's AI-hype-gravy-train starts to hit reality and that bubble pops, it might need to remember its roots and start selling gamers GPUs that are more than just marketing spin and a high price tags.
Yahoo
07-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
The Morning After: Buying a good graphics card is an expensive mess
It's been a weird time to dip into graphics cards, GPUs and… another synonym for the GeForces and Radeons of this world. AMD has tried for a while to undercut NVIDIA with slightly cheaper but less capable video cards — but this time, with the Radeon 9070 and 9070 XT, it might have got the recipe right, especially in 4K and ray tracing performance. Devindra Hardawar says the $599 Radeon 9070 XT, in particular, is a solid midrange GPU with excellent support for 1440p gaming and a bit of 4K. It has better ray tracing support than before, it's faster than the plain Radeon 9070 and it finally has AI upscaling built in too. Not to mention, NVIDIA's similarly priced GPUs landed around the same time. See for yourself — The Yodel is the go-to source for daily news, entertainment and feel-good stories. By signing up, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy. It's a good strategy — better than fighting with NVIDIA at the extreme high end of GPUs. It makes more sense for AMD to focus on cards people can actually buy — if you can. It's a good time to look closer at that too. 'Buy.' Hah! The gaming PC makers and people who need high-powered machines for their work know this already — it's a mess. Not only is it impossible to find NVIDIA's 50 series GPU in stock, but as Igor Bonifacic noted, nearly every single model is way above NVIDIA's suggested price. This isn't a pandemic thing anymore, this isn't a crypto thing anymore (although that's stoked demand, of course). It's like Taylor Swift tickets or a PS5 disc drive when the PS5 Pro broke cover — it's scalpers and opportunism from the middle-man companies that make the majority of GPUs out there. — Mat Smith AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT review NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 review The GPU market has broken foundations Get this delivered direct to your inbox. Subscribe right here! The biggest tech stories you missed Sorry We're Closed review Volkswagen previews its €20,000 EV for everyone MSI Claw 8 AI+ review: This cat got its bite back House Republicans subpoena Google over alleged censorship Technics AZ100 review: Supreme sound quality and a unique Bluetooth tool Is there a robot vacuum that won't destroy phone cables? How is US trade policy going to affect the price of my next phone? Do I need another phone? Ask Engadget returns, with an entirely new email address: askmat(AT) Ask me something! A sub-$500 smartphone that Engadget can endorse is a rare feat, but Nothing might have nailed it. Despite a premium Nothing Phone 3 not even existing, the company's see-thru phone series shoots straight for the cheap midrange. Many of the specs, like periscope zoom, a 120Hz 6.77-inch screen and a huge 5,000mah battery are typically in phones that are several hundred dollars more. It's all wrapped in a design full of character too. Check out my first impressions and expect a full review very soon. Continue reading. An upgraded laptop with a price drop? In this economy? The new MacBook Air, with an M4 chip, will retail at $999, down $100 from the previous starting price. There are still two size choices: 13-inch and 15-inch. RAM for the M2 and M3 laptops is 16GB by default, and the M4 model matches that standard. Apple is promising up to 18 hours of battery life, and the Airs will have support for Apple Intelligence. There's also a new look in the lineup, with a sky blue color adding a new option beside the usual shades of gray. Continue reading. Engadget has been testing action cameras for more than 16 years and with that experience, we can help you find the right model for your budget and needs. In the past, GoPro was the go-to choice for first-person action filming, whether it's surfing, rock climbing or offroading. But now, you have more choice, with models also available from DJI and Insta360. We break down all the different form factors — and our best choices. Continue reading.
Yahoo
07-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Engadget Podcast: The M4 MacBook Air and Mobile World Congress 2025
Apple finally dropped some long-awaited updates this week: An M4 MacBook Air (now starting at $999!), M3 iPad Air, as well as a refreshed Mac Studio with M3 Ultra and M4 Max chips. In this episode, Cherlynn, Devindra and Deputy Editor Nathan Ingraham chat about all of Apple's new hardware, as well as some interesting tidbits from Mobile World Congress 2025. Devindra also dives into his reviews of NVIDIA's RTX 5070 and AMD's Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT. It turns out AMD has finally delivered some killer GPUs to counter NVIDIA's dominance. Listen below or subscribe on your podcast app of choice. If you've got suggestions or topics you'd like covered on the show, be sure to email us or drop a note in the comments! And be sure to check out our other podcast, Engadget News! iTunes Spotify Pocket Casts Stitcher Google Podcasts MacBook Air refresh announced with an M4 chip and a slight price drop – 2:04 What's hot at Mobile World Congress 2025 – 23:10 Lenovo's Solar PC – 35:20 Xiaomi 15 Ultra (with a fancy Leica camera) – 37:53 New releases from Nothing – 39:16 Samsung releases a trio of A series devices – 40:35 NVIDIA vs. AMD part ∞: AMD's Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT edge out the GeForce RTX 5070 – 46:20 Pop culture picks – 54:11 Hosts: Devindra Hardawar and Cherlynn LowGuest: Nathan IngrahamProducer: Ben EllmanMusic: Dale North and Terrence O'Brien
