Friday, February 28th 2025

AMD RDNA 4 and Radeon RX 9070 Series Unveiled: $549 & $599

AMD today unveiled the highly-anticipated AMD RDNA 4 graphics architecture with the launch of the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 graphics cards as a part of the Radeon RX 9000 Series. The new graphics cards feature 16 GB of memory and extensive improvements designed for high-quality gaming graphics, including re-vamped raytracing accelerators and powerful AI accelerators for ultra-fast, cutting-edge performance, and breakthrough gaming experiences.

In a YouTube livestream, David McAfee, CVP and GM, Ryzen CPU and Radeon Graphics AMD, was joined by Andrej Zdravkovic, SVP of GPU Technologies and Engineering and Chief Software Officer, AMD, as well as Andy Pomianowski, CVP of Silicon Design Engineering, AMD, to discuss the outstanding performance and value proposition of the Radeon RX 9000 Series. In a related event in Zhuhai, China, Jack Huynh, SVP of the Client and Graphics Group, AMD, led a regional event for the new products. Huynh was joined by David Wang, SVP of GPU Technology and Engineering, AMD, and Lanzhi Wang, Senior Director of Product Management, AMD. The celebration was also marked by a customer celebration with Darren Grasby, EVP and Chief Sales Officer, AMD; Spencer Pan, President of AMD China, and partners including Asrock, ASUS, Gigabyte, Sapphire, Tul, Vastarmor, Veston, and XFX.
"Today, we're thrilled to unveil the AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series, a significant leap forward in graphics performance powered by our next-generation AMD RDNA 4 architecture," said McAfee. "These GPUs are designed to meet the demands of today's games, delivering enthusiast-class gaming experiences to gamers everywhere, while ready to support tomorrow's innovations. Through the power of advanced AI and Raytracing accelerators, we're not just improving frame rates - we're fundamentally enhancing the gaming experience. Offering incredible performance, AI-powered features, and next-gen display support at competitive price points, the Radeon RX 9000 Series delivers exceptional value for gamers looking to upgrade their systems."

The RX 9000 Series, powered by the new AMD RDNA 4 architecture, offers gamers and creators a powerful blend of performance, visuals, and value. These advanced graphics cards redefine incredibly fast, high-resolution gaming with third-generation ray tracing technology enabling realistic lighting, shadows, and reflections to deliver immersive gaming experiences while integrating a suite of AMD features to maximize hardware utilization. Beyond gaming, the RX 9000 Series GPUs leverage new second-generation AI accelerators with up to 8x INT8 throughput per AI accelerator (for sparse matrices) to enhance creative applications and effectively run generative AI applications (vs. RDNA 3). The RX 9000 Series GPUs also implement the newly redesigned AMD Radiance Display Engine & Enhanced Media Engine for broad display support and elevated quality in both recording and streaming.

