Asus promo offers UK customers cashback on Radeon 7000 GPUs

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In context: GPU manufacturers are always looking for new ways to increase sales and offload excess product. On Friday, Asus unveiled a new cashback rewards program offering UK customers up to £85 back on qualifying Radeon GPU purchases. While the prospect of free money is always a tempting proposition, the question remains: is the cashback promotion enough to draw potential GPU customers to Asus' Team Red product lines?

Posted on Friday, the Asus promotion page describes the new cashback incentive program and identifies eligible Radeon RX 7000 series GPUs from the TUF and Dual lineups. The list of eligible GPU models from each extends from the flagship TUF 7900 XTX 24GB down to the Asus Dual RX 7600 8GB.

According to the list of offers, the incentives range from over 8% of the purchase price of a TUF 7900XTX to as much as 12.5% cashback on the Dual 7600.

The total savings for each card, which in this case refers to the new GPU's purchase price minus the cashback promotion allowance, will vary based on vendor pricing, shipping, and availability.

Unfortunately limited to UK customers only, the terms and conditions for this promotion details the eligible shops and partners:

  • Scan.co.uk
  • Overclockers.co.uk
  • Amazon.co.uk
  • Ebuyer.com
  • Awd-it.co.uk
  • Argos.co.uk
  • Currys.co.uk
  • Novatech.co.uk
  • Very.co.uk
  • The ASUS UK Store

The terms and conditions state that the validation process to claim the Radeon cashback rewards can take up to 20 working days. If the submission passes all validation checks, the participant will receive his bonus within 90 working days.

In addition to the Radeon cashback promotion, eligible users can submit product reviews via Asus Rate My Gear promotions. Selected submissions will be eligible to receive an additional £25 in cashback rewards. In order to qualify for the additional rewards, submitted reviews must be considered Qualifying Reviews, meaning each submission must contain:

  • A minimum of three sentences and at least one video or photo;
  • Product-related and formulated in an understandable way; and
  • Each qualifying review will be rewarded, regardless of rating.

The AMD VGA Cashback promotion is scheduled to run from March 1 through March 31, 2024. During that time, any eligible Asus Radeon 7000-series cards purchased can be redeemed for the corresponding cashback amount.

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Are we looking at another excess inventory situation here was AMD tries to thin the stack before RDNA4's launch?

Guess there are worse ways to do it than "we'll just pay you to buy our stuff".
 
Are we looking at another excess inventory situation here was AMD tries to thin the stack before RDNA4's launch?

Guess there are worse ways to do it than "we'll just pay you to buy our stuff".

Yeah. And they do this because these cards are selling so well, of course. As all the AMD jehovahs around here will tell you.
 
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Yeah. And they do this because these cards are selling so well, of course. As all the AMD jehovahs around here will tell you.
It's true but isn't Asus pricing their 7900xtx higher than the 4080 super that is currently available at $999 according to Pcpartpicker website. Also there is a delta of $120 between the cheapest 7900xtx and the cheapest Asus 7900xtx ( MSI 7900xtx $909 Asus version $1029).
I guess it's better to make a promo campaign that they potentially use as a tax right off than reduce the prices like other vendors.
 
Sounds neat but there are some caveats - being that you have to use a card from ASUS, and by and large, the AMD-only card manufacturers (XFX, Sapphire, Powercolor and others) have been the best pick for cards, but also, the ASUS cards are more expensive, and for example, an ASUS 7900XTX is 985, and even with the discount, you can get something like an XFX Merc 310 Black Edition for cheaper still because of how the prices have moved for the AMD cards anyway, so I have no idea why they haven't just dropped the prices, as its not like their build quality or QA process are anything like leagues above the rest...............
 
Yeah. And they do this because these cards are selling so well, of course. As all the AMD jehovahs around here will tell you.

-I have no beef with either AMD or Nvidia, I am currently using a 6800xt in my main and my old 980ti in my steam box, I usually switch back and forth.

My post wasn't a dig on AMD or it's miserable market share, just that we might be entering the "clear stock for the next generation product" phase of the RDNA3 lifecycle.
 
-I have no beef with either AMD or Nvidia, I am currently using a 6800xt in my main and my old 980ti in my steam box, I usually switch back and forth.

My post wasn't a dig on AMD or it's miserable market share, just that we might be entering the "clear stock for the next generation product" phase of the RDNA3 lifecycle.
He's a hard-core nVidia guy. I stopped being brand loyal after nearly 20 years of being an nVidia guy when my 1070ti died. I do tend to shill AMD, but that is because I daily Linux and AMD is doing a lot to help Linux gaming and the open source community in general. So I currently have a 6700xt and will likely buy whatever their highest end RDNA 4 product is.

I am currently doing what I call a "steamdeck challenge" where I use a steamdeck as my desktop for 30 days. Aside from the obvious performance issues associated with an APU, I haven't had any problems with it.
 
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