Wednesday, February 26th 2025
Complete Specifications of AMD Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT Leaked
VideoCardz obtained AMD Radeon RX 9070 series specifications, which appear to be the official final configurations of the upcoming RDNA 4 GPUs. As we previously expected, the lineup consists of two models based on the Navi 48 GPU, which integrates 53.9 billion transistors on a 357 mm² die using a 4 nm (N5) process from TSMC. Both the RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 utilize identical memory configurations: 16 GB of GDDR6 memory running at 20 Gbps across a 256-bit bus, delivering 640 GB/s bandwidth. Each card implements 64 MB of 3rd Generation Infinity Cache and supports PCIe 5.0 x16 interface standards. The RX 9070 XT features 64 RDNA 4 Compute Units, equating to 4096 Stream Processors, 64 Ray Accelerators, and 128 AI Accelerators. It operates at a 2400 MHz game clock and 2970 MHz boost clock, providing 48.7 TFLOPS of single-precision FP32 compute performance.
Power requirements include a 304 W TBP and a recommended 750 W power supply. The standard RX 9070 reduces specifications to 56 Compute Units (3584 Stream Processors), 56 Ray Accelerators, and 112 AI Accelerators. Clock speeds decrease to 2070 MHz game clock and 2540 MHz boost clock, with correspondingly lower power requirements of 220 W TBP and a recommended 650 W power supply. Since both SKUs use the same Navi 48 die, the separation between them is likely better binning for the XT version, and lower bins end up for the non-XT version. Both models support HDMI 2.1b and DisplayPort 2.1a UHBR13.5 outputs. AMD has confirmed the cards will launch exclusively through board partners with no reference designs planned and that the official unveiling will be in March. Earlier rumors have suggested a $699 price tag for the Radeon RX 9070 XT SKU, putting its expected price/performance near NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5070 Ti. AMD notes that 85% of gamers buy cards below $700, which the RDNA 4 series will focus on.
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VideoCardz
Power requirements include a 304 W TBP and a recommended 750 W power supply. The standard RX 9070 reduces specifications to 56 Compute Units (3584 Stream Processors), 56 Ray Accelerators, and 112 AI Accelerators. Clock speeds decrease to 2070 MHz game clock and 2540 MHz boost clock, with correspondingly lower power requirements of 220 W TBP and a recommended 650 W power supply. Since both SKUs use the same Navi 48 die, the separation between them is likely better binning for the XT version, and lower bins end up for the non-XT version. Both models support HDMI 2.1b and DisplayPort 2.1a UHBR13.5 outputs. AMD has confirmed the cards will launch exclusively through board partners with no reference designs planned and that the official unveiling will be in March. Earlier rumors have suggested a $699 price tag for the Radeon RX 9070 XT SKU, putting its expected price/performance near NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5070 Ti. AMD notes that 85% of gamers buy cards below $700, which the RDNA 4 series will focus on.
54 Comments on Complete Specifications of AMD Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT Leaked
- This is Vega 2.0
AMD is incapable of learning from their mistakes.
That's why we're getting all these leaks and early benchmark runs. Everyone (AIBs, retailers) involved with the GPUs has had far more hands-on time with them than originally planned. There were even AIB models at CES that attendees could handle. Everyone was ready to launch them until AMD pumped the brakes.
Even I’m disappointed and I wasn’t on the hype train.
In my opinion AMD has fixed the dual issue, with an efficiency (IPC) almost 40% higher per CU.
64 vs 96 CU, 64 vs 192 Rops, 64 vs 96 RT, and only +500mhz clock... incredible.
Prices, hopefully 9070 = 7900GRE and 9070XT = 7900XT of today's street prices.
PS. 9070 220watt has a sensational efficiency, +35% vs 7900XT 300watt... Absurd.
Toms article ended with"If AMD does plan to launch the RX 9070 series this month, or at least open pre-orders, expect a briefing on specifications and pricing in a few days."
Even Toms didn't just jump to a conclusion on when it will launch.I know, just tired of people complaining about the extra power usage every time AMD's name comes up, and when you check the graphs it's a few watts either side.
You think after AMD has done this TWICE, they would realize this strategy doesn't work. But they still do it anyway..I wouldn't really use these examples as these are very much after the fact; but I do agree. The 6700XT was a standout GPU from RDNA2, offering great value but that was only after it dropped in price, compared to the 3070 anyway.If you were to ask me their fundamental problem is that AMD failed to market to gamers back when gaming was hitting its peak (the early / mid 2010's), and now they're paying the price for it. Every gamer, every parent of that gamer, etc know what NVIDIA is, but hardly anyone outside of the tech sphere knows what AMD is. And that, while doesn't seem like it hurts, does. Especially for Gaming GPU's; something that is sold to the general public. NVIDIA has made a name for itself by being the GAMER brand (while also simultaneously straying further away from gamers every single year.), where as AMD is treated like an awkward middle child who people acknowledge exists but don't associate with gaming, or the general public at all.
I think AMD should invest its next steps forward into investing a lot more into marketing, as its pretty clear that AMD isn't cutting it in that department. Make people associate AMD GPU's with GAMING for gods sake, instead of 'oh my grandma bought me a cheap prebuilts with a RX 6600.. yay...'
Of course, were just talking their gaming GPU's here. Everywhere else AMD is fine (Imo)Marketing is big part of prebuilts (which is why you still see many prebuilts rocking the new intel chips, despite the fact many people do not like them.) so I definitely agree with that part. But in that regard, AMD's Ryzen chips also still sell well with prebuilts. As for laptops.. yea, intel dominates that. There's an elaborate story about the ins and outs of why AMD is seemingly behind in laptops but it's alot to get into, probably worth a whole separate discussion honestly.
I really didn't expect that.
All that is left for an actual public announce from AMD and an actual launch.
This horse has been beaten into atomized dust at this point :D
Something doesnt add up here. A 40% increase per CU would be absolutely jaw dropping, I dont believe ANY generation, even going back to the R300 days, has achieved that.
If it were me, and I knew I had such a great arch on my hands, I'd be parading the 9070xt out there, doing my best to derail the nvidia hype train. I'd be talking about 9060s and the huge changes coming to the lower end and mid range. And I'd be planning a 9080xt to rip off the 5090's crown. It's not often you get such a slam dunk on larger competition.
But in the GPU market, they haven't innovated. Nvidia has been first to literally every single new technology/feature, with AMD lagging 2-5 years behind. AI cores, RT cores, upscaling, reflex, frame generation, etc. AMD has done a good job improving the performance of RDNA, I'll give them that. But they haven't come up with a single NEW technology or feature for at least a decade. There's just no excuse for that. It's like nobody at Radeon has the ability to think "what would be cool, but doesn't exist yet?"
Those are very ambitious numbers, considering the 7900 XT and XTX are around ~18% and ~37% better than the GRE according to TPU's Relative Performance chart with the GRE as the baseline.
If the numbers are true, great. If not, then well, shit.