Gaming For Today and Tomorrow
The Radeon RX 9000 Series unlocks new levels of performance while delivering a suite of new and enhanced features that improve the gaming experience. The Radeon RX 9070 Series offers 16 GB of GDDR6 memory, allowing gamers to render the most exciting games of today and tomorrow at max settings. Compared to the previous generation RX 7900 GRE, the latest AMD Radeon RX 9070 is able to deliver over 20% more performance on average when gaming at 1440, with the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT extending that lead to over 40% on average.
Both graphics cards make smart upgrades for gamers looking to future-proof their systems with a suite of next-gen features that will keep their experiences feeling fresh for years to come. Key features include:
  • Unified AMD RDNA 4 Compute Units - Features up to 64 advanced AMD RDNA 4 compute units delivering up to 40% higher gaming performance than the previous-generation AMD RDNA 3 architecture.
  • High-Performance Raytracing - With 3rd generation Raytracing Accelerators, AMD RDNA 4 is able to deliver over 2x the Raytracing throughput per compute unit when compared to our previous generation. Gamers with the latest AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series are ready for immersive gaming experiences with high-quality graphics, including realistic lighting, shadows, and reflections.
  • Supercharged AI Acceleration - 2nd Generation AI Accelerators received several enhancements, allowing AMD RDNA 4 to efficiently process advanced AI models much faster than what was possible with RDNA 3,4 through a combination of additional math pipelines for AI calculations, expanding the capabilities of the AI
  • Accelerator to support new emerging data types such as FP8, and support for inference optimization techniques such as structured sparsity. These changes deliver up to 8x INT8 throughput per AI accelerator (for sparse matrices) per compute unit vs the previous generation.
  • AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution Technology 4 (FSR 4) - AMD's new cutting-edge ML-powered upscaling technology delivers high-quality boosted frames under even the most demanding workloads, such as 4K gaming with maximum ray tracing settings and will be supported in over 30 games at launch.
  • Innovative suite of features through HYPR-RX - Gamers can instantly improve their experience by activating AMD HYPR-RX and the suite of features within AMD Software, including AMD Radeon Super Resolution, AMD Fluid Motion Frames 2.1, AMD Radeon Anti-Lag, and AMD Radeon Boost. These features can all be tailored to gamers' hardware and preferences within AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition to drive increased FPS, responsiveness and efficiency.
  • AI-Enhanced AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition Application - A new suite of software and resources designed to deliver an industry-leading AI user experience with AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series graphics cards. Keep your drivers and AI software up to date with the new Software Manager. Find the answers to your questions about all things AMD or create free and private text and images with AMD Chat. Discover, download and install new and exciting AMD-partnered AI applications with the App Portal, and leverage AI to improve software quality with the AMD Image Inspector.
  • Ready for Next-Generation Displays - AMD Radiance Display Engine supports the latest DisplayPort 2.1a and HDMI 2.1b connections, enabling ultra-high resolutions and refresh rates up to 8K 144 Hz, with 12-bit HDR and full REC2020 Color Space for incredible color accuracy. Paired with AMD FreeSync technology, gamers can enjoy tear-free, stutter-free gaming experiences on over 4000 compatible displays, including upcoming 4K 240 Hz and 8K 144 Hz DisplayPort 2.1 monitors.
ML-Powered AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (AMD FSR 4) Upgrade
  • Available exclusively on AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series graphics cards, AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition adds a new easy-to-use AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (AMD FSR 4) Upgrade feature that helps maximize performance at maximum quality in over 30 games at launch, with 75 coming later this year. AMD FSR 4 delivers a substantial image quality improvement over AMD FSR 3.1 upscaling, with the new ML-based algorithm helping to improve temporal stability, better preserve detail, and reduce ghosting.
  • Utilizing features already built into the AMD FidelityFX API added when game developers integrate AMD FSR 3.1 into their games, AMD FSR 4 enables an easy upgrade for supported FSR 3.1 games and can be combined with existing in-game AMD FSR 3.1 advanced frame-generation and AMD Radeon Anti-Lag 2 for ultra-smooth, ultra-responsive gaming at incredible frame rates on AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series graphics cards.
  • The new ML-accelerated AMD FSR 4 upscaling algorithm is trained using high-quality ground truth game data on AMD Instinct Accelerators and uses the hardware-accelerated FP8 Wave Matrix Multiply Accumulate (WMMA) feature of the AMD RDNA 4 architecture to ensure maximum upscaling quality while still providing a substantial game performance boost.
AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series Product Specifications
  • AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
    • 64 Compute Units
    • 16 GB GDDR6
    • 2.4 Game Clock (GHz)
    • Up to 3.0 Boost Clock (GHz)
    • 256-bit Memory Interface
    • 64 MB Infinity Cache
    • 304 W TBP
    • $599 Price (USD SEP)
  • AMD Radeon RX 9070
    • 56 Compute Units
    • 16 GB GDDR6
    • 2.1 Game Clock (GHz)
    • Up to 2.5 Boost Clock (GHz)
    • 256-bit Memory Interface
    • 64 MB Infinity Cache
    • 220 W TBP
    • $549 Price (USD SEP)
Pricing and Availability
AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series graphics cards are expected to be available from leading board partners including Acer, ASRock, ASUS, Gigabyte, PowerColor, Sapphire, Vastarmor, XFX and Yeston beginning March 6th, 2025. The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT has an SEP of $599 USD, while the AMD Radeon RX 9070 has an SEP of $549 USD.
Source: AMD
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187 Comments on AMD RDNA 4 and Radeon RX 9070 Series Unveiled: $549 & $599

#26
dir_d
MSRP is good now will the board partners screw us?
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#27
Camm
Power usage looks rather questionable for a card in this category tbh. And yes, 9700 needs to have a $100 difference.

