AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Pricing Leak: More Affordable Than RTX 5070?

Also sourced from Chiphell, the Radeon RX 9070 XT is expected to command a price tag between $479 for AMD's reference card and roughly $549 for an AIB unit, varying based on which exact product one opts for.

This sounds reasonable IMO. After all, there is still room for a cheaper 9060 / 9050 series.

Anything is more affordable than nvidia's jacked up prices. The key will be whether it provides enough performance for the difference in price to be worth it. I'm not interested in paying about half a thousand dollars for a single part either way.

I don't even know if "good deal" makes sense in abstract anymore.

At this point I'd look at it the other way. If you want a PC you want to decide on a budget first, then see what mix of parts gets you the features you want. A good deal for a 1K build may not look anywhere near the same as one for a 2K machine. Or a good deal for someone into competitive FPS at 1080p on a 1K build may not look the same than a single player person looking to put games on a 4K TV.

Display tech and even software design is so wildly different now it's all a bunch of interlocked decisions. Building PCs in the 90s and 00s was easy: games did one thing, which was put some frames on a CRT monitor. You bought the best thing you could afford to do the thing on the thing. These days it's more flexible, but also more complicated, unless you're going for top of the line, money-is-no-object stuff.