Tuesday, January 21st 2025
AMD Sets March Launch Window for Radeon RX 9070 XT & 9070 Graphics Cards
AMD has finally made an official announcement regarding the much anticipated launch of RDNA 4 graphics cards. The first wave of next-generation models—Radeon RX 9070 XT and 9070 (non-XT)—are lined up for a loose "around March" release, thus conforming to recent company statements that pointed to a first quarter (of 2025) rollout. The rumor mill had Team Red strategizing a launch for later this month—potentially beating NVIDIA to the next-gen GPU punch, but "price hurdles" and other factors have allegedly contributed to a revision of tactics.
Yesterday, David McAfee—Vice President and General Manager of Ryzen and Radeon products—ended speculation with a social media post: "Radeon 9000 series hardware and software are looking great, and we are planning to have a wide assortment of cards available globally. Can't wait for gamers to get their hands on the cards when they go on sale in March!" Hardcore PC hardware enthusiasts will likely be left confused by this fresh proclamation—a steady flow of January leaks have provided evidence of Navi 48 GPU-based products sitting in retail storage facilities, unboxing of certain partner models, and insiders playtesting early samples. Industry watchdogs posit that AMD's "aggressive pricing approach" has rubbed retailers the wrong way—the extra wiggle room could be spent on negotiating wholesale costs.
Sources:
David McAfee Tweet, Tom's Hardware, Wccftech, VideoCardz
Yesterday, David McAfee—Vice President and General Manager of Ryzen and Radeon products—ended speculation with a social media post: "Radeon 9000 series hardware and software are looking great, and we are planning to have a wide assortment of cards available globally. Can't wait for gamers to get their hands on the cards when they go on sale in March!" Hardcore PC hardware enthusiasts will likely be left confused by this fresh proclamation—a steady flow of January leaks have provided evidence of Navi 48 GPU-based products sitting in retail storage facilities, unboxing of certain partner models, and insiders playtesting early samples. Industry watchdogs posit that AMD's "aggressive pricing approach" has rubbed retailers the wrong way—the extra wiggle room could be spent on negotiating wholesale costs.
116 Comments on AMD Sets March Launch Window for Radeon RX 9070 XT & 9070 Graphics Cards
I was very interested in Navi 48, but when I know the target power I no longer am. Now I more want to see Navi 44...
In other words, their trying to manage their losses. Imagine what the stock market would do if they took a huge hit (even if it is one time) to their earnings. The stock market is no longer concerned with how any one company does, and AMD is already getting killed because Nvidia is so far ahead in AI, not because they're performing badly. And one bad quaartly result would have the stock worth less that it was 2 years ago, despite consistant growth.
JFC AMD, fire your ENTIRE marketing team, NOW. And most of your RTG management team. These people are dead weight. Nvidia is going to have sold hundreds of thousands of 5070s and 5080s by the time you pull your head from your collective anus and figure out how to launch a GPU. :slap::nutkick::banghead:Oh dont worry about it! School is, frankly, for the lowest common denominator these days. What with major public school systems graduating students with sub 10% literacy rates and all.... :wtf::kookoo:
I remember being bored stiff in school. Learning a smattering of garbage that has 0 relevance to my life as an adult, whereas the stuff I looked into on my own time determined my career and success. I was qualified at 17 to hold a full time job and start my career. HS was more of a formality, the public schools are glorified babysitting services for teenagers, little actual learning takes place. Even if we didnt have the issues of imbecile parents and enablement and victimhood mentalities ruining entire generations of kids, I can assure you that you are more then likely smarter than most of your teachers. In my experience the actual good teachers dont last long before getting fed up.
You'd undoubtably do a better job then the clowns at AMD.
Also, it doesn't look like FSR4 is ready. In their place, after seeing DLSS4, I would make sure there is some FSR4 for comparison and RTX 5070 out. This way they will get best first benchmarks that will stay up for long time.
I know nobody asked, but my money is on: Nvidia blindsided AMD and now they have to sell the 9070XT at cost. Or worse.
Get a life.