Now to see if AMD has restrained AIB pricing to mostly around MSRP or not I guess.
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#28
dia6olo
Assuming the performance is close enough to expected when reviewed, I will also be buying the 9070 XT on release (if I can get one), on pricing I'll be happy to pay $650 for it.
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#29
TrionYT
Grab a 360w version SLAP 400W on there and +400 on the core clock and + 500-1000 on the memory, and there’s your 4090.
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#30
Assimilator
neatfeatguyI think it should be $499 to warrant the performance difference between the two
Don't say that, the rabid pro-AMD hordes will crawl out of the woodwork to accuse you of wanting the company to fail... even though it makes complete sense from a marketshare perspective.
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#31
Rungar
id like to see more benchamrks but think ill definitely get one (9070xt) at that price if possible.
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#32
wNotyarD
CammPower usage looks rather questionable for a card in this category tbh. And yes, 9700 needs to have a $100 difference.
The XT's 304W is in line with 5070Ti's 300W. If anything, the non-XT 220W seems low if compared to the projected 5070's 250W.
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#33
Space Lynx
Astronaut
dia6oloAssuming the performance is close enough to expected when reviewed, I will also be buying the 9070 XT on release (if I can get one), on pricing I'll be happy to pay $650 for it.
during the AMD live event they said partners will be making a 340 watt version as well, that will score even higher than stock 9070 xt. if that one comes in at $680-$720 I'd even be interested in that one.
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#34
gasolina
China price around 700$-800$ , i just grab the 6800xt + waterblock from china for 300$ which is okayish .
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#35
Dawora
Hecate919070XT $600 MSRP, $400 less than the 5070Ti with the fake MSRP.
I'm excited for benchmarks to see how it compares.
VAT+AIB so 940-1000 is just normal MSRP price for 5070Ti

Same hapens whit 9070XT it cost here in store 760 soon and some aib models +800 and couple over 900
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#37
Dawora
neatfeatguyI think the 9070 should come down to at least $529. Sure, a $20 difference might not be much, but $529 looks a lot nicer than $549....ideally I think it should be $499 to warrant the performance difference between the two. The XT, from the provided 1440p performance slides appears to be roughly 20% faster. I'd rather pay an extra $50 for 20% more performance.

I wonder how many cards will be around that $600 and $550 price range or if we're expected to see and pay for cards that are bloated in price at $100-300 over MSRP.
That makes u buy more expensive GPU when they are closer, so it will boost 9070XT sales..
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#38
wNotyarD
Divide OverflowVery eager to see W1zzard's review!
Conclusion: "No DLSS, no buy"
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#39
Space Lynx
Astronaut
Divide OverflowVery eager to see W1zzard's review!
especially the FSR4 section. I'm so curious if it ends up being as good as DLSS4 in terms of fidelity, this is the first time AMD has put special hardware on the card itself to match tensor cores/transformers
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#40
razaron
That's a great MSRP. There'll be bigger than $50 difference in real price, so that parts irrelevant.

