Sunday, December 22nd 2024
AMD Radeon "RX 8800 XT" is Actually the RX 9070 XT?
It turns out that the Radeon RX 8800 XT, the top SKU in AMD's next generation gaming GPU series, is actually named the Radeon RX 9070 XT. European computer hardware retailer may have leaked the name, along with that of the Radeon RX 9070 (non-XT), ahead of its January 2025 reveal. The two cards appeared in the store's search filters, where it was screengrabbed by enthusiasts. The RX 9070 XT is what was supposed to be the RX 8800 XT; while the RX 9070 is the RX 8800. Extrapolating this, the series could include the RX 9060 series, the RX 9050 series, and the RX 9040 series, says All The Watts.
What prompted this change in nomenclature probably has to do with the company's decision to withdraw from the enthusiast segment of gaming GPUs. While the RX 9070 XT technically succeeds the RX 7800 XT, a performance-segment, 1440p-class SKU, the company wouldn't want its product stack to have a "void" left by the lack of an "RX 8900 series." The company also took the opportunity to skip the RX 8000 series altogether, which probably give it room to rebadge some SKUs from the RX 7000 series over to the RX 8000 series. The RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 are based on the "Navi 48" silicon, and implement the RDNA 4 graphics architecture.
Sources:
momomo_us (Twitter), All The Watts (Twitter)
What prompted this change in nomenclature probably has to do with the company's decision to withdraw from the enthusiast segment of gaming GPUs. While the RX 9070 XT technically succeeds the RX 7800 XT, a performance-segment, 1440p-class SKU, the company wouldn't want its product stack to have a "void" left by the lack of an "RX 8900 series." The company also took the opportunity to skip the RX 8000 series altogether, which probably give it room to rebadge some SKUs from the RX 7000 series over to the RX 8000 series. The RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 are based on the "Navi 48" silicon, and implement the RDNA 4 graphics architecture.
60 Comments on AMD Radeon "RX 8800 XT" is Actually the RX 9070 XT?
Shitty named yet great product's even better remake <3I remember the XFX GTX XXX cards, I need MOAR Xes, dammit!
All people will remember now is how they changed RDNA4 product names and then UDNA product names again. It gives the impression that they're flip-flopping and have no long term plan.There is no "Ryzen 6". Ryzen is product name. Zen is architecture name. Each architecture also has it's own internal codenames.AMD's iGPU's are faster than 970 these days...That's what i want too. Consistency. Im not saying Ryzen naming scheme has been consistent with skipping 4000 series (in retail, it was OEM only) or skipping 6000 series or again skipping 8000 series. Then the odd naming of 5900XT that was 16c/32t CPU instead of *900 having been always 12c/24t.Even if raster perf is same the power consumption will be lower and RT perf will be increased. Not to mention doing away with disadvantages of chiplet design on 7900 GRE and 7800 XT. It was never going to be a 2x perf upgrade. More of a refinement.I would not call AMD's cards expensive. Not when there's a green elephant in the room...Yes, yes it is monolithic this time.
Besides, if it starts with 9, it means the next gen will have to go through a complete name change again, which is really bad.
AMD's and Nvidia's naming is full of zeros and suffixes which nobody needs or wants because it doesn't make sense. What's RX, for example? And why is every Nvidia card called RTX? It only made sense in the Turing era when some cards had RT, some didn't. And what's with the zeros in 9070 or 5090? Why not call them the 97 and 59? In fact, why not just call this card the Radeon Navi 48 XT?
More importantly, GTX580, RX580 and A580/B580 do not compare to each other at all. That's pretty funny.