XT Down To $399, Standard Down To $349

August 12, 2024

The new Radeon RX 5700 hasn’t even yet officially launched as we’re still awaiting Sunday the 7th of July, yet AMD in a rare event has now officially announced that is it adjusting the launch prices of the new Navi cards to lower price points.

Originally, the Radeon 5700 XT Anniversary edition, the XT, and the standard variant were priced at $499, $449, and $379. AMD has now lowered the price points to $449, $399 and $349.

AMD Radeon RX Series Specification Comparison
	AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT	AMD Radeon RX 5700	AMD Radeon RX 590	AMD Radeon RX 570
Stream Processors	2560 (40 CUs)	2304 (36 CUs)	2304 (36 CUs)	2048 (32 CUs)
Texture Units	160	144	144	128
ROPs	64	64	32	32
Base Clock	1605MHz	1465MHz	1469MHz	1168MHz
Game Clock	1755MHz	1625MHz	N/A	N/A
Boost Clock	1905MHz	1725MHz	1545MHz	1244MHz
Throughput (FP32)	9.75 TFLOPs	7.9 TFLOPs	7.1 TFLOPs	5.1 TFLOPs
Memory Clock	14 Gbps GDDR6	14 Gbps GDDR6	8 Gbps GDDR5	7 Gbps GDDR5
Memory Bus Width	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit
VRAM	8GB	8GB	8GB	4GB
Transistor Count	10.3B	10.3B	5.7B	5.7B
Typical Board Power	225W	180W	225W	150W
Manufacturing Process	TSMC 7nm	TSMC 7nm	GloFo/Samsung 12nm	GloFo 14nm
Architecture	RDNA (1)	RDNA (1)	GCN 4	GCN 4
GPU	Navi 10	Navi 10	Polaris 30	Polaris 10
Launch Date	07/07/2019	07/07/2019	11/15/2018	08/04/2016
Launch Price	$449 $399	$379 $349	$279	$179

The move isn’t unprecedented, but is something extremely rare. What is interesting is that AMD’s Scott Herkelman (CVP & GM AMD Radeon) yesterday posted an interesting but short tweet:

Jebaited

— Scott Herkelman (@sherkelman) July 4, 2019

Scott's snarky tweet is suggesting AMD had planned the move all along- playing a bait & switch in terms of the pricing of the RX 5700, most likely in preparation and in response to Nvidia’s newest Super card line-up.

We’re looking forward to covering the RX 5700 series cards when the time comes – hopefully soon!

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