Before continuing with today’s information, it is necessary to resituate the chronological order of events. AMD and the brands have already sent Radeon RX 9070 XT cards to resellers ahead of CES. This allowed us to have some images and get an idea of the cards, such as the discovery of 2 to 3 8-pin PCIe power sockets for a mid-range card, see the nomenclature in 70. Just before CES, AMD sent the documents to the press, in order to present the cards, but in a turnaround, AMD said almost nothing about them. And right after CES, there were performance leaks here and there, while the drivers aren’t supposed to be released to the press yet. To explain the reasons for this choice, Frank Azor, who had had time in the meantime to launch his dig at the competitor’s horrible CPUs, explained that this postponement was due to lack of time. According to him, it would have taken more time to present the card, and that is why it was decided not to show anything. This theory took a hit, because on the one hand Azor had known for a long time that he would only have 45 minutes for AMD to present everything, and that if that were the case, the press would not have did not have the documents ahead of the conference. The other truth is that attention was more focused on the RTX 50, which would have largely attenuated the hype on the RX 9070 XT, which nevertheless does not lack novelty. And AMD finally decided to see how NVIDIA placed its RTX 5070 to position itself accordingly. What if one of the reasons was completely different? According to PCGH, this postponement would also be due to a conflict between AMD and resellers.
Indeed, when AMD sent the cards to resellers before CES, it would have charged them a certain price X, which would have been higher than the MSRP. With the arrival of the RTX 50, AMD would have decided to lower the price of the RX 9070 XT, which did not please resellers. They would therefore have found themselves with Radeon stocks, paid at a high price and unsaleable at this price due to the reduction that AMD would have made following the announcement of the RTX 5070. And the red giant would not intend to do anything to adjust the balance, no cashback or reimbursement voucher, resellers would ignore the card and might not sell it. This situation would therefore be one of the reasons for the postponement, and one of the reasons for the absence of an official date, as long as the conflict is not resolved. This is obviously unofficial, but the Pokerclock person who gave this info got this from their sources, PCGH being one of the biggest German sites. In any case, whether all this is true or false, it does not change the incomprehensible situation behind the launch of the RX 9070 XT: resellers have had the cards for a long time, and AMD is not selling or announcing them yet. There is something, but what?
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