Iridium
Contributor
Nice. I hope the MSRP cards fall to 65k eventually as people were predicting. In the meantime, this is promising.
News AMD Radeon 9000 series officially announced to go on sale in March 2025
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el_diablo
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bssunilreddy
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gtx10606gig
Contributor
But when will it go below 68k then? May? Coz I need the 9070 non-XT to be close to 60k to make some sense for me.
Tracer_Bullet
Herald
May not ever happen, but AMD says they will have stock at MSRP.
86 ( USDINR is in 85s now) * 600 * 1.18 = 60888
And that's for xt. Maybe something is wrong with calculation, dunno.
Now if you think Nvidia will never get stocks, then this could be.
el_diablo
Explorer
I agree on this we may not get msrp cards for a year from now. I dont think they will ever go below 65k for lower tier cards too. The extra 5k is greedy retailer tax.
Kaching999
Herald
I think the multiple they are using for the conversion is about 92.5 like Nvidia. As the $550 5070 has a MSRP of 60k here and if we convert according to that the base pricing of the XT model here comes out to be about 65.5k.
bssunilreddy
Luminary
Kaching999
Herald
I don't this there are any other customs duties and charges for GPUs here other than the IGST of 18% and the shipping charges should be included in the MSRP itself like they are in the US, no GPUs are manufactured there they also import all of them.
Tracer_Bullet
Herald
USDINR is 85.x right now, maybe they need some margin on top.
But anyway issue is with supply esp from nvidia. TSMC or gddr7 might be bottleneck. If and when Nvidia starts supplying, then things could shift.
With mediocre gains and high prices, gamers should ideally reduce buying demand in response too.
So many games that will run fine if one already has a decent enough gpu and used gpus are pretty cheap.
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Tracer_Bullet
Herald
2000$ gpus, which itself is shit price in terms of perf/price vs 4090, being sold for 4k. Suddenly 2400$ is much lower and a value price.Gamers Are Refusing the Sky-High RTX 5090 GPU Prices, Leaving Shelves Full of $4,000 GPUs
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They are still selling from what i read, supply is very low i think. They wouldn't be raising prices otherwise.
I think they may be working better for AI workloads and are probably being bought for that for the most part.
Still crazy, that people buy this inspite of the risk of it burning up. People dont care it seems.
And Nvidia doesnt care for retail market now clearly. They stopped 40 series production without replacing it fully.
After crypto we got AI. At some point AI demand should reduce perhaps, they are investing a lot but are they gonna make good roi on that ?
At some point it would be nice for this tech hyper growth phase to face a bit of a reality check / bear market.
They are so volatile, even 50% down move in stocks like tesla isnt out of the ordinary.
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Based on commentary from reputed techtubers, the 9000 series 'MSRP' only seems possible through direct rebates provided by AMD, for limited quantities, to specific retailers, and that without the rebates, the cards would de facto cost another ~100 USD or more (the rebates are not being provided to the board partners apparently, who had purchased the chips from AMD at higher prices, so the products are fundamentally entering the distribution channels at higher prices).
So, while local retailers might be pricing the cards a little higher in this launch period than they otherwise would, my impression is that the prices aren't too far off from where they realistically can be, assuming that AMD has not brought their rebate program to India (big assumption, but it would explain a lot).
I'd expect organically lower prices eventually, as has been the case with the higher end 7000 series, but knowing whether it can be expected to happen sooner might require perspective from someone who has insight into the Indian distribution network.