Demand has been 'very strong' and 'outpaced supply' for AMD's RX 9000-series cards according to CEO Dr. Lisa Su, as anyone who's tried to buy one can attest

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Its gaming earnings are way up, too, but it's console money doing the heavy lifting.

Asus Prime RX 9070 XT graphics card
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In its latest Q2 financial report, AMD had good news for investors and fans of Radeon graphics cards. Gaming revenue was up 73% compared to this time last year, and no small part of this has been down to the success of the RX 9000-series of graphics cards. So much so, that in an earnings call, AMD's CEO Dr Lisa Su confirmed that demand was "very strong" and "outpaced supply."

Of course, anyone who has tried to find a Radeon RX 9070 XT at MSRP will already know this, because they're all wildly over AMD's suggested price. It perhaps doesn't help that Team Red only has three RDNA 4-powered cards that gamers are interested in: the aforementioned 9070 XT, the slightly slower 9070, and the 16 GB 9060 XT.

The PS5's all-AMD chip, with a healthy dose of Sony engineering. (Image credit: Fritzchens Fritz)

Truth be told, though, no matter how many RX 9000 cards AMD has sold, the bulk of the gaming division's income will come from consoles. The PlayStation 5, PlayStation 5 Pro, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S all sport a custom AMD processor.

Sony and Microsoft are both retaining AMD's services for their next generation of consoles, so even though console unit sales are declining (as they're nearing the end of their lifecycles), money will still be coming in from R&D payments.

That's good news for the future of Radeon GPUs, as Sony and AMD worked together to develop FSR 4, the first version of AMD's upscaling and frame generation tech to directly use AI. As this relationship continues, the fruits of the collaboration will roll out to PCs, both for discrete graphics cards and for the APUs that power laptops and handheld gaming devices.

Now, if AMD can just sort out its supply chain and perhaps knock a little off the price tag while it's at it, perhaps more of us can enjoy a Radeon-powered gaming session or two. Because there are plenty of PC gamers who certainly want to, that's for sure.

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Nick Evanson
Nick Evanson
Hardware Writer

Nick, gaming, and computers all first met in the early 1980s. After leaving university, he became a physics and IT teacher and started writing about tech in the late 1990s. That resulted in him working with MadOnion to write the help files for 3DMark and PCMark. After a short stint working at Beyond3D.com, Nick joined Futuremark (MadOnion rebranded) full-time, as editor-in-chief for its PC gaming section, YouGamers. After the site shutdown, he became an engineering and computing lecturer for many years, but missed the writing bug. Cue four years at TechSpot.com covering everything and anything to do with tech and PCs. He freely admits to being far too obsessed with GPUs and open-world grindy RPGs, but who isn't these days?

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