Friday, February 21st 2025
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is a 304 W TBP Card, Regular RX 9070 Comes with 220 W Configuration
According to a well-known AMD hardware leaker, Hoang Anh Phu, AMD held a brief press conference where it confirmed that the upcoming Radeon RX 9070 XT and Radeon RX 9070 will carry a 304 Watt and 220 Watt total board power (TBP), respectively. While the post, originally on X is deleted, VideoCardz managed to read the information. AMD's TBP rating is similar to NVIDIA's total graphics power (TGP) metric, which measures both the chip and the memory and other components that the graphics card could contain under full load. So the TBP, and hence TGP, metrics are basically a rough outline of how much power the GPU will draw under full load.
AMD's upcoming Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 non-XT variants will consume 304 and 220 Watts, respectively, meaning that RDNA 4 IP will be relatively efficient. Interestingly, AMD settled on a 304-watt number instead of rounding it to 305, which usually happens. For reminder, the RX 9070 XT features 4,096 cores at 2.97 GHz boost clock, while the RX 9070 has 3,584 cores at 2.52 GHz. Both cards use a Navi 48 SKU, with 16 GB GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus running at 20 Gbps, achieving 640 GB/s bandwidth. Both utilize PCIe 5.0×16 and are rumored to be released on March 6, following their January announcement.
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AMD's upcoming Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 non-XT variants will consume 304 and 220 Watts, respectively, meaning that RDNA 4 IP will be relatively efficient. Interestingly, AMD settled on a 304-watt number instead of rounding it to 305, which usually happens. For reminder, the RX 9070 XT features 4,096 cores at 2.97 GHz boost clock, while the RX 9070 has 3,584 cores at 2.52 GHz. Both cards use a Navi 48 SKU, with 16 GB GDDR6 memory on a 256-bit bus running at 20 Gbps, achieving 640 GB/s bandwidth. Both utilize PCIe 5.0×16 and are rumored to be released on March 6, following their January announcement.
64 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT is a 304 W TBP Card, Regular RX 9070 Comes with 220 W Configuration
besides that, I also saw the news about XFX's 9070XT magnetic air and it's looking real fine to me ! can't wait to snag a white one for my build !
AMD Navi 48 RDNA4 GPU for Radeon RX 9070 pictured, may exceed NVIDIA AD103 size - VideoCardz.com
Getting hold of an MSRP 5070Ti yesterday seemed like a lot of effort and a lot of luck, but we know that retailers have had 9070 series cards in stock for 6+ weeks at this point - so hopefully they won't be scalped the same way Nvidia's "$749" 5070Ti was.
I'm hoping for a $649 price on the stock-clocked XT. That's higher than the $500 price point AMD said they were targeting, and still a disappointment - but with the 5070 Ti currently going for $900, I think $649 would be an appealing alternative, provided it's genuinely at the 4080-tier raster performance and 4070Ti-tier RT performance.
I'm not so worried about the 304W TDP if the vanilla card uses 220W - it just means that the default clocks/voltages are being pushed far too hard for the XT and a bit of light undervolting and perhaps limiting the clocks to 2950MHz instead of >3.1GHz will get me 97% of the performance for a 20-30% power reduction.
I'm pretty f'in toasted on talking about it until we know everything about it. (For me at least) it's fun to speculate and try to understand what they may do with the product, but this has been excessive.
I mean, this is our hobby and it's what we (and I) do...but sheesh. This prolonged escapade has been tiring for everyone, I think (and yes I do admit to my part in contributing to that).VRAM isn't faster though...that's the whole (potential) problem. If you think these are faster will likely depend on how you measure performance. RT buffed probably ~30% (per cu).
...and then you have to go by things like actual memory bandwidth and/or if you overclock. The actual flop/buffer if you overclock 7900xt will exceed these cards. If you don't,
Well, then 12288*2631 (7900xtx)/ 8192*2970 = 1.33x. There's a good chance *in not compute/buffer/bw-limited scenarios* it, or higher clocked models could match or exceed it in RT.
This is about the difference between nVIDIA and Navi3 (performance per unit per clock) and odds are by doubling TMUs (or whatever TAUs they added) likley could/will make up the difference.I'm still hoping AMD is trying to surprise us with the prices we initially expected.
I still think everything points to it *used* to be ~400/480 (many accounts of this from CES plus leaked bulgarian prices converted), and we saw that one (Gigabyte?) model listed for $530. That makes sense.
Listen, if I'm wrong I'm wrong and that's fine...It's not cope, it's a very fair/realistic opinion...but they could do it, and they should do it. If they changed it, they changed it...but then it's just a worse-to-bad deal!
Again, I'm as tired of this discussion as everyone...I truly am.Cache is possible, but again it also could be related to both the increased texture capability (for ray-tracing) we know to be true (gpu-z) if not allowing for much higher clocks. Again, the later long-speculated.
Again, look at 5070's die size. It is also strangely large for it's configuration (similar to 4070 series but 80% of units). Does it clock 25% higher? I don't know. Maybe! (Probably, actually).
This is why people should not be surprised by 3400-3500 (or even potentially greater) clockspeeds. They *could* happen. The process is built for it. Do I *know* they'll do this? No.304 * 15%+ PL = 350W
Like i've speculated...pretty sure they're binning and power/clock locking these chips so they fit in very particular categories. Will wait for W1zard's analysis to confirm.
I'm very curious the clock potential of the chip. If the cache isn't increased, and the VRAM isn't increased, but it clocks well then this (XT) being the top product makes no sense. We shall see.
All I know is, don't (necessarily)trust Frank. That's his job.
The 4070S (56 CUDA cores) is 220W. The 4070TiS (66 CUDA cores) is 285W. Difference 65W.
I don't think the gap is different enough compared to other examples to warrant any concern.