Tuesday, February 4th 2025
AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series Launch Event Slated for Late-February
AMD is planning a media event to formally launch the Radeon RX 9070 series next-generation graphics cards some time in late-February 2024, VideoCardz reports. The company could simultaneously announce the flagship Radeon RX 9070 XT, its second-best RX 9070, and new stuff on the software side, such as FSR 4, although availability dates of each could vary. Availability of at least the top RX 9070 XT could be expected in March, the report says. Both the RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 are being prepared by AMD as performance-segment products, where they probably go up against SKUs from NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5070 series. Given the rather minor performance uplift the RTX 5080 yielded over its previous generation predecessor, the performance segment is in for some competition.
The Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 are both based on the 4 nm "Navi 48" silicon, which reportedly features 64 compute units for 4,096 stream processors, and a new generation AI accelerator that's both faster and more capable than the one introduced with RDNA 3. There is expected to be a significant uplift in the ray tracing performance, too, reducing the performance cost of enabling ray tracing in games. FSR 4 is expected to leverage the AI acceleration capabilities of RDNA 4 for its super resolution algorithm. Both SKUs are expected to have all 64 CU enabled, but differ in clock speeds. Both are expected to feature 16 GB of older GDDR6 memory across a 256-bit wide memory interface. As for the media event, we gathered from our post-CES roundtable with AMD that the event will at least be an online presentation.
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VideoCardz
The Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 are both based on the 4 nm "Navi 48" silicon, which reportedly features 64 compute units for 4,096 stream processors, and a new generation AI accelerator that's both faster and more capable than the one introduced with RDNA 3. There is expected to be a significant uplift in the ray tracing performance, too, reducing the performance cost of enabling ray tracing in games. FSR 4 is expected to leverage the AI acceleration capabilities of RDNA 4 for its super resolution algorithm. Both SKUs are expected to have all 64 CU enabled, but differ in clock speeds. Both are expected to feature 16 GB of older GDDR6 memory across a 256-bit wide memory interface. As for the media event, we gathered from our post-CES roundtable with AMD that the event will at least be an online presentation.
99 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series Launch Event Slated for Late-February
Anything else that seems like a good value is out of stock. Everywhere.Bots and scalpers will still scoop them all up and price us normies out. I work. I can't drive 2 hours to Microcenter to camp out at 4am.
I still wouldn't buy one right now. Maybe after the 9070 XT release when its price has (hopefully) dropped a little bit.Not necessarily. It isn't Nvidia, demand isn't that high. I can't see AMD pulling an artificial shortage trick, either. They don't need to retain chips for a Super "refresh" after all.
But because big OC headroom in 5080 its closer to 4090
Not everyone have 4080, ppls upgrade from 1000,2000 or from 3000 series to 5000 series.
RX 9070 is beating the 4070 Super and the RX 9070XT is beating the 4070Ti Super.
9070XT will not outperform the 4080 Super!
Remember we are paying for old performance this round unfortunately thanks Nvidia and AMD.
Cheers
Probably just gonna stick with the 3080 as it's still pretty fast.
What I was talking about is, however, AMD's naïve expectations.
Imagine the reactions if Mr Jensen held a 12-second presentation saying "RTX 50 is RTX 40 just one number higher", or if Dr Lisa came on stage only to say that we'll get a 7900 XT with a touch more RT and AI. :laugh:
Let's say the leak from MLID is true. In the charts he showed those cards are competent with the 7900xt(x). He also claimed those results are from December. Now take into consideration that AMD said the cards are performing better than expected and better than what the leaks were showing. I believe MLID leaks were after Azor said what he said, but MLID leaks corroborate with earlier leaks of rdna4... showing that the cards are actually punching above their weight(specs) class.
Isn't it not fair to say that the cards are in the 7900xtx/4080s tier of performance?
RX 9070XT is 100% below the RTX "4080 Super" & RX "7900 XTX".
Not sure why people are trying to make performance out of nowhere expecting miracles both companies are against us consumers right now we're not getting what we pay for they're all aiming for 2-year+ old 4080 GPU... Two years old performance at a lower price point.
Don't forget about all RTX are getting an software driver upgrade! DLSS 4 Enhanced driver for all RTX cards! Just putting another nail in AMD's coffin this 9000 series round.
Cheers
Have you not been paying attention to everything AMD has been saying. Like why it’s even called a 9070?The chart is directly from AMD.
7900xtx is better and was cheaper than a 4080(s) yet ppl still bought the nvidia card. Ppl like you is why the market is the way it is. Yall cry n moan about features yall don't use.So i guess a 5070=4090 right...o my bad it's nvidia... they can do no wrong. I guess we should believe them.
AMD said they renamed the GPU to 9070 because it’s a Nvidia 70 class GPU. Do you need to be fed the multiple interview videos explaining this, or do you think you can one yourself? Frank Azor is the name you are looking for. Director of Radeon marketing is his title.
Blind fanboyism strikes again.
I guess I'm the fanboy that runs both a 4080 and 6900xt currently right? Yall love to call names. Stick behind the keyboard and pretend to know what these companies do.
I said nvidia told yall the 5070=4090 right? So I guess you believed Jensen because oh nvidia said it. That is why I brought nvidia into the equation. If you can't deduce why that was said in contrast to what you said then by all means avoid me and my comments. This new breed of forum'ism is why I stay off forums.