On AMD’s Radeon website, the price of the RX 7900 XT – the slightly cheaper of the new 7000-series cards – is $900 with a temporary discount of $849 and a bundle with The Last of Us. But if you look around, many US retailers sell the card and its many manufacturer variants for $800 or less. That’s a pretty fast discount for a high-end card, but no doubt a welcome one for players whose options in this power range have become more limited and expensive.
At Newegg, the XFX Speedster and ASRock Phantom versions of the RX 7900 XT are currently $799.99 while Amazon has the PowerColor “Hellhound” variant for a hair under $804. Various news outlets have reported similar price drops to international sellers, although there are several versions of the card that sell for $900 or more. We reached out to AMD representatives for a comment to see if this is a permanent price drop or some sort of limited promotion and have yet to hear back.
Notably, this makes at least some versions of the RX 7900 XT the same price as Nvidia’s RTX 4070 Ti. The cheapest card in Nvidia’s 40-series lineup is already a poor value proposition compared to the RX 7900 XT given a “hobbled” memory bus and small RAM pool. While Nvidia remains a better call for gamers who value ray tracing and a versatile software stack, AMD now has an indisputable hardware advantage at the $800 price point, at least for now.
Whether the price is a permanent drop or not, expect different versions of the card to hit that price on a regular basis from now on.