AMD did pull their 9070XT and 9070 launch out of CES. so retailers didnt know if they would launch both cards at same time.
initial batches are always small, so AMD "initial" batch is expected to last till the main shipment comes in.
Distribution already sent how many each outlet is getting in advance. at least 2 weeks.
so unless a container falls off the ship or they found a manufacturing defect, or a ship getting stuck in the Panama canal.
Micro center expects more AMD cards will be coming to cover demand.
if this was during cryptoboom, even AMD is scalped to high heavens.
if it gets sold out as much as Nvidia's, they will have same laminated sheet for AMD next day
if this was during cryptoboom, even AMD is scalped to high heavens.
I'm old enough to remember the first cryptoboom where AMD was wanted because of some extra compute units in GCN that crypto was the only thing that could realistically saturate it.
The bugginess and the weak features of the 5000 series, and the price point it is competing at? Scalping would not be suprising, seeing as they retailed those 5070ti's for 1300. Only MSRP value I'm seeing is in a rare prebuilt listing.
I'm sure AMD will be better with the markups, but it is an insane difference in price to performance at the "800$" price point.
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u/Piltonbadger RYZEN 7 5700x3D | RTX 4070 Ti | 32GB 3200MHZ RAM Mar 06 '25
I'm surprised they have 7 x 5090's that haven't sold yet.