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
People complain about me so..
Cant please everyone! :D
For a user like myself, this product doesn’t appeal to me as I gravitate toward higher end products. I would rather buy a console like the PS5 Pro than this product or a Steam Deck just to use remote play at 4K from my other PCs.
AMD seems to be going all in on shareholder desires versus core business, and it really is a shame that we are going back to the 5700 XT days for a generation. I am still anxious for a review from W1z.
I do find it somewhat strange to see so many users be outright against this product if they are interested in midrange. You’re going to get a price competitive product with better ray tracing and good upscaling. In the same token, continuing to buy Nvidia at inflated costs will not help your desire for price competitive options when Nvidia is controlling anywhere between 60%-80% of the market.
Ultimately Nvidia will destroy the market if marginal to verbatim monopolistic practices continue. The pricing will drive more and more to their cloud service or other cloud services which are using their products in server racks. This scenario is shareholder desired because they generate subscription revenue versus one time purchases.
Yeah.... You Nvidia loving troll.... Even though your platform has been AMD for a while now.....
Their CDNA lineup is also making them some cash due to the AI craze and Nvidia not being able to supply all their customers.
I'd say they're just not that invested in the consumer dGPU segment since they have other products with better margins that they can focus their fab allocation on.
I have absolutely 0 faith their RT performance has actually improved at all. rDNA3 was supposedly "much improved" and delivered nothing.Yeah I guess you're right. All us AMD owning people who want AMD to actually compete are actually just paid Nvidia boogeymen! But int he end you get what you wanted, AMD without discounts in a distant 2nd place. Yay?Repeat after me: "RTG margins are roughly 2-3%".
(Though even if responding in the affirmative, I probably won't believe you.)
the number of times I have been accused of lying about my GPU, or my interest in future AMD GPUs, has been astonishing. Funny enough, Nvidia users dont usually accuse me of lying.
That's good, however I can get an RX6600 for $270CAD, how will the fps/$ compare?
*Hyperbole, don't @ me
They don't need to be at the top of the GPU performance figures to make money.
I don't know anybody personally that has paid or would pay more than £600 on a GPU. £600 is an astronomical amount for the single component of a system with the shortest working lifespan. It's already a price point that is outside of the scope of a first time PC builder, or a pre-made buyer. Those people are looking at 4060's and 7600 xt's in the sub £300 market.
Personally I think top end GPU's are loss leaders. There's no way the components and RND that goes into a £2000 card that is going to sell a miniscule volume is ever going to make money. It's sole purpose is to carry the branding. Nvidia have already won the brand war.
So AMD stepping back a little, and concentrating on cards that are actually going to sell in volume, and make profit. I'm all for that. It makes AMD stronger, It lets them lower the cost of their cards by not wasting the huge amounts of money needed to produce cards that simply don't move from the shelves. So if it works, I should get a better deal as well (in the future).
I think AMD needs to keep quiet about their GPU's especially if they have something competitive, they can't win a price war against Nvidia.As opposed to AMD with significant discounts losing money and still in a distant second place. The only reason a majority of people in this thread want AMD to compete is so they can hope Nvidia cards will be cheaper, but they won't be.Have a source for this?
Still, going for a Polaris strategy might work for AMD, no doubt. That was the last time they managed to claw back some market share, so precedent is set for reasonably priced “mass appeal” cards selling well.
I want AMD to compete so I don't have to keep spending on Nvidia.
Try not to sound so defeated. AMD is doing ok, they are pulling their balls together.
Right now its David vs Goliath, and Dave's socially awkward, mildly autistic cousin Irwin.
No but seriously, I think theres very few people who aren't thinking like you are. Its just a very middling day for AMD fans. I just can't get super excited about this.