Lisa Su Says Radeon RX 9000 Series Is AMD's Most Successful GPU Launch Ever (techspot.com)
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- News link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/03/25/2037251/lisa-su-says-radeon-rx-9000-series-is-amds-most-successful-gpu-launch-ever
- Source link: https://www.techspot.com/news/107280-lisa-su-calls-radeon-rx-9000-amd-most.html
> AMD CEO Lisa Su has confirmed that the company's new Radeon RX 9000 graphics cards have been a massive success, selling 10 times more units than their predecessors in just one week on the market. Su also stated that more RDNA 4 cards are on the way, but did not confirm whether the lineup will include the rumored Radeon RX 9060. When asked about the limited availability of the new cards, Su said that AMD is ramping up production to ensure greater supply at retailers worldwide. She also expressed hope that increased availability would help stabilize pricing by discouraging scalping and price gouging.
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Used (Score:2)
Until the prices of video cards become sane again (at or below MSRP) I'll be happy with purchasing used cards a few generations old. I'm just now contemplating my first used RTX purchase. It's easy to tear used cards down, clean them up, and add new thermal pads and heat sink compound.
I forget which one (Score:2)
But one of the smaller system builders posted a picture to show the difference between their allotment of AMD cards and they're allotment of Nvidia cards. They had 30 or 40 of the AMD cards ready to go and two of the Nvidia cards.
Never mind that The Nvidia cards are pretty tepid as far as upgrades go and never mind that AMD seems to have fixed their ray tracing performance and their image scaling performance.
With a little bit of effort you can actually get an AMD card where as for Nvidia unless you
Not surprising (Score:2)
NVidia is barely shipping cards it seems and the stock of previous generation cards has been chewed through already. I think there's so much demand right now that AMD could have doubled their initial shipments and they still would have sold every single one and people would still be able to scalp cards on eBay. RDNA 4 is certainly a great architecture based on the reviews I've looked at, but anyone with cards could sell them in this market, even at the increased prices that are being asked.
Re: Not surprising (Score:2)
NVidia is also falling on their ass with every kind of problem imaginable. Bad drivers, bad firmware, bad connector design (the connector is not as bad as the way the cards draw almost all power over only two wires, as shown by multiple thermal camera videos) and even bad silicon with defective functional units. Add to that the exorbitant pricing and you have a recipe for failure before you even get to their pathetic volume.