Friday, January 3rd 2025
PowerColor Teases Radeon RX 9070 XT "Red Devil" GPU
PowerColor has prepared its highest-end Radeon RX 9070 XT GPU in the "Red Devil" family. In a post on the social media platform X, PowerColor shared the below picture with the following words: "Every edge shines like a gem. Every second burns like fire. If power was in your hands, how would you use it?" The picture shows an interesting design with a black shroud holding a red acrylic core, which follows the design philosophy of Red Devil cards. On the backplate, PowerColor has embedded a Red Devil sign with a meshed plate on top of it to show the card branding. Suppose the previous generations of Red Devil cards are for reference. In that case, we assume that the Radeon RX 9070 XT Red Devil will deliver top-tier specifications and component selection for overclocking, meaning that this card will be one of the highest-end RDNA 4 designs that we will see. Of course, surprises are welcome, and we must wait for the CES launch to see more.
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121 Comments on PowerColor Teases Radeon RX 9070 XT "Red Devil" GPU
Also, if we're being THAT arsing about stuff I'd wager it's not irritating, nor is it childish at all. This is just one of the themes popular amongst the target audience, id est gamers. Doncha remember xXx_DemonLord_xXx that beat you 5 to 1 in that game?
'least it's implemented soundly enough for that to be actual designs and not optical migraines. My eyes don't hurt staring at those.
Minimalist design is what XFX are doing. PowerColor won't go bankrupt if one Chrispy buys'imself a GPU from XFX.
Got the dual core card? You scored twins, man! :eek::laugh:
But alas we can no longer have nice things
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Only way the 9070 can make sense is if it's priced between £500-550 max.
Be interesting to see what SI's offer 9070XT/9800X3D setups and who does the biggest mark up.
For example, I find this a lot more visually exciting:
Than this:
Edit: That ASUS box is just sensory overload for me (I know because I had one).
Nvidia too..
Anyways when a card has good cooling, that's what matters.
Remember people both nvidia and amd used blowers and everyone complained about those, maybe they both should go back to using them?
However that's still a bit slower than 20Gbps used on XTX.
Obviously G6 cant match G6X speeds despite lofty promises by Samsung about 24Gbps G6W that never materialized.15% is an average generational uplift these days. Not the "same performance ballpark" like you claim.
I already proved either in this thread or some other thread here that getting even 40% today is very rare.
<10% Bad.
10-20% Average.
20%> Good.
That's the reality we live in.
At the same die size, roughly the same launch price and at almost the same wattage, 7800 XT outclasses 6700 XT by about 50 percent. The same can be said about 6900 XT VS 7900 XTX.
Ada provides up to double the performance per watt compared to Ampere. Sure, prices are horrible but that's because competition doesn't exist.
And given AMD GPUs are about 30% too weak to REALLY impact the market I'm fairly certain we need at least another +50% for RDNA4 to make a difference considering RTX 5000 series are to be about 10% better than Ada at the very least. Meaningless generation otherwise. Just a filler episode.
7900XTX also increased in effective die size and TDP compared to 6900XT while maintaining the same price.
Both of these also moved from 7nm to 5nm/6nm that helped.
But these examples do not disprove my assertion that 40% or greater is rare and 15% is more like average.
Especially as we're unlikely to see such big node jumps in the future.
Cards releasing this year move from 5nm (or 6nm) to 4nm and in the future there is 3nm and 2nm but performance advantage from switching nodes is getting smaller and smaller.That is the effect of moving from what was essentially a 10nm class Samsung node to a much better 5nm TSMC node. It's also the reason why 4090 was 41% faster than 3090Ti despite using a slightly smaller die at the same TDP.
The king ATI Radeon 9700 Pro followed by the last push of old ATI dev team inside AMD now Radeon HD 5870 & Radeon HD 7970, then the team dissolved inside AMD and It's been a shitshow since then:banghead: