Wednesday, February 12th 2025
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Could Get a 32 GB GDDR6 Upgrade
AMD's Radeon RX 9000 series GPUs are expected to come with up to 16 GB of GDDR6 memory. However, AMD is reportedly expanding its RX 9070 lineup with a new 32 GB variant, according to sources on Chiphell. The card, speculatively called the RX 9070 XT 32 GB, is slated for release at the end of Q2 2025. The current GDDR6 memory modules used in GPUs carry a capacity of 2 GB per module only, meaning that a design with 32 GB of VRAM would require as many as 16 memory modules on a single card. No 2 GB+ GDDR6 memory modules are available, meaning that the design would require memory module installation on both the front and back of the PCB. Consumers GPUs are not known for this, but it is a possibility with workstation/prosumer grade GPUs employing this engineering tactic to boost capacity,
While we don't have information on the GPU architecture, discussions point to potential modifications of the existing Navi 48 silicon. This release is positioned as a gaming card rather than a workstation-class Radeon PRO 9000 series product. AMD appears to be targeting gamers interested in running AI workloads, which typically require massive VRAM amounts to run locally. Additionally, investing in a GPU with a big VRAM capacity is essentially "future-proofing" for gamers who plan to keep their cards for longer, as recent games have been spiking VRAM usage by a large margin. The combination of gaming and AI workloads may have made AMD reconsider some of its product offerings, potentially giving us the Radeon RX 9070 XT 32 GB SKU. We have to wait for the Q2 to start, and we can expect more details by then.
Sources:
Chiphell, via VideoCardz
While we don't have information on the GPU architecture, discussions point to potential modifications of the existing Navi 48 silicon. This release is positioned as a gaming card rather than a workstation-class Radeon PRO 9000 series product. AMD appears to be targeting gamers interested in running AI workloads, which typically require massive VRAM amounts to run locally. Additionally, investing in a GPU with a big VRAM capacity is essentially "future-proofing" for gamers who plan to keep their cards for longer, as recent games have been spiking VRAM usage by a large margin. The combination of gaming and AI workloads may have made AMD reconsider some of its product offerings, potentially giving us the Radeon RX 9070 XT 32 GB SKU. We have to wait for the Q2 to start, and we can expect more details by then.
45 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT Could Get a 32 GB GDDR6 Upgrade
I am to see, however, Samsung's GDDR6W. Has anything ever used it? It's been 2 years since Sammy announced it and still nothing?
I specially suggested 32GB 9070XT to AMD on Linkedin, super glad this is closer to reality! 32GB GPU can outperform 24GB models like 7900XTX and 4090 simply because bigger models will not fit 24GB. Smaller model speed is determined by VRAM bandwidth and here 4090 and 7900XTX still have advantage over 9070XT. Since nVidia is using GDDR7 on all new GPUs, it is very difficult for them to make relatively affordable 32GB GPU.
And as usual, Ngreedia "features" are not called what they really are, proprietary lock-in crap which exist to limit your options and keep you locked into their hardware.
Its sad how todays consumers dont demand platform agnostic tech.
Both nVidia, and AMD keep falsely advertise compute SKUs to compute folks, as "gaming" protucts. This does wash away the boundaries of both, gaming and enterprise products. This surely is welcome by both GPU makers, and AI gang, but is horrible for the regular buyer and user, to which these "Gaming" cards should be aimed towards.
Those who use GPUs for work, should buy the corresponding workstation/enterprise products. This inflates the bottom end GPU stack, which gaming GPUs indeed are, thus making them even more beyond the reach, no only by "regular" folks, but for the prosumers themselves. People really like to shoot themselves in their feet.
Now I'm curious again about 9070XT. If it beats 5070Ti in raster and isn't much slower in RT, I would consider buying team red instead of green. I wanted to wait for 5070Ti 24GB, which now will compete with 9070XT 32GB.
2 x 9070 XT 32GB gives me 64GB of usable VRAM.
Which means I can run 70B or larger models without having to hit system ram.
if price is $750 x 2 = will be cheaper than 3090,4090 x 2 or 7900,7900XTX x 2 for the same use case with more VRAM.Valid point but I also think people are just throwing around the AI term without talking about the details and use case which is very important.
Are we talking AI image generation? LLM's and interference speed etc. For somethings even with a ton of VRAM you may not want to leave the CUDA ecosystem and for others cases its fine.
The details matter.
My old 12gb 3060 would at times out perform 3070's and in once case a friends (10gb) 3080 cause they would run out of VRAM before I would.