Ctrl+f "stock", no hits... Guess we'll find out soon
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#41
Raptor_i
Thanks AMD, can't wait for TPU review.
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#42
dia6olo
Space Lynxduring the AMD live event they said partners will be making a 340 watt version as well, that will score even higher than stock 9070 xt. if that one comes in at $680-$720 I'd even be interested in that one.
Likewise, I'm happy to pay a little more for more performance as long as it makes sense in terms of performance per cost.
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#43
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wNotyarDConclusion: "No DLSS, no buy"
That's not what he writes though.
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#44
Onasi
Pricing the 9070 at just 50 less is sure one of the moves of all time. Speculation: there are two possible reasons - either the 9070XT was supposed to be significantly more expensive originally and the correction messed up the stack (likely) or AMD for some reason got a really bum deal on the N48 chips from TSMC and that’s what they NEED to break even on the card (less likely).
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#45
_roman_
I was a bit curious what my Powercolor 7800XT Hellhound can do with the game internal benchmarks of avatar / pandora.

Note: This is a gaming only windows 11 pro 24h2 installation with an offline user, nearly no settings. My main OS is my gentoo installation from 1996. I do install the windows update packages and amd gpu driver packages and windows software packages 90% from computerbase.de/downloads.

I deleted the amd gpu driver avatar setting, i set it to default. I set everything I could to default. I set the game settings to ultra.

I hardly run benchmarks. Maybe I made an error.

I think my Monitor ASUS PA278QV somehow limit the results to max 75 FPS. Freesync range is around, afaik, 38-75FPS. I usually played around 45 fps.

Internal benchmark / WHQD / monitor seems to limit to 75 fps / I saw after the reboot on the next screen this is with "upscaling".
It seems the game itself refuse to let me set it to higher fps values.


after reboot i checked again - monitor hard limit at 75 fps / whqd.



i disabled frame generation to OFF and run again the internal benchmark



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Low end hardware

Monitor: ASUS pa278qv whqd 75 fps / freesync / factory calibrated delta e smaller 1
Mainboard: ASUS Prime X670-P + myself added wifi module in the vertial slot
Graphic card: Powercolor 7800XT hellhound 16GB
Processor: ryzen 7600X
dram: 2x 32GiB hynix-a die - slightly tuned @ 6000mt/s
PSU: Enermax revolution D.F. 750W
hdd: KC3000 2tB -> mostly w11 pro 24h2 / 300GB gnu gentoo linux.
everything on the kc3000 2tb c:

-- paused windows updates / I only apply the windows update package usually once a month.



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amd gpu driver from computerbase.de/downloads



I set everything to default - which i usually do not do before running these benchmarks today



-- default very bad idea - I deleted teh pandora game profile - i will not play this anymore - i finished that game 2-3 weeks ago. two game profiles left for frostpunk and the long dark. global tuning set the button to default.



-- just for information.



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Note: Graphic cards are usually not tested on low end mainboards with entry level processors. ryzen 7600x should be 9800x3d. Dram could be much faster.
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#46
veleciraptor
Very good price if the test results are correct. I was waiting 699 USD but it is 100 dolar cheaper.
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#47
wNotyarD
AssimilatorThat's not what he writes though.
I know it's not, but it became kind of a meme the ever present "No DLSS" at the cons of everything non-NVIDIA. Not to mention the "wonder if Radeon dGPUs will still be around" line.
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#48
Hecate91
DaworaVAT+AIB so 940-1000 is just normal MSRP price for 5070Ti

Same hapens whit 9070XT it cost here in store 760 soon and some aib models +800 and couple over 900
A $1000 price isn't normal at all for a midrange card, nvidia could increase supply but have no reason to when gaming is less than 10% of their revenue.
$760-800 is more than I'd pay but somewhat more tolerable than $1000. The Powercolor Reaper and some other cards should be close to MSRP.
AssimilatorThat's not what he writes though.
That is what he writes in a nutshell, completely ignoring DLSS being a proprietary feature.
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#49
Gooigi's Ex
$599 for the XT? Day one purchase
$549 for the non-XT? Too damn high

not gonna, I was expecting worse but this is the best outcome
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#50
john_
Expecting to read many "DOA" from Nvidia trolls on the internet and see even more videos about how fantastic, amazing, wonderful DLSS 4 is from people like Tim.

This series of cards from AMD seems to have almost everything. Good performance for raster and RT, excellent compute, great upscaling and Frame Generation, prices that are much more consumer friendly (if they don't end up fake as Nvidia's), no burn connectors.
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