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AMD Allegedly Has 200,000 Radeon RX 7900 Series GPUs for Launch Day

winjer

Gold Member

AMD Allegedly Has 200,000 Radeon RX 7900 Series GPUs for Launch Day


AMD is preparing the launch of the Radeon RX 7900 series of graphics cards for December 13th. And, of course, with recent launches being coated in uncertainty regarding availability, we are getting more rumors about what the availability could look like. According to Kyle Bennett, founder of HardOCP, we have information that AMD is allegedly preparing 200,000 Radeon RX 7900 SKUs for launch day. If the information is truthful, among the 200,000 launch-day SKUs, there should be 30,000 Made-by-AMD (MBA) cards, while the rest are AIB partner cards. This number indicates that AMD's market research has shown that there will be a great demand for these new GPUs and that the scarcity problem should be long gone.

A few days ago, we reported that the availability of the new AMD Radeon generation is reportedly scarce, with Germany receiving only 3,000 MBA designs and the rest of the EMEA region getting only 7,000 MBA SKUs as well. With today's rumor going around, we would like to know if this is correct and if more SKUs will circulate. America's region could receive most of the MBA designs, and AIB partners will take care of other regions. Of course, we must wait for tomorrow's launch and see how AMD plans to execute its strategy.

This is just a rumor, but if true, it means AMD is very certain on the performance of these new GPUs. And plans to sell a lot of them.
For comparison, NVidia sold 125,000 4090s in the first month. And only shipped 30,000 4080s worldwide, and still these are still on the shelves of many shops.

Whether this confidence is warranted or not is to be seen. But we only have to wait another day, as these cards release on the 13th.
 

Gaiff

Gold Member
2 days ago: AMD reportedly only has 14 7900 XTX ready for launch.

Lol, we're a day away from launch. They should stop with those stupid rumors.
 

supernova8

Banned
I expect the launch volume to get scalped either way. Better question is what supply looks like in a month or so (ie whether scalpers are able to sell them at a good profit and therefore whether they continue to scalp or move onto something else).
 

winjer

Gold Member
I expect the launch volume to get scalped either way. Better question is what supply looks like in a month or so (ie whether scalpers are able to sell them at a good profit and therefore whether they continue to scalp or move onto something else).

I doubt that.
Remember that scalpers tried to do that with the 4080, and many got stuck with those cards, not managing to sell them, even at MSRP.
 

baphomet

Member
I mean the leaked benchmarks are out there.

They're not great.

But either way the performance embargo ends today I believe, so we'll know for certain shortly.
 

Amiga

Member
Waiting for a full AMD Advantage desktop. Could be the 1st PC rig I buy in a decade if the price is right.
 
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