Monday, January 6th 2025
AMD Debuts Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 Powered by RDNA 4, and FSR 4
AMD at the 2025 International CES announced the Radeon RX 9070 XT and Radeon RX 9070 desktop performance-segment graphics cards. These will be the face of AMD's next generation of gaming graphics products, and will be powered by the new RDNA 4 graphics architecture. AMD hopes to launch both cards within Q1 2025. AMD changed the nomenclature of its gaming GPUs mainly because it has made a tactical retreat from the enthusiast graphics segment, its fastest products will compete in the performance segment. From the way AMD arranged the Radeon RX 9070 series and 9060 series product stack against the backdrop of the Radeon RX 7000 series, the GeForce RTX 4000 series, and the anticipated GeForce RTX 5000 series, the RX 9070 XT will offer performance roughly similar to the Radeon RX 7900 XT in raster, with the RX 9070 being slightly faster than the RX 7800 XT. The RX 9060 XT will beat the RX 7700 XT, while the RX 9060 beats the RX 7600 XT.
With RDNA 4, AMD claims generational SIMD performance increase on the RDNA 4 compute units. The 2nd Gen AI accelerators will boast of generational performance increase, and AMD will debut a locally-accelerated generative AI application down the line, called the AMD Adrenalin AI, which can generate images, summarize documents, and perform some linguistic/grammar tasks (rewriting), and serve as a chatbot for answering AMD-related queries. This is basically AMD's answer to NVIDIA Chat RTX. AMD's 3rd Gen Ray accelerator is expected to reduce the performance cost of ray tracing, by putting more of the ray tracing workload through dedicated hardware, offloading the SIMD engine. Lastly, AMD is expected to significantly upgrade the media acceleration and display I/O of its GPUs.
AMD also announced FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4), which has been developed for RDNA 4 (not sure if it will work on older generations of Radeon). It introduces a new machine learning (ML) based upscaling component to handle Super Resolution. This will be paired with Frame Generation, and an updated Anti-Lag 2, to make up the FSR 4 feature-set. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is confirmed to be one of the first titles to utilize FSR 4.
Nearly all AMD add-in board partners (AIBs) are ready with Radeon 9070 series graphics cards, including Acer, ASRock, ASUS, GIGABYTE, Sapphire, PowerColor, XFX, Vastarmor, and Yeston. MSI seems to have discontinued being an AMD AIB.
We also got our first peek at what the "Navi 48" GPU powering the Radeon RX 9070 series looks like—it features an unusual rectangular die with a 2:1 aspect ratio, which seems to lend plausibility to the popular theory that the "Navi 48" is two "Navi 44" dies joined at the hip with full cache-coherency. The GPU is rumored to feature a 256-bit GDDR6 memory interface, and 64 compute units (4,096 stream processors). The "Navi 44," on the other hand, is exactly half of this (128-bit GDDR6, 32 CU). AMD is building the "Navi 48" and "Navi 44" on the TSMC N4P (4 nm EUV) foundry node, on which it is building pretty much its entire current-generation, from mobile processors, to CPU chiplets.
With RDNA 4, AMD claims generational SIMD performance increase on the RDNA 4 compute units. The 2nd Gen AI accelerators will boast of generational performance increase, and AMD will debut a locally-accelerated generative AI application down the line, called the AMD Adrenalin AI, which can generate images, summarize documents, and perform some linguistic/grammar tasks (rewriting), and serve as a chatbot for answering AMD-related queries. This is basically AMD's answer to NVIDIA Chat RTX. AMD's 3rd Gen Ray accelerator is expected to reduce the performance cost of ray tracing, by putting more of the ray tracing workload through dedicated hardware, offloading the SIMD engine. Lastly, AMD is expected to significantly upgrade the media acceleration and display I/O of its GPUs.
We also got our first peek at what the "Navi 48" GPU powering the Radeon RX 9070 series looks like—it features an unusual rectangular die with a 2:1 aspect ratio, which seems to lend plausibility to the popular theory that the "Navi 48" is two "Navi 44" dies joined at the hip with full cache-coherency. The GPU is rumored to feature a 256-bit GDDR6 memory interface, and 64 compute units (4,096 stream processors). The "Navi 44," on the other hand, is exactly half of this (128-bit GDDR6, 32 CU). AMD is building the "Navi 48" and "Navi 44" on the TSMC N4P (4 nm EUV) foundry node, on which it is building pretty much its entire current-generation, from mobile processors, to CPU chiplets.
318 Comments on AMD Debuts Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 Powered by RDNA 4, and FSR 4
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When the gaming handheld market keep on going AMD will have to advance their graphic cards. That could bring also benefits to desktop cards.
also just stepping back , fukups do happen but these events are planned months ahead entire teams work on this and their job depends on it so it’s not like some dude writing those notes down over the Christmas break . All this is planned . Just something to keep in mind .
My CES reaction it’s always been “ah cool I’ll keep in mind for next time I upgrade” and that’s it lol . I’m not reading too much into these curated speeches
They have a long ways to go to catch up.... I see people saying it will have 4080 RT performance. That is a long way to jump even to it's raster equivalent the 4070ti super.... My guess is it will come close to the 4070ti 12GB and even that would be a win compared to where they are at. But even if Nvidia improves this 15-20% per tier they are still going to be way behind again.
The RTX 5070 coming out at $800 is just disgusting (in a bad way) if they actually do it. The 4070 Super still debuted at $600 a year after its first version so if they price it more than its successor any higher it would not be a good look for that stack.
suck at 900-1k.
While I do expect the 5080 and especially the 5090 to be priced insane... I doubt below that will be all that bad..... But it is Nvidia I guess so I guess we will see.
We already educated guess and from leaks the 9070xt will be similar to 7900gre, probably with much better RT performance... No doubt its got "AI" upscaling etc etc...
Probably they'll price it the same as the 5070, or maybe 50 bucks less. Or why brand it as 9070? Issue can be if the 5070 is very expensive >700. Then they'll be no price / performance benefits from new gen at all.
If 9070XT has the same raster performance with 7900XT (which the slide doesn't provide exactly much confidence for this scenario, since it placing it at the same level despite all the other advancements Navi 48 has) then even if RX 9600 (Navi 44 based) has 10% higher clocks than 9070XT and the memory is 20Gbps, it will probably be just 5% faster than 6700XT in QHD but i doubt it will clock so high and also the memory probably will be 19Gbps.If RX 9600 has 16GB of memory and this kind of performance (7600XT +17%) i fear that AMD will try to price it at $350 which will be DOA (probably they will have a game selection placing it at the same performance level with RTX 4060Ti 16GB)
And tbf, the prices are warranted. When there is no other company on the entire planet that can make anything close to competitive with your products..
Was hoping for some good news from the amd camp at ces so I could buy Nvidia for cheaper but whatever, I'll have to pony up
RTX 5080 is hard to guess since the previous Super did come out at $1000 (so NVIDIA made themselves look "generous" :laugh:) but the predecessor was $1200. I would be surprised as hell if they do $1000 again.