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
Let me add that in AMDs material the 7700 XT overlaps with the 4060 TI. So no, you do not know more about AMD’s product than AMD themselves. From a company executive, identifying themselves as such it is. Ask Elon.
There's going to be a performance floor like ~7900XTX level just to push the pixels on our 2K/4K screens.
As in that will be the minimum silicon scrap to launch. It sounds weird, right?
It will be when 8K becomes somewhat common and priced well under $1000 USD. These aren't high end cards by any means but the first interesting products in a new lineup.
This also bootstraps the trajectory for UDNA, whenever that happens.
Many of us don't want or need anything new and that's GREAT.
Many of us have been waiting on new drops for a while.
I passed up the 5700XT, 6800XT and couldn't manage the 7900XT.
Maybe the 9070XT is okay but then all this weird secrecy and aversion to launch details happens. Not cool.
Do you see how maybe this would be a little frustrating?
Now add creators and content brains that need these for work.
We already suffer weird problems with launches because of cryptobros, sneakerheads and other garbage infecting this space.
Then there's the Chinese chopping block that makes a buck off the pain by selling mutilated mining cards.
Then vendors get in on the action because "oh, normies are now buying THIS slop, time to capitalize and make it a race to the bottom!"
The rest of us are left behind because a card that was originally the target for gaming gets co-opted and ruined by non-gamers.
I hope the entire marketing team gets fired for this.
Quit shifting the goalposts and listen for a change. You just may learn a thing.
Are you clueless about what happen between Elon Musk and the SEC over his tweets?
But do try to keep on the subject of the thread, ok?
www.amd.com/content/dam/amd/en/documents/pdfs/corporate/amd-intel-settlement-agreement-full.pdf
I would open a can of worms because I've experienced first hand what 'unlawfulness' intel was up to at the time but i'll stop. But yes, a settlement isn't a fine. Not sure how that matters though because in short, AMD sued Intel and Intel paid them to 'settle' the lawsuit. They wouldn't be paying if they weren't in the wrong.
I’m sure you just missed that and weren’t trying to cherry pick a particular result to push a narrative. Everyone makes mistakes. Of course it can be rather embarrassing calling someone else‘s comment “ignorant“ in such a case.
There's no memory configuration listed in AMD's slides, but clearly the 8GB 4060Ti i'm talking about is bright green at the bottom of the chart and considerably slower than the 7700XT. You're talking about the 4060Ti 16GB, you know the one that has been ridiculed to infinity and no one even talks about.
Even if we assume AMD meant an average of 8/16GB 4060Ti's, it would still come to ~112% which is still slower than a 7700XT in RT.
I'll ignore your second line altogether but no need for theatrics. I guess you got worked up over the word ignorant, so let's just go with incorrect.