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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