During the official presentation event, AMD itself confirmed the price of the Radeon RX 7900 XT and 7900 XTX, 899 and 999 dollars, respectively This was good news because it was assumed that the giant from Sunnyvale I wanted to stay in the same price range that we saw with the Radeon RX 6900 XT, and because it bucks the trend we’ve seen in the graphics sector where the selling price rises with each new generation.

Unfortunately, information is starting to emerge indicating that the price of the Radeon RX 7900 XT and Radeon RX 7900 XTX may be larger than expectedand that it would be for an important reason lack of components which would remain at least two to three weeks after the release of both graphics cards.

The information makes sense, especially since this new generation of graphics cards requires a total of seven chips to make its GPU, six to store the infinite cache and one for the graphics core itself. It is commented that the price increase can be between 20% and 30%, although some retailers have already opened pre-sales at inflated prices that far exceed these values.

The situation should improve in January 2023, although eventually everything It will also depend on the demand and market reality.. It is very easy to understand that if the demand is high, the price of Radeon RX 7900 XT and 7900 XTX will continue to be high even if the inventory improves, and if the demand is low, the opposite can happen, ie. the price should drop even if the inventory is not good.

We also have to consider that although we got rid of the cryptocurrency mining problem thanks to Ethereum’s jump to a non-mining model, the truth is that we still suffer the consequences speculation and resale, and that it could also affect the price of the Radeon RX 7900 XT and 7900 XTX, especially if availability is low and interest is high.

Still, the prices you’re seeing at some of the retailers that already offer pre-orders are somewhere between $1,500 and $1,700 and don’t make any sense, especially when they get to the level where they almost stepped on the GeForce RTX 4090, and the Radeon RX 7900 XTX is much slower in ray tracing. I remind you that the launch of a new generation of AMD graphics will take place at the end of the same month of December.