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Yahoo
19-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
AMD Calls Over 200,000 GPUs Shipped 'Unprecedented'
Everyone expected the AMD RX 9000 series to sell well, but no one predicted it would do this well. AMD has reportedly shipped over 200,000 of its new RX 9000 graphics cards to retailers over the past few weeks, and that volume has almost completely sold out already. This prompted AMD VP of product marketing, David McAfee, to say that such numbers were "unprecedented" for AMD, and that it had been a "pretty amazing couple of weeks." Since the launch of the RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT, the two cards have been almost completely sold out across most major retailers. That's led to some scalping and price rises, but they haven't ballooned quite like Nvidia's new RTX 50-series cards have. AMD has now hit over 45% market share in Japan, as per VideoCardz, and with the absence of Nvidia GPUs on sale, that trend is unlikely to reverse. A new report from Benchlife (via VideoCardz) claims that AMD shipped around 200,000 of the new graphics cards to retail partners and that the global supply has almost completely been sold. The remaining cards are unlikely to shift in such great numbers because prices have grown far beyond the suggested pricing. But AMD's Frank Azor said last week that new stock was coming. David McAffee agreed, stating in a recent chat with HotHardware, "Priority number one is restocking all of our partners, [which] means all the way from retailers and e-tailers back to our add-in board partners." He didn't make any proclamations of exactly when we can expect restocking to occur but suggested that it would start with the board partners and filter out with Q2 and beyond, as it fleshes out the rest of the RDNA4 range. When asked about the way pricing had evolved since the cards were launched, McAffee placed some of the blame on board partners, claiming that AMD didn't have full control over the production and retail arm of the graphics card business like it does with CPUs. "On the CPU business [...] we control that end to end. With the launch of RDNA 4, we sell an ASIC to our board partners who then have a range of designs that they want to enable," he said, highlighting how it's retailers who decide which models to stock and at what price. While that feels like a bit of a cop-out answer, it's worth praising that he noted the major effect AMD can have on the process is through supply. If supply goes up, prices can come down, and that's what AMD is working on in the near future. "The biggest thing that we can do, and the biggest thing that we are doing quite honestly is ramping supply of Navi 48 very very aggressively," he said.
Yahoo
12-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
AMD takes lead over Nvidia, but how long will it last?
While both AMD and Nvidia make some of the best graphics cards, pitting the two against each other usually reveals that Nvidia dominates the GPU market with an over 80% share. However, a new survey revealed that, at least in the recent weeks, many gamers preferred to go with AMD when buying a GPU. But how long will this surprising lead even last? This surprising reveal comes from a ComputerBase survey that was later shared by 3DCenter. According to the survey, a whopping 71% of ComputerBase readers bought an AMD RX 9000 series GPU as opposed to buying Nvidia's RTX 50-series. The rest of the participants opted to buy an older GPU instead, taking advantage of falling GPU prices. This is a dramatic flip on the usual state of things, but there are a few reasons why we're seeing AMD dominate the GPU market all of a sudden. First of all, the survey doesn't take into account the RTX 5070, which has recently launched and would likely tip the numbers more in Nvidia's favor (although I can't see it beating the RX 9070 XT in this particular survey). However, due to limited stock, the GPU may not have made as much of a splash as it would've otherwise. That brings me to my second (and main) point: AMD and its partners succeeded in delivering the RX 9070 XT and the RX 9070 to retailers in time for launch. Nvidia, unfortunately, did not. Availability, or lack thereof, likely affected the numbers in a major way here. There's no beating around the bush: Many people default to Nvidia regardless of the type of product that AMD puts out. However, when Nvidia's GPUs launch with nothing available to buy, gamers turn elsewhere, as can be seen in the ComputerBase survey. It's also worth noting that some enthusiast websites favor Team Red over Team Green, so take these results with a grain of salt. AMD also managed to surprise everyone in a good way by not pricing the GPUs too high, making them an affordable alternative to Nvidia equivalents. However, some cards still cost up to $250 more than the MSRP, and some retailers claim that the prices will rise. Meanwhile, Nvidia is slowly filling in the stock of its graphics cards. Many are still hard to come by, and even if they're in stock, they cost more than they should. But, as things begin to even out, we might see the scales once again tipping in Nvidia's direction — as they always do.
