It turns out AMD’s graphics cards aren’t immune to the price hikes caused by the combined disruption of memory supplies, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, and ongoing global trade fractures. As VideoCardz reports, Asus just raised the price of its RX 9070 XT graphics cards, in some cases by as much as 17.5%.
The past year has seen price hikes on all manner of PC components, from memory to storage to CPUs and graphics cards. AMD has seemingly been less affected by these price rises, but in recent months, costs have begun to creep up, too.
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The Asus Prime RX 9070 XT OC went from $800 to $940, a 17.5% rise overnight. It’s not the most expensive RX 9070 XT card, though. The Asus TUF RX 9070 XT OC was $850, but is now $990, while the RX 9070 XT White OC was just under $900, and is now $960.
These prices are pulled from the official Asus store, but PCPartPicker also picked up the change, suggesting this was a planned adjustment and one that will be reflected in Asus card prices elsewhere, too. However, those prices haven’t all been changed yet. If you were considering buying an RX 9070 XT—especially an Asus variant—now might be the time to do so.
You can grab an RX 9070 XT OC Edition on Amazon for $800 at the time of writing. There’s also a Prime Edition of the card on Newegg for $800, and Sapphire and AsRock both have RX 9070 XTs there for substantially lower prices—$770 and $710, respectively. Gigabyte also has its own Gaming OC RX 9070 XT on Amazon for $740.
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These price changes also raise the value proposition of other cards. The RX 9070 (non-XT) is available at several retailers for around $630, and if you want more VRAM and don’t mind sacrificing FSR 4 support, the last-generation RX 7900 XT offers similar performance for $700.
The best Nvidia RTX 50-series graphics card under $1,000 now is the RTX 5070, but for around $650, you’re only getting 12GB of VRAM, and its performance falls around 10% behind that of the RX 9070 (non-XT), so it’s harder to recommend, even with DLSS and multi-frame generation support.
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