Thursday, December 26th 2024
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Boosts up to 3.10 GHz, Board Power Can Reach up to 330W
AMD's upcoming Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card can boost its engine clock up to 3.10 GHz, a new leak that surfaced on ChipHell says. Depending on the board design, its total board power can reach up to 330 W, the leak adds. The GPU should come with a very high base frequency for the engine clock, with the leaker claiming a 2.80 GHz base frequency (can be interpreted as Game clocks), with the GPU boosting itself up to 3.10 GHz when the power and thermals permit. The RX 9070 XT will be the fastest graphics card from AMD to be based on its next-generation RDNA 4 graphics architecture. The company isn't targeting the enthusiast segment with this card, but rather the performance segment, where it is expected to go up against NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5070 series.
RDNA 4 is expected to introduce massive generational gains in ray tracing performance, as AMD is rumored to have significantly developed its ray tracing hardware, to reduce the performance cost of ray tracing. However, as it stands, the "Navi 48" silicon that the RX 9070 XT is based on, is still a performance-segment chip, which succeeds the "Navi 32" and "Navi 22," with a rumored compute unit count of 64, or 4,096 stream processors. Performance-related rumors swing wildly. One set of rumors say that the card's raster graphics performance is in league of the RX 7900 GRE but with ray tracing performance exceeding that of the RX 7900 XTX; while another set of rumors say it beats the RX 7900 XT in raster performance, and sneaks up on the RTX 4080. We'll know for sure in about a month's time.
Sources:
ChipHell Forums, HXL (Twitter), VideoCardz
RDNA 4 is expected to introduce massive generational gains in ray tracing performance, as AMD is rumored to have significantly developed its ray tracing hardware, to reduce the performance cost of ray tracing. However, as it stands, the "Navi 48" silicon that the RX 9070 XT is based on, is still a performance-segment chip, which succeeds the "Navi 32" and "Navi 22," with a rumored compute unit count of 64, or 4,096 stream processors. Performance-related rumors swing wildly. One set of rumors say that the card's raster graphics performance is in league of the RX 7900 GRE but with ray tracing performance exceeding that of the RX 7900 XTX; while another set of rumors say it beats the RX 7900 XT in raster performance, and sneaks up on the RTX 4080. We'll know for sure in about a month's time.
81 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Boosts up to 3.10 GHz, Board Power Can Reach up to 330W
Anyhoo, 3Ghz Clocks are awesome, hope we see those on the new nGreedia GPUs too. :)
The price is going to matter, the slim price margins mattering WAY more than usual if this is what I think is about to happen.
Nothing short of a surgical grade spanner in the works for performance focused users? I'm more interested in the tools and improvements for creators.It will have to be far more serious than that. Maybe -150/200 to really stir the fear. The alleged purpose is to regain market share. That will certainly do it.
Just wait.That's just an excuse for not making enthusiast cards. Enthusiast cards sell also midrange and low end cards. People see the review of the 4090, their jaw drops, their wallet says "Sorry boss, not enough money" and then they go out and buy a cheaper Nvidia card hoping that even that cheaper model will have some of that magic integrated in the 4090.
AMD recently said that they can't even produce enough Instinct cards, that's why their share dropped from over $160 down to even under $120. They don't have resources to spare for the gaming market, a market that is hostile to them. So they limit their exposure to that market by making cards that will have a sustainable value in the market and they will be able to keep selling those for years without having to do serious price adjustments. RDNA 4 is probably a fixed RDNA 3 plus the RT improvements SONY demanded from them to remain a customer. AMD's only new problem is Intel, but I think they will try to ignore Intel for now. They will take the risk to let Intel enjoy some market share success. Lowering prices and making RX 9000 series very attractive to consumers wouldn't help them if they don't have the resources to cover the demand. And I think they don't have those resources. An RX 9070 at $400 would end up out of stock pretty fast and with inflated pricing like the 9800X3D.
In the meantime AMD will make it even more hostile i bet, and keep complaining about how hostile it is. Sometimes you make your own fate.
Regarding price tag - its very AMD to finetune the MSRP at the very last minute for their products.
The hostility comes from Nvidia buyers wanting AMD to give away cards, but those people still buy Nvidia cards because of the brand image. However regarding price I'd like to see the 9070xt at $450-500, if it performs like a 7900xt with improved RT.Not really, the rumors so far have been the 9070 isn't going to outperform the 7900XTX, xtx owners don't need to upgrade.