AMD gatecrashes Nvidia's Super launch with a temporary $90 price drop and new MSRP for the Radeon RX 7900 XT

In the battle for sales of graphics cards, there are only three combatants: AMD, Intel, and Nvidia. Unfortunately, it takes years to develop a GPU so when one of them launches a new product, the opposition is rarely in the position to fight back with a similarly new chip. But what they can do is invoke a temporary price drop, to pull customers' gaze away, and that's precisely what AMD has done to its Radeon RX 7900 XT.

With a normal SEP/MSRP of $799, AMD's second most powerful graphics card, the Radeon RX 7900 XT, is typically up against Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4070 Ti, which is the same price. However, the recent launch of the $599 RTX 4070 Super, which performs pretty closely to the 4070 Ti, means neither card looks all that tempting.

So AMD teamed up with its main board partners and selected online retailers (as spotted at TweakTown), and sliced $90 off the tags for ASRock, Sapphire, PowerColour, and XFX Radeon RX 7900 XT cards. In some cases, you'll need to employ a promo code to get the full discount, but at $710, it's the lowest the 7900 XT has ever been.

Even once these deals are over, the base price will only go back up to $749. That's a full $150 lower than when it launched, although it has to be said that the original $899 price tag never made any sense.

And it's not just in the US, as Germany-based Hardwareluxx is reporting that some EU stores are also selling the 7900 XT at the reduced price. I've yet to see any UK retailers show any reductions but that doesn't necessarily mean this market or others won't see any kind of discount.

ASRock RX 7900 XT | 20GB GDDR6 | 5,376 shaders | 2,450MHz boost | $799.99 $709.99 at Newegg (save $90)
Originally priced far too close to the superior RX 7900 XTX, the 7900 XT is a lot more of tempting deal at this price. With a similar performance to the RTX 4070 Ti, it's a really solid GPU but lacks the AI and ray tracing punch of the Nvidia model.

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But is it going to be worth buying one when Nvidia has the RTX 4070