AMD says it's sold over 200,000 Radeon RX 9000 series graphics cards since launch

[DragonSlayer101]

The big picture: At the AI PC summit in Beijing, AMD claimed that its board partners have shipped more than 200,000 of its Radeon RX 9070 and Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics cards since their launch earlier this month. The company added that it has almost exhausted its entire global supply and sold out its inventory.

At the AI PC summit in Beijing, AMD claimed that its board partners have shipped more than 200,000 of its Radeon RX 9070 and Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics cards since their launch earlier this month. The company added that it has almost exhausted its entire global supply and sold out its inventory.

Demand for AMD's latest GPUs has outpaced supply thanks to strong reviews, leaving major retailers struggling to keep stock. Most units have already sold out, and the few remaining are priced well above MSRP. The inflated prices have led to rampant scalping and accusations of price-gouging.

AMD's Frank Azor assured consumers that both GPUs would be available at MSRP, but that has yet to materialize. However, supply could improve soon. AMD board partner Yeston, whose cards are currently exclusive to China, claims availability will stabilize after April. The company expects AMD to ramp up supply by May, offering relief for gamers struggling to find the cards at reasonable prices.

AMD Vice President of Product Marketing David McAfee described demand for the new GPUs as "unprecedented" and said the company has had a "pretty amazing couple of weeks." While he acknowledged that most models are sold out at major retailers, he emphasized that restocking remains AMD's "priority number one."

At launch, AMD had promised "wide availability" for its latest cards at MSRP, but a quick search at leading retailers like Newegg, Amazon, and Best Buy tells a different story. When we checked, only one RX 9070 XT was available on Newegg at the $599 MSRP, while the rest were priced way higher, going up to $859 for an overclocked model. Amazon's and Best Buy's prices and availability weren't any better.

In related news, AMD claims that as many as 500 million devices worldwide use Radeon graphics cards. This figure includes laptops, handhelds like the Asus ROG Ally and Lenovo Legion Go, gaming consoles like the Xbox X|S and PS5, and even Tesla cars like the Model S and Model X, which use embedded RDNA 2 GPUs to power their infotainment systems.

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AMD says it's sold over 200,000 Radeon RX 9000 series graphics cards since launch

 

[GodisanAtheist]

The article needs a bit more context. Is 200k cards shipped (and likely sold) good? How did other gens fare at the two week post launch mark?

I know everyone has seen those JPR slides showing AMD and Nvidia shipping millions of cards per quarter in the past, so 200k in two weeks seems... Ok... If it means in one quarter we'll have 1.2 Million N48 cards out there.

Doesn't seem like nearly enough to feed the beast, but it's something I guess.

 

[Porkous]

Sony PS5 sold 75 million units world wide. 1.4 million per month approximately.

So definitely AMD does not profit so much right now... Otherwise they would churn out PS style amount of GPU's.

They should get more involved in handhelds.
If someone can create a system compelling enough... It will sell millions.

 

[Dreadcthulhu]

It would be interesting to see how that stacks up against prior card releases in that price and/or market segment bracket. As others mentioned, Nvidia & AMD are usually shipping millions of cards per quarter, but I bet a large hunk of those are the lower end ones, in the x060/x600 market segment.

 

[Dreadcthulhu]

Sony PS5 sold 75 million units world wide. 1.4 million per month approximately.

So definitely AMD does not profit so much right now... Otherwise they would churn out PS style amount of GPU's.

They should get more involved in handhelds.
If someone can create a system compelling enough... It will sell millions.

AMD is likely making far more from each one of these video cards than they do from each PS5 sales; their console margins are quite slim. And of course the decision on exactly how many GPUs to make had to be made months ago; barring better industrial espionage AMD had no way of knowing that Nvidia would not be supplying their usual amount for a new video card launch. It would have been risky for AMD to order too many wafers, as those wafers are also needed for more profitable Ryzen, Epyc, and Instinct stuff.

And AMD is heavily involved in handhelds; the most popular, the Steamdeck, uses an AMD chip, and pretty much every other PC handheld I have seen aside from the MSI Claw also uses AMD. AMD even has their whole Z series of chips intended for handheld use (granted those are all binned laptop chips; custom chips just for handhelds would probably be a bit too risky at this point for AMD unless someone else was paying for the design).

 

[n3o127]

AMD is I'm sure selling any and every card they can get to retail (or disty) -- With nVidia product line so hard to get opens the door for AMD to fill that order. Question I have would be nVidia sales, are they filling enough of their own demand to keep the 85% or so market share they have? If they don't fill the pipe to those levels and AMD fills even some of that, AMD will gain market share not so much from being the better product, but as much due to nVidia unable to fill their demand.

 

[toooooot]

9070 5070 5070ti and 5080 are coming back to stock.
I monitored them for the last few weeks with Distill.
All pathetically overpriced though.
I saw for a second 9070xt appearing at almost MSR on bestbuy and it was gone almost immediately.
What is worse, people are buying rtx 5080 priced at $1500!
These prices are gonna stay if people keep buying them.

If you are looking for a card to buy and it is one of these models, you can.
It is just very hard to catch one priced close to msrp.

 

[alexnode]

I wish AMD creates a bit of competition. But I think they should aim all the way up... to 5090.

 

[YSignal]

Looks like the 200k number was just an asspull.
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-com...tedly-sold-nearly-200k-rx-9070-gpus-worldwide

 

[Raysterize]

I think they could have sold 400,000 if there was stock... I'm going to get the 9070 when it's available at MRSP.