AMD’s RDNA three graphics playing cards are about to hit the cabinets, and we’ve caught the value of a few XFX third-party fashions by way of Amazon listings which have now been yanked down – not earlier than they had been highlighted on Twitter, although.

Common {hardware} leaker @momomo_us shared the product listings for XFX Speedster Merc 310 variations of the RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT by way of a tweet (flagged up by VideoCardz (opens in new tab)).

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The 7900 XTX is AMD’s flagship for the next-gen, and going by the value tag on Amazon, XFX’s Speedster Merc model will retail at $1,100 within the US, which is 100 bucks greater than the reference board. The 7900 XT card is pitched at $979, which is $80 greater than the reference mannequin’s MSRP within the US.

As talked about, these costs not seem on the respective product pages on Amazon, so somebody has noticed the leaked information and stripped it out.

For the uninitiated, the reference model of a graphics card – which is probably the most primary incarnation of the board, constructed to AMD’s default spec – is at all times cheaper than customized variants, which have beefier clocks, and higher elements (plus simpler cooling), thus they’re clearly going to be pricier.

After all they run a bit quicker for the additional outlay as you’d anticipate, though the distinction usually isn’t all that a lot (they can be pushed a lot additional with overclocking than vanilla boards, thoughts you, for these lovers who have interaction in that pursuit).

Evaluation: A touch that the value would possibly simply be proper (or not less than not unsuitable)

The important thing level to deal with right here is that the XFX Speedster Merc 310 isn’t a lot pricier than the reference mannequin at 10% extra (really 9% within the case of the 7900 XT).

This very a lot goes towards the worrying rumor which was lately aired that AMD’s customized third-party choices of RDNA three playing cards could be rather more costly than the reference incarnations (and that they could make up the vast majority of inventory within the early days, too).

A 10% markup appears cheap for this XFX mannequin, significantly contemplating that the Speedster Merc is a higher-end variant from this graphics card maker, one of many form of fashions that the rumor-mongers feared could be exorbitantly costly (RTX 4080 model, in different phrases).

Naturally, we don’t know if these costs will show appropriate, so we should always strategy this spillage with a great deal of trepidation, as pre-release costs could be placeholders. Though Amazon is a extra reliable supply of such leakage than among the minor European retailers that usually pop up with early pricing, particularly provided that we’re simply a few days away from the launch of RDNA three graphics playing cards.

If this does pan out to be true, then it’ll give Nvidia much more motive to chop RTX 4080 pricing, one thing that’s additionally been rumored to be within the playing cards lately. Group Inexperienced may have to remain extra aggressive with its rival and stoke flagging RTX 4080 gross sales, and we’ve additionally touched on the chance that dropping the asking value on the 4080 could possibly be crucial to present room to competitively value the inbound rumored RTX 4070 Ti at its appropriate stage (a somewhat difficult pricing puzzle that we talk about at size right here).

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