Friday, January 10th 2025
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Pricing Leak: More Affordable Than RTX 5070?
As we reported yesterday, the Radeon RX 9070 XT appears to be all set to disrupt the mid-range gaming GPU segment, offering performance that looks truly enticing, at least if the leaked synthetic benchmarks are anything to go by. The highest-end RDNA 4 GPU is expected to handily outperform the RTX 4080 Super despite costing half as much, with comparison to its primary competitor, the RTX 5070, yet to be made.
Now, a fresh leak has seemingly hinted at how heavy the RDNA 4 GPU is going to be on its buyers' pockets. Also sourced from Chiphell, the Radeon RX 9070 XT is expected to command a price tag between $479 for AMD's reference card and roughly $549 for an AIB unit, varying based on which exact product one opts for. At that price, the Radeon RX 9070 XT easily undercuts the RTX 5070, which will start from $549, while offering 16 GB of VRAM, albeit of the older GDDR6 spec. There is hardly any doubt that the RTX GPU will come out ahead in ray tracing performance, as we already witnessed yesterday, although traditional rasterization performance will be more interesting to compare.
In a recent interview, AMD Radeon's Frank Azor has already stated that the RDNA 4 cards will be priced as "not a $300 card, but also not a $1,000 card", which frankly does not reveal much at all. He did also state that the RDNA 4 cards will attempt a mix of performance and price, similar to the RX 7800 XT and the RX 7900 GRE. All that remains to be done now, is to wait and see whether AMD's claims hold water.
Source:
HXL (@9550pro)
Now, a fresh leak has seemingly hinted at how heavy the RDNA 4 GPU is going to be on its buyers' pockets. Also sourced from Chiphell, the Radeon RX 9070 XT is expected to command a price tag between $479 for AMD's reference card and roughly $549 for an AIB unit, varying based on which exact product one opts for. At that price, the Radeon RX 9070 XT easily undercuts the RTX 5070, which will start from $549, while offering 16 GB of VRAM, albeit of the older GDDR6 spec. There is hardly any doubt that the RTX GPU will come out ahead in ray tracing performance, as we already witnessed yesterday, although traditional rasterization performance will be more interesting to compare.
88 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Pricing Leak: More Affordable Than RTX 5070?
I'll be back in two months my precious.
But the question remains, will there be enough reference cards to fulfill the demand at that price or will people have to pay up for the AIB custom cards? $549 isn't bad either but it's not $479.
Since the 5070 is supposed to be $549, the 9070XT either needs to be significantly faster than it (like 20%) to justify a similar price, or more likely it needs to be significantly cheaper.
Even then, if FSR4 is as good as DLSS4, and even if RT performance is closer to, or even beating Nvidia, it's still lacking CUDA and it still sucks down way more power (based on the leaked Asus TUF model pulling 330W according to GPU-Z)
I can't wait for reviews!
It's sad for re-sale value yes but a again cards like AMD Radeon RX 590 where I am was late last year selling for like £112 and they have now fallen to more reasonable £56.
Isn't a reference card (AMD) manufactured video card manufacturers and only sold by AMD itself? So XFX and powercolor may be the manufacturers of the AMD 7800 XT but they themselves aren't branded on there or sell them directly to consumers or retailers? Hence the expected shortage of reference designs and delineation from an AIB's video card, such as an XFX 7800 XT Merc?
At least on the AMD side everything is open-source and their tech has wide adoption. FSR4 will be exclusive to the new cards initially, but at least AMD confirmed that they are working on bringing it to older cards. Good luck getting a similar commitment from Nvidia.
www.sapphiretech.com/en/consumer/21322-01-20g-radeon-rx-7900-xtx-24g-gddr6
Only Nvidia keeps their reference "Founders Edition" cards for themselves.
The 1080 was launched 7 years ago at $600-700. That's almost $800-900 in today's money. The 4080 was launched 2 years ago for $1200 (or $1300 in today's money). That's an additional 50% because screw you, AMD sucked too much to matter, crypto was still raging, and all reviews raved about RT being God's gift to gamers.
This being said, the RX 9070 XT might just convince me to upgrade although I kind of expect 600+ EUR around my parts which is tempting but also not.
Not buying a 12GB gpu in 2025.
New Navi 48 die is larger than expected, maybe they doubled cache or whatever. Still, I remain doubtful. There are no performance leaks from AMD itself, except that RX 9070 XT will be priced somewhere in $300-$1000 range and that some user performance claims were flagged as bad rumors by AMD. All other leaks, like this about $479 for reference RX 9070 XT, is nothing more than a "some user" leak or fantasy. Same goes for performance. It's vital to distinguish what AMD leaked and what leaked users on forums or Twitter.
As much as I want this leak of RX 9070 XT to be true, because that would really shake the market and might get AMD GPU's noticeable market share boost, I try to stay with legs on the ground, not in the clouds.
Better expect less than more, you will be less disappointed.
Somewhere I read that AMD wanted to present RDNA4 in CES, but 45 minutes window was not enough and especially not when AMD learned that Dell is going to put AMD CPUs/APUs in business class laptops (Latitude) for the first time, they decided to remove the RDNA from the presentation and rather focus on talking about success with Dell. God only knows where's the truth ...
I expect the 5070 to be slower than the 4080/4080s/7900xtx based on nvidias msrp, no node change, and likely small to no clock improvements.
If the stars align 9070XT thats 5%+ slower than a 7900XTX or 4080s in raster, and matches 7900xtx RT performance would be a good deal at $549. It has to be a decent chunk faster than the 5070 if its going to sell at this price.
For all the people that moan about upscaling, the FSR4 preview compared to 3.1 showed large improvements that should quell the upscaling zealots.
Then you have reference designs which are made by Asus/Asrock/Gigabyte/Powercolor/Sapphire/XFX etc that use the MBA PCB layout with their brand-specific coolers adapted for the MBA PCB layout.
Then you have the MSRP base models that are usually the AIB vendor's own PCB design, built as cheap as they think they can get away with and sold at the same MSRP as the MBA models. In most cases the AIB will try to launch with these or at least switch to their own cheaper designs as soon as possible since they make more profit on cards they manufacture themselves rather than just rebranding the PC Partner MBA ones.
After that you have all the various premium variants with overbuilt power delivery and bigger coolers. I generally never find much value in these but they do seem to be popular because people seem to want large cards with quieter coolers, even if they're 15% more expensive for 2% more performance. I'm not judging - just saying what I see.12GB is 2025's minimum VRAM quantity, IMO.
I think 12GB today is like buying an 8GB card in 2021 - fine at the time but only suitable for 1080p these last couple of years. I don't see a problem with 12GB cards as long as they're entry-level models aimed at the $200-350 price tier right now. By the time they run out of VRAM they won't have enough raw performance for higher settings and higher resolutions anyway.Fair enough. I've done that with a few GPUs in the past and refused to even throw away my MGA Millenium, Voodoo2, 9700 Pro, and GTX980 reference card once they'd become obsolete.
Tariffs could be a huge bummer for those in the US. I'm unsure whether that's going to impact the ROW market, since both AMD and Nvidia are headquartered in the US, despite all manufacturing being done in Taiwan/SG/HK/China