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
SsethAMD here. We are launching a new awesome GPU line. Well, not launching exactly, but we are telling you we will. In the future. It’s gonna be pretty cool, you’ll see. Here’s the specs. Hm? When’s it coming? Sometime. Soon. Maybe. How much will it cost? Uh, a certain amount of currency, probably. L-look, can we get back to you on that? At a later, unspecified date? Yeah. Okay. Get hyped AMD bros!STRATEGY
I'd love for an AMD gpu to be awesome. Despite what AMD fanboys think I'd love to not give Nvidia my money just like I'm not bothered not giving Intel my money. Even though Intel really needs to do better as well.
In a perfect world each company would 1 up each other at least every other generation. The reality is for the last decade only Nvidia has consistently offered products in the perfomance category I buy in.
I'm still hoping the 9070XT kicks ass regardless of if it's a product I'd actually buy. I do a lot of systems where a kick ass 4-600 gpu would fit perfectly and everything in that price range has had asterisk next to them in my book or were unoptanium during the pandemic... So it's been a while since i loved a product in that range.
4070 super with 16GB or a 7800XT with much better RT/Upscaling would have been nice but we got two mildly expensive cards with downsides in my book instead.
The compute units will be "optimized," AI compute will be "supercharged," ray-tracing will be "improved," and media encoding quality will be "better".
AMD can’t even do a proper product announcement. They expect people to buy that glop? No wonder Nvidia completely stomps them.
If you need a card for both games and work, I don't expect much to change unless AMD can get devs to work with rocM.I don't get hyped up for marketing presentations, but yeah I was expecting something more than just an announcement, if AMD wants to keep quiet maybe not saying anything about GPU's at all would have been better.
I want AMD to at least get back to those generations I'm not naive enough to think they can pull another 4870.... RDNA2 looked like a step in the right direction honestly was super excited for RDNA3 but it feels like it missed the mark.... The jury is still out on RDNA4 but if it was amazing and AMD could price it cheap they would have been more confident about it imho not just see what Nvidia is going to do.
Even if AMD made a somewhat competitve product like they did with the 6900XT/6950XT... Nvidia actually made a more expensive 3090 as a response lol so anyone thinking Nvidia is going to lower prices is on some good shit.
I mean 40 series had it's own tech and you better believe something will be locked to 5000 series and then 2 years later guess what 6000 series.... Eventually it likely will be what new features if offers more than X performance gains... Better that AMD jumped on that train now before it's too late.
morethanmoore.substack.com/p/where-was-rdna4-at-amds-keynoteIt's not like a company owns any favors to customers, but rather they'll just follow the money.
AMD needs to keep up it's development for it's Console contracts or else MS/Sony will switch to Intel or even possibly Nvidia they were exploring ARM based cpu cores at one point seemingly.( . )( . ) seems to be working fine.....Let's be honest they are greedy bastards but it's not like anyone else is offering anything to curb that greediness...
Although without knowing how much the silicon actually cost to make and develop and just arm chair throwing accusations at X company that's really hard to even know how greedy they are being... I mean AMD doesn't even seem to be making money on their gpu's but their margins were still 50% last I checked.... and Nvidia is selling professional hardware for 4x what we buy the gpu's at so them having good margins is hard to know how much other than the 4090 is actually contributing to that.
Let's be honest, many only want AMD to force a price cut on Ngreedia GPUs.
Those people will never buy an AMD GPU.
I understand if you absolutely need cuda, for example or need a 4090 then fine, but the rest can buy anything else from AMD and be happy, yet they are not buying them.Yet it was ok when dlss 3.whatever required a 40 series.
At this point it's clear, being pro consumer is not paying off for AMD, even in the form of positive mindshare.Hi Wolf, haven't seen you in a while